In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including the exposure of member passwords on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers website and the sentencing of a former hospital employee for selling patient information.
Apparent online outages at PNC, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo are likely linked to suspected earlier attacks that hit Bank of America and Chase. What do these latest incidents mean for other institutions?
With so much hype and confusion around cybersecurity, falsely claiming an attack can have an impact on organizations trying to safeguard their digital assets.
Banking institutions can expect more cyberattacks, including threats from nation-states, as the U.S. elections draw near. So they must take adequate security steps - and clearly explain them to their customers.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including employees being fired after viewing health information inappropriately, and a health exchange facing a "graffiti" hack.
Two Romanians pleaded guilty to breaching point-of-sale systems at Subway and other U.S. retailers. Experts say the breach exposes common security vulnerabilities that remain a concern.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including Florida company BlueToad claiming to be the source of leaked Apple device IDs.
The UK Information Commissioner's Office has fined the Scottish Borders Council £250,000 after hundreds of former employees' pension records were found in a supermarket recycling bin.
Visa's new end-to-end encryption service aims to eliminate payment card data at the merchant level. Eduardo Perez of Visa's Risk Group discusses the security value of this emerging solution.
A Twitter posting by an individual claiming to be from the hacktivist collective Anonymous claimed it targeted GoDaddy on Sept. 10, but it wasn't until the following day the company determined its computers were not breached.
An individual claiming to be part of Anonymous, the hacktivist group that has targeted big business and government, seems to have taken aim at small businesses by claiming to have disrupted website host GoDaddy.com.
You have one shot to get it right. How should organizations prepare properly for a data breach? Experian's Michael Bruemmer outlines four steps to help ensure a smart approach to breach preparation.
Owners of Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch devices whose unique device identifiers might have been exposed in a breach would face little, if any, potential harm as a result.
In this week's breach roundup, read about a court ruling in a case involving a breach at shoe retailer DSW and an assessment of the potential impact of an alleged breach of an FBI computer.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation denies that one of its agent's laptops was compromised by Anonymous-affiliated hacktivist group Antisec, which claims credit for such a breach. The group says the breach gave it access to 12 million Apple unique device identifier numbers.
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