Verisign, operator of two of the 13 root name servers that route traffic on the Internet, has revealed that outsiders attacked its computer network several times in 2010, but top management did not learn of the incidents until September 2011.
Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight has fallen victim to a security breach affecting up to 40,000 customers' contact details, such as e-mail addresses and telephone numbers.
The hacking group Anonymous Brazil has targeted the websites of several of Brazil's top financial institutions, including Banco Bradesco and Banco do Brasil, with distributed denial-of-service attacks, leaving the sites in the dark, the Associated Press reports.
Organizations that have experienced a breach report that three lessons they learned were to limit the amount of personal information collected, limit sharing data with third parties and limit the amount of data stored, a new survey shows.
Nine state attorneys general are demanding that Internet retailer Zappos provide details on the company's recent data breach that affected 24 million individuals.
Web-hosting provider DreamHost reset all FTP/shell passwords for its customers after a hacker gained access to certain unencrypted passwords. The company hosts more than 1 million domains.
Zappos.com and its parent company Amazon.com face a class action lawsuit stemming from a recent data breach that affected more than 24 million customers.
The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, a non-profit consultancy that experienced a health information breach, learned eight important lessons from the experience, says CEO Micky Tripathi.
Online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos.com has issued an e-mail alert to more than 24 million customers regarding a newly-discovered data breach of an internal network.
Chinese police have detained four people and punished eight after the personal information of 6 million users was leaked following a data breach of the China Software Developer Network, the country's largest programmers' website.
Notifying patients about a healthcare information breach requires a "difficult balancing act" by entities to ensure that risks are not exaggerated, says attorney Robert Belfort, an expert in HIPAA compliance, fraud and abuse.
A breach is a disaster, says business continuity specialist Ken Schroeder. So organizing an effective breach-response team does not require a reinvention of the wheel. What it does require is a holistic approach.
Global organizations easily can be confused by the myriad privacy laws in different regions of the world. But U.S. privacy attorney Miriam Wugmeister has advice to help navigate these tricky waters.
Wells Fargo & Co. may have committed an inadvertent data breach when it responded to subpoenas requesting financial information about some of its customers. What happened, and who is impacted?
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