When it comes to breach planning and response, well-intentioned organizations often go wrong. Experian Data Breach Resolution VP Michael Bruemmer tells where they fail and offers advice on how to do these important jobs right.
A new application for Apple mobile devices is designed to help healthcare organizations assess whether an incident is a breach that must be reported to federal authorities. Find out how it works.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including Canadian voters' information that's missing and the online exposure of New York lawmakers' Social Security numbers.
RSA CISO Eddie Schwartz says he spends more time talking to other chief information security officers and IT security practitioners today than he did a decade ago, when he held the same job at Nationwide Insurance Co.
Two unencrypted USB keys carrying copies of information about voters in Ontario, Canada, are missing, potentially exposing information on between 1.4 million and 2.4 million individuals, according to Elections Ontario officials.
Too many organizations that experience a data breach
fail to reveal information on the cause of the incident so that consumers can take appropriate action, one consumer advocacy group contends.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including Anonymous stealing 2.4 million e-mails from Syria and social media site Formspring resetting all passwords after a breach.
Eight class action lawsuits filed in the wake of a 2011 data breach involving TRICARE, the military health program, and affecting nearly 5 million individuals have been consolidated into one case that will be handled by the U.S District Court in Washington, D.C.
A new guide has been released by the Information Commissioner's Office to help small and mid-sized businesses improve their IT security. Which threats should most concern them, and how can they use the guide?
British Columbia Institute of Technology has notified students, faculty and staff that a computer server containing personal medical information of 12,680 individuals was accessed by an unauthorized party.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a stolen, unencrypted hospital laptop and an Australian phone provider leaking information on hundreds of thousands of customers.
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