President Obama ordered increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks to cripple Iranian nuclear enrichment centrifuges as part of a major expansion of America's first persistent use of cyberweapons, according to a new report.
Why are breaches in the payments arena so difficult to trace and investigate? Verizon breach investigator Dave Ostertag offers insights about the forensics complexities of a processor breach.
Flame is designed to carry out cyber espionage and steal valuable information, including but not limited to computer display contents, information about targeted systems, stored files, contact data and audio conversations.
What are the top four malware-related issues that all organizations should focus on this year? Andreas Baumhof of ThreatMetrix shares insights based on five years of malware analysis.
An attack on the Thrift Savings Plan exposed personal details about more than 120,000 federal pension participants. Learn why one expert says the breach could have serious long-term implications.
The proliferation of botnets and malware in cyberspace threatens to undermine the efficiencies, innovation and economic growth of the Internet and diminishes the trust and confidence of online users.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a hacker attack against a federal retirement savings plan and a University of Nebraska breach affecting 650,000 individuals.
The Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet has introduced an enhanced version of its free security vulnerability reporting framework designed to ease the sharing of breach information.
The University of Nebraska has reported a breach involving unauthorized access to a database containing information on more than 650,000 students and others.
One measure of an incident's impact is dollars lost of fraud. But the "soft" costs - loss of reputation and productivity - are the ones that most get the attention of Terry Austin of Guardian Analytics.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including Anonymous hacking a Justice Department database and a missing laptop potentially exposing information on 17,000 patients.
The hack of online billing provider WHMCS may have exposed 500,000 payment cards. Experts say the incident highlights the persistent risks third parties pose in cardholder data security.
A Massachusetts hospital that reported a 2010 breach involving lost backup tapes with information on 800,000 individuals has agreed to pay a $475,000 penalty to settle a state attorney general's HIPAA lawsuit.
The federal tally of individuals affected by major healthcare information breaches since September 2009 now exceeds 20 million. But two recently reported major incidents have yet to make the list.
Why are socially engineered schemes causing so many headaches? Symantec's new Internet Security Threat Report shows attacks are growing. Here's a list of Symantec's recommendations to thwart risks.
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