In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a guilty plea from a hacker who coordinated a scheme that phished personal information from U.S. federal government employees.
While more organizations have breach response plans in place, many are not testing these plans - or are doing a subpar job of conducting tabletop exercises, security experts say.
Although restaurant chain P.F. Chang's has not yet confirmed a breach, several researchers say they believe the chain suffered a malware attack similar to those that compromised Target, Neiman Marcus and Sally Beauty.
Michael Bruemmer of Experian Breach Resolution sizes up key trends for the year ahead, discusses the impact of "breach fatigue" and predicts a surge in the adoption of cyber-insurance.
In recent days, three companies experienced distributed-denial-of-service attacks that resulted in significant website downtime. Find out how the organizations are mitigating the impact of the cyber-attacks.
Restaurant chain P.F. Chang's China Bistro says it's investigating a possible payments breach that has been linked to fraud. Card issuers say the compromise could date back to March.
A second economic espionage campaign has been tied to a Chinese military hacking team. But does that attribution help businesses, or just highlight security firms battling for government cybersecurity spending?
When NIST issued "Guidelines on Cell Phone Forensics" in May 2007, Apple's introduction of the iPhone was a month away. Seven years later, NIST is revising its guidance and giving it a new moniker, "Guidelines on Mobile Device Forensics."
The British government aims to increase uptake of five essential security controls at U.K. businesses, backed by third-party annual audits and a badge of compliance. Many government contractors must comply.
U.S. Forces Korea is notifying 16,000 employees that their personally identifiable information was potentially stolen from two compromised databases. Find out what information was exposed.
In the wake of the Heartbleed flaw, a researcher finds new weaknesses in OpenSSL that could be exploited to launch man-in-the-middle attacks, distributed-denial-of-service attacks and remote-code execution on millions of sites.
Although breach prevention may be on the minds of more CEOs and boards of directors in the wake of recent incidents, getting their buy-in for funding still requires educating them on the risks that could have an impact on the business.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a hacker being charged with infiltrating computer networks across the U.S. to obtain sensitive information.
A proposed UK computer crime bill would increase hacking penalties and criminalize cybercrime attacks that impact the economy, environment or national security. Proving related charges in court, however, could be difficult.
Poor Internet hygiene, not increased cybercrime, is what's really to blame for the increased botnet traffic the online world is battling, say cybersecurity experts Tom Kellermann and Rod Rasmussen.
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