President Obama faces a dilemma in deciding whether to prohibit the National Security Agency from tinkering with encryption as one way to collect intelligence data from adversaries who threaten to harm America.
From new malware to the Target breach, cyber-attacks reached an all-time high in 2013, says Cisco's Annual Security Report. Cyberthreat expert Levi Gundert tells how organizations can regain the advantage in 2014.
Investigations and lawsuits are piling up for breached retailers Target Corp. and Neiman Marcus. Meanwhile, card-issuing banks say fraud patterns may reveal additional breaches at other well-known brands.
Nearly a week after news broke about the Neiman Marcus data breach, the retailer's CEO today issued her first statement addressing the breach, which compromised customer credit and debit cards.
In the wake of the Target and Neiman Marcus data breaches, Steve Kenneally of the American Bankers Association calls for greater security and accountability throughout the U.S. payments system.
First Target, then Neiman Marcus; who's next? And while banking institutions await the next attack, how should they respond to customers' anxious questions about this latest round of high-profile retail data breaches?
The Syrian Electronic Army claimed to have compromised the official Microsoft blog a little over a week after the group said it breached the Twitter account of Microsoft-owned Skype.
Target Corp. is providing $5 million to help fund an effort to educate consumers about the risks of cybercrime. Meanwhile, a group of House Democrats had called for a hearing about the retailer's breach, while two senators have demanded details.
For the second time in a month, a major U.S. retail chain acknowledges being the victim of an external data breach. Other retailers also may have been struck by attackers, one expert says.
Target Corp.'s revelation that personal information about up to 70 million customers was breached in a recent malware attack raises new questions about Target's security practices and risks to consumers.
Target now says personally identifiable information for up to 70 million of its customers was likely exposed in the December breach that also compromised some 40 million U.S. debit and credit cards.
Photo messaging application Snapchat has implemented several security improvements and has apologized for the breach that recently affected 4.6 million of its users.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a third-party billing error that exposed patient information at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Georgia Tech researchers are working on a way to profile devices along the supply chain to identify whether they've been compromised, says Paul Royal, associate director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center.
UK-based insurance firm Staysure has notified more than 93,000 customers that their personal information, including encrypted payment card details, were compromised following a cyber-attack against its systems in October 2013.
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