NoMoreRack.com says there's no evidence to suggest its payments system has been breached, in spite of reports alleging compromised cards have been traced back to some of its retail sales.
The Target retail POS breach is the most talked-about incident in recent memory - and it was entirely preventable with available security solutions, says Adam Tegg CEO of Wontok Solutions.
In the face of evolving threats and actors, traditional ID security strategies have been proven inadequate, says Entrust's David Rockvam. It's time for a security evolution.
Target has responded to allegations that it failed to heed an early malware alert before its massive data breach. Experts analyze the very latest developments.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a breach at Statista, an online statistics company in Germany, and an extortion attempt at Johns Hopkins University.
In a preliminary step toward enactment of a new EU data protection law, the European Parliament on March 12 approved a draft proposal for a comprehensive overhaul of the EU's 1995 data protection directive.
The EC-Council, which offers certifications and training programs for information security practitioners, is recovering from what it describes as a DNS poisoning attack after its domain registrar was compromised.
Recent retail breaches have exposed security vulnerabilities, highlighting the importance of shifting to much stronger user authentication as well as verification of the authenticity of transactions.
Attackers likely purchased malware in underground "cybercrime-as-a-service" markets to use in recent credit card breaches, including the Target Corp. attack, a new report from McAfee Labs asserts. Adam Wosotowsky explains the report's findings.
One key factor in efforts to reduce reliance on passwords for authentication will be international acceptance of the FIDO Alliance's soon-to-be released protocol for advanced authentication, says Michael Barrett, the alliance's president.
Recent data breaches, such as the ones suffered by Target Corp. and Neiman Marcus, may have been detected sooner if retailers had been sharing transactional pattern and behavioral information about their customers, says Mike Braatz of ACI Worldwide.
Congress heard testimony from cybersecurity experts this week about the steps that should be taken to minimize the risk of breaches of the payments system. Learn what Troy Leach of the PCI Council and others had to say.
Despite certain evidence that suggests a possible breach at Sally Beauty Supply, the retailer maintains that a recent cyber-attack against its point-of-sale network did not expose card data.
The UK Information Commissioner's Office has fined the British Pregnancy Advice Service £200,000 after a hacker gained access to personal details for about 10,000 of its clients.
MasterCard and Visa have announced the formation of a cross-industry group that will work on improving U.S. payment security by advancing migration to chip cards as well as point-to-point encryption.
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