Banking and government institutions, and other organizations that employ Juniper Networks gear, are being actively targeted after the company warned that it discovered that someone added a backdoor to the firmware in 2012. Who's responsible?
Security expert Chris Bowen explains why mitigating emerging threats to mobile devices and applications should be a top health data breach prevention priority for 2016.
Privacy and security expert Rebecca Herold outlines three common HIPAA compliance missteps and offers advice on bolstering security and minimizing the risk of breaches.
Understanding the promise of user behavior analytics is one thing. Deploying them to detect and respond to threats is quite another. Bert Rankin of Fortscale offers tips on practical application of the latest UBA solutions.
The rising profile and increasingly complex nature of cyberattacks was a major development in 2015. What are the key threats for security practitioners to be wary of in the year ahead? FireEye CTO APAC Bryce Boland shares insights.
Too many recent high-profile breaches resulted from attackers using legitimate user credentials to infiltrate critical systems. Fortscale's Bert Rankin tells how user behavior analytics help organizations catch attackers after the breach.
The HHS Office for Civil Rights will dramatically ramp up its HIPAA enforcement activities in 2016, fueled by a financial infusion from recent fines in HIPAA cases, predicts privacy attorney David Holtzman of CyngergisTek, a former OCR senior adviser.
In the wake of Juniper Networks finding "unauthorized code" in its firewall firmware that could be used to remotely access devices and encrypted communications, Cisco is reviewing its own code for signs of tampering. Will other vendors follow suit?
Giving the fired Sanders aide the benefit of the doubt that he wasn't trying to steal Clinton campaign secrets to benefit the Vermont senator's quest for the White House, was Josh Uretsky justified in accessing the rival's data to conduct his own investigation?
Legislative expert Samantha Burch of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society offers an in-depth analysis of healthcare provisions in the recently enacted Cybersecurity Act of 2015 and describes how the law could prove especially helpful to smaller organizations.
You made this mess, now you'll clean it up. That's the security message of the Federal Trade Commission's settlement with Oracle over its failure to update or eliminate older, insecure - and actively targeted - versions of Java.
President Obama has signed legislation to incentivize businesses to share cyber threat information with the federal government. On Dec. 18, both houses of Congress passed the measure as part of a $1.1 trillion spending package.
Cybersecurity is becoming an issue in the U.S. presidential campaign, finally. That's good news because it's critical in our day-to-day lives. But are the candidates doing the issue justice in the way they address it?
The FBI has arrested three men on charges that they participated in a hacking and identity theft scheme designed to fuel spam campaigns, including the insider-enabled theft of account details for 24.5 million Comcast customers.
To guard against health data breaches, healthcare organizations must demand more proof that their business associates are safeguarding patient data and mitigating related risks, says privacy and security expert Daniel Schroeder.
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