In hopes of getting stalled national data breach notification legislation moving in Congress, two senators have asked Home Depot and Apple Inc. to brief lawmakers on the circumstances behind their recent breaches.
Google says just 2 percent of the recent dump of nearly 5 million credentials to Russian cybercrime forums contained valid Gmail username and password combinations. But anyone who reused the same passwords on other sites remains at risk from hackers.
Amidst a year of high-profile and costly data breaches, what can organizations be doing to help ensure they aren't the next victims? Charley Chell of CA Technologies discusses new authentication solutions.
Security experts are advising Google users to change their passwords in the wake of almost 5 million usernames and passwords surfacing on Russian cybercrime forums. But some of the stolen data may be several years old.
Fraud Ecosystem
In June this year the "Ronald Reagan" batch of credit cards (potentially those stolen from PF Chang's) joined the "Barbarossa" batch from Target in becoming publicly available for purchase. Featured on the popular Rescator card shop (stolen card data marketplace), with advanced features like money...
Public sector organizations need to better understand the driving forces, priorities and procedures within the organizations they "protect", but equally as important is that the private sector organizations reciprocate and understand the how, what and why of the law enforcement/public body process.
This mutual...
Once the now-delayed HIPAA compliance audits resume, federal regulators will be conducting more on-site audits and fewer remote desk audits of covered entities and business associates than originally planned.
Now that Home Depot has confirmed its payments breach, industry experts weigh the possibility that the home-improvement giant's attack is linked to earlier breaches at Target, Sally Beauty and P.F. Chang's.
Goodwill Industries International has confirmed the third-party vendor that was compromised in a data breach that impacted about 330 of its stores, resulting in 868,000 card details being exposed.
The EU is expected to approve in October an updated data protection law that spells out uniform breach notification requirements, security expert Jacky Wagner explains. The measure would apply to any business that targets Europeans.
Home Depot has confirmed that its payment data systems have been breached, potentially impacting customers using payment cards at its U.S. and Canadian stores since April. Find out the latest details.
Security firms McAfee and Symantec have joined the Cyber Threat Alliance, which was launched by Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks in May as a way to share threat intelligence.
Bartell Hotels is notifying customers of a data breach affecting five of its seven San Diego area hotels. The breach stemmed from the compromise of the hotels' payment card processing systems.
In the aftermath of news of the hacking of a HealthCare.gov test server, security experts and politicians are assessing the seriousness of the attack and lessons that can be learned from it.
Amidst a year of high-profile and costly data breaches, what can organizations be doing to help ensure they aren't the next victims? Charley Chell of CA Technologies discusses new authentication solutions.
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