How much card fraud can issuers link to the breach at Global Payments? Some sources suggest as many as 7 million payment cards may have been exposed, but how can they be so sure?
A laptop stolen from an employee of Accretive Health last year was not encrypted "due to the oversight of an individual IT employee," the company says in a 29-page comment letter sent to Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn. That employee subsequently was fired, the company reports.
Security firm Imperva had the opportunity to watch a hacktivist attack play out. Learn what the three phases of the attack were and how it was stopped.
Banks and credit unions say losses linked to card-skimming are a growing concern. Why are skimming attacks successful, and what can be done to thwart the threats?
A University of North Carolina at Charlotte investigation into two breach incidents that were first reported Feb. 15 determined that 350,000 Social Security numbers, plus financial account numbers, were exposed.
News spread May 9 that information about more than 55,000 Twitter accounts had been leaked. But in a May 10 statement, the company said it was not breached, and the source of the leaked information remains unclear.
Card skimming at ATM vestibule access doors is a source of increasing concern for financial institutions and law enforcement agencies. What new security measures should institutions take?
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a Florida sheriff's office being hacked and a Houston hospital breach that may have led to the filing of fraudulent federal income tax returns.
In Georgia, a man has pleaded guilty for his role in a $1.3 million phishing scheme. How did Bank of America and Chase help law enforcement agencies crack this alleged international fraud ring?
Post-breach, organizations must have a full grasp on what happened - and convey that message consistently. Too often, that's not the case, says attorney Ronald Raether. What steps must organizations take?
Hacktivists associated with Anonymous have reportedly released sensitive information from the Lake County Sheriff's Office in Florida, including the names and personal phone numbers of SWAT team members.
Even with security information and event management systems, organizations labor to separate normal log data from actionable events, according to the latest Log and Event Management Survey from the SANS Institute.
The United Kingdom's Serious Organised Crime Agency, which recently took down 36 websites selling stolen credit and debit card data, was hit May 3 by a distributed denial-of-service attack.
States worry as much about responding to the hazards presented by cybersecurity attacks as they do hurricanes, according to a new report issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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