Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust is appealing a £325,000 fine for a breach involving hard drives containing healthcare information on tens of thousands of individuals that were sold on the Internet.
The time to select a breach resolution vendor is before you need one, stresses security specialist Robert Peterson. So what questions should organizations ask when choosing a vendor?
Why are breaches in the payments arena so difficult to trace and investigate? Verizon breach investigator Dave Ostertag offers insights about the forensics complexities of a processor breach.
An attack on the Thrift Savings Plan exposed personal details about more than 120,000 federal pension participants. Learn why one expert says the breach could have serious long-term implications.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a hacker attack against a federal retirement savings plan and a University of Nebraska breach affecting 650,000 individuals.
What are the top four malware-related issues that all organizations should focus on this year? Andreas Baumhof of ThreatMetrix shares insights based on five years of malware analysis.
Israel is being blamed - or, perhaps, taking credit - for the creation of Flame, the sophisticated cyberspyware that has targeted organizations in the Middle East, especially its mortal enemy, the government of Iran.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including Anonymous hacking a Justice Department database and a missing laptop potentially exposing information on 17,000 patients.
Imagine a computer network that can fool intruders into seeing configurations that in reality don't exist, making it hard for them to invade the system. That's what Scott DeLoach is trying to figure out how to do.
Hacktivist attacks will increase, and researcher Gregory Nowak says organizations can take proactive steps to reduce exposure and protect brand reputation. Why, then, are many organizations failing?
The UK Information Commissioner's Office has fined Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust £90,000 for a breach involving patient lists repeatedly faxed to the wrong recipient.
From mobile and the cloud to DDoS attacks and risks surrounding big data, what should banks and credit unions do now to mitigate exposure? Gartner's Anton Chuvakin offers his top recommendations.
Global Payments has been less than forthcoming with information about its data breach. How could this lack of transparency hurt the processor, and what's the lesson for others?
What's the best strategy for communications after a data breach, like the one suffered by Global Payments Inc.? Bob Carr, CEO of Heartland Payment Systems, discusses what to say in the weeks following a breach.
New alerts from Visa and MasterCard suggest the breach at Global Payments dates to January 2011, an exposure window significantly longer than originally reported. What are the implications for card issuers?
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