For the second time in a month, a major U.S. retail chain acknowledges being the victim of an external data breach. Other retailers also may have been struck by attackers, one expert says.
While news of the NSA's data collection caught many off guard, it's just another example of the U.S. culture of surveillance, says sociologist William Staples, author of the book "Everyday Surveillance."
The healthcare industry plans to test its cybersecurity preparedness and attack response coordination through two mock cyber-attack exercises this year. HITRUST will coordinate the drills.
Target Corp.'s revelation that personal information about up to 70 million customers was breached in a recent malware attack raises new questions about Target's security practices and risks to consumers.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has introduced a national data breach notification bill for the fifth time, but its chances of passage remain slim.
Five significant trends, including the mobile revolution and the use of big data, will influence the future of cybersecurity, says Allan Friedman, co-author of a new book on the subject.
Target now says personally identifiable information for up to 70 million of its customers was likely exposed in the December breach that also compromised some 40 million U.S. debit and credit cards.
Photo messaging application Snapchat has implemented several security improvements and has apologized for the breach that recently affected 4.6 million of its users.
In 2013, financial Trojans targeted more than 1,400 institutions in 88 countries - and these attacks are only growing. Symantec's Vikram Thakur tells how organizations can combat attackers in 2014.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a third-party billing error that exposed patient information at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
As the elected auditor of public accounts in Kentucky, Adam Edelen is on a campaign of sorts to get the Bluegrass State to become the 47th state to enact a data breach notification law.
Georgia Tech researchers are working on a way to profile devices along the supply chain to identify whether they've been compromised, says Paul Royal, associate director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center.
UK-based insurance firm Staysure has notified more than 93,000 customers that their personal information, including encrypted payment card details, were compromised following a cyber-attack against its systems in October 2013.
Training that's designed to help workers avoid clicking on links from spear-phishing e-mails may be ineffective because employees often fail to read training materials, says Eric Johnson, a Vanderbilt University professor who's co-author of a new study on the subject.
We may never really know who or what is to blame for the Target breach that exposed as many as 40 million U.S. debit and credit cards, but there definitely is no shortage of theories from our readers.
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