Advanced, ever-evolving threats call for security solutions vendors to counter with equally advanced and sophisticated solutions. JD Sherry of Trend Micro discusses new strategic alliances and product sets dedicated to creating new measures of threat defense.
Neiman Marcus has revised downward its estimate of the number of payment cards compromised in its breach last year. Company CEO Karen Katz offers new details.
Two critical steps that banking institutions need to take in 2014 to help prevent fraud are implementing big data analytics and adopting far more sophisticated customer and employee authentication, says Gartner analyst Avivah Litan.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a credit card breach affecting customers of a Canadian online health and beauty products store and a breach at a British grocery store chain's website.
Because of concerns of possible National Security Agency meddling with its cryptographic standards, NIST has issued a draft report proposing revisions in how it develops cryptographic standards.
In a groundbreaking effort to boost security, HSBC Bank USA is now requiring its retail banking customers to use dual-factor authentication for certain sensitive online banking transactions, says LuAnne Kingston, senior vice president.
Lawsuits that card issuers have filed against Target to help recoup expenses associated with the retailer's breach aren't likely to reap big rewards, two legal experts say. But they are sending a strong message.
The Pentagon continues to work to fix network vulnerabilities nearly a half-year after attackers - reportedly from Iran - breached the Navy Marine Corps Intranet.
A government agency in Puerto Rico has levied a multi-million dollar HIPAA penalty against a health insurer for a 2013 breach involving a mailing error that affected only about 13,000 beneficiaries.
A law firm has developed a free iPhone app, Data Breach 411, to help organizations with breach notification compliance. The app provides links to 46 state data breach notification laws, relevant federal statutes and other resources.
Forbes and Kickstarter have fallen victim to apparently unrelated cyber-attacks that have compromised user accounts. The companies are urging users to reset their passwords and monitor for any suspicious activity.
Bankers and retailers are hotly debating who should be liable for losses and expenses associated with the breach at Target. See how our readers weighed in on the issues involved.
Advanced threat protection provider Bit9 announced Feb. 13 that it has merged with Carbon Black, which sells an endpoint sensor designed to speed up incident response.
Website security firm CloudFlare is warning organizations worldwide to be on the lookout for an increase in larger DDoS attacks. But these NTP attacks are far less sophisticated than the earlier DDoS attacks that targeted U.S. banks.
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