In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a phishing e-mail affecting U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission employees and a cruise line accidentally e-mailing sensitive passenger information.
The UK Information Commissioner's Office has released a new security guide for small and midsized businesses. Simon Rice of the ICO discusses the guide and how to use it to avoid being breached.
The recent settlement between Village View Escrow and Professional Business Bank could set a new course for legal disputes involving account takeover, say the attorneys involved in the fraud case.
Hacktivist attacks are on the rise. So how should organizations respond? ISF researcher Gregory Nowak offers unique advice about the role communications plays when hacktivist threats emerge.
A new malware intelligence system created by Georgia Tech Research Institute aims to create an information sharing center. How will the system work and how can organizations participate? GTRI's Chris Smoak furnishes the answers.
Two members of the hacktivist group LulzSec have pleaded guilty in the UK to conspiring to attack high-profile targets, including the U.S. Senate and Sony, last year.
Marcus Ranum isn't shy about saying online authentication methods are outdated and insecure. Passwords will get breached, but organizations can do more to protect their users and online databases.
The UK Information Commissioner's Office has fined Belfast Health and Social Care Trust £225,000 for a breach incident related to sensitive patient information that was left at a closed hospital.
LinkedIn's failure to comply with long standing industry standard encryption protocols jeopardized its users' PII, and diminished the value of the services, the class action federal lawsuit filed in northern California says.
Brokers and insurers have upped their marketing efforts to get enterprises to purchase cyber insurance, even though policies could be risky for sellers and buyers. See 10 considerations you should mull before buying cyber insurance.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York is notifying 880 patients that some of their personal information may have been exposed when it was inadvertently embedded in PowerPoint charts posted on two websites.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including eHarmony hashed passwords being exposed and Last.fm warning users to reset their passwords after its website was hacked.
The Global Payments data breach has expanded, and now may include the exposure of personal data linked to merchant applicants. But what does this latest news mean? Industry experts offer insights.
Federal authorities have charged a Dutch hacker for the role he played in an elaborate scheme that targeted POS systems and networks to steal credit card details that were later sold on websites for fraudulent purposes.
Global Payments Inc., the breached payments processor, now says the scope of its self-discovered data breach may be broader than initially reported and involve personal data collected from merchant customers.
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