Retailers say tokenization and encryption are critical to ensuring payment card data security. Aite's Natalie Reinelt describes how merchants will use layers of security to protect data at the point of capture.
The Massachusetts Attorney General has fined Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston as a result of a 2012 breach involving a stolen unencrypted laptop. Find out the size of the penalty.
Microsoft has issued an emergency fix for a vulnerability in Windows Kerberos that is being exploited via in-the-wild attacks. Attackers can leverage the flaw to gain all-access rights to anything inside an Active Directory Domain, experts warn.
Technically savvy armed robbers who stole an encrypted laptop and smart phone from a physician who works at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston demanded that the doctor reveal the devices' passwords and encryption keys as well.
Microsoft has issued a patch to correct a critical vulnerability in Schannel, which encrypts transactions on most Windows platforms. The bug is "concerning" for organizations running the service, some experts say, comparing it to the Heartbleed flaw.
The new director of Britain's eavesdropping agency, GCHQ, has blasted U.S. technology firms, arguing that - intentionally or not - they're "the command-and-control networks of choice for terrorists and criminals."
Steph Warren, CIO of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, provides an overview of the VA's cybersecurity landscape and reveals what security issue keeps him up at night.
Drawing on networking protocols designed to support NASA's interplanetary missions, two researchers have created a networking system that's designed to transmit information securely and reliably in even the worst conditions, such as in an Ebola hot zone.
FBI Director James Comey says he wants Congress to update a 20-year-old law to give law enforcement authorities access to the encrypted data of suspected criminals.
Security experts urge organizations to disable support for SSL on clients and servers because of flaws in the cryptographic protocol that could be used to impersonate website users and decrypt HTTPS traffic.
An important lesson to learn from the massive JPMorgan Chase breach is that banks can't just focus on protecting card data and online banking accounts; they also must protect their customers' personally identifiable information.
Cedars-Sinai Health System says approximately 33,000 patients were affected by a data breach involving the theft of a laptop computer from an employee's home. Find out what information is at risk.
Moving to Amazon Web Services (AWS) can offload significant IT resource and cost burdens. However, you can't offload the ultimate responsibility for the security, privacy, and compliance of your data.
This whitepaper delves into an approach to migrate sensitive data into AWS environments while ensuring...
Home Depot says an estimated 56 million payment cards were exposed in a data breach at its U.S. and Canadian stores. The retailer says an investigation revealed the breach involved custom-built malware not used in other cyber-attacks.
It's hard to believe, but a year has already passed since the deadline for the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule went into place. Although the language is set, the full impact is still playing out.
Recent changes within the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and its leadership have energized enforcement and changed what...
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