The Massachusetts Attorney General has fined Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston as a result of a 2012 breach involving a stolen unencrypted laptop. Find out the size of the penalty.
Retailers cannot avoid innovation. Yet, cybercriminals thrive when retailers innovate. What, then, can retailers do to stop cybercriminals from breaching their defenses? Here are three key questions to answer.
The director of the National Security Agency, Navy Admiral Michael Rogers, says he expects to see adversaries launch a cyber-attack in the next few years aimed at severely damaging America's critical infrastructure.
Cybersecurity specialists need to learn to think like an adversary in order to develop sound defense strategies, says Greg Shannon, chief scientist at the CERT Division of Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute.
Two government watchdog agencies say information security weaknesses at the Department of Veterans Affairs make the VA systems vulnerable to ID theft and potential attacks by foreign entities.
Technically savvy armed robbers who stole an encrypted laptop and smart phone from a physician who works at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston demanded that the doctor reveal the devices' passwords and encryption keys as well.
From an intrusion at the U.S. Postal Service to the NSA leaks by former contractor Edward Snowden, this infographic offers a look at the top data breaches affecting government agencies.
Staples has confirmed that its retail point-of-sale systems were compromised earlier this year by malware-wielding attackers. Learn what two card issuers say about fraud tied to the breach.
The hacking of the State Department's unclassified systems, revealed over the weekend, and a similar incident involving a White House network, unveiled last month, are linked, an official says.
The State Department shuttered its unclassified e-mail system over the weekend as a result of a suspected hack, reportedly the same breach that the White House last month said hit its computer system.
A Connecticut Supreme Court ruling paving the way for a case involving accusations of negligence stemming from an alleged violation of HIPAA privacy standards could potentially have an impact on data breach cases, the plaintiff's attorney says.
The loss of a server at a Visionworks optical wear retail store in Maryland offers a reminder not only of the importance of encryption but also the value of good inventory management and data disposal practices.
Organizations in all business sectors should take a series of steps to guard against "visual hacking," a low-tech method used to capture sensitive, confidential and private information for unauthorized use.
Microsoft has issued a patch to correct a critical vulnerability in Schannel, which encrypts transactions on most Windows platforms. The bug is "concerning" for organizations running the service, some experts say, comparing it to the Heartbleed flaw.
FireEye is warning Apple users about a flaw in which downloaded malicious apps can replace genuine iOS apps, an exploit the security firm is dubbing the "Masque Attack." Experts offer insights on mitigating the threat.
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