New details emerging about a breach involving a former Morgan Stanley employee illustrate how a case of inappropriate access to data can blossom into something much more serious. The case shines a spotlight on the urgent need to mitigate insider threats.
The recent discovery of stacks of paper patient records in dumpsters at an Ohio recycling center offers an important reminder: Any effort to safeguard patient information must include not just high-tech breach prevention measures but also proper policies on the disposal of paper records.
Two new malware reports - one from security researchers at technology giant Cisco, another from cybersecurity firm FireEye - demonstrate how developers continue to refine malicious code to maximize information-stealing and extortion potential.
Passage of cyberthreat information-sharing legislation could hinge on how the measure is presented to Congress, and its fate could be tied to a massive omnibus appropriations bill to fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal 2016.
A federal audit of three California Medi-Cal (Medicaid) managed care organizations found dozens of "high risk" security control vulnerabilities. But security experts say the problems identified, unfortunately, are common throughout the healthcare sector.
A former U.S. State Department employee has pleaded guilty to running a "sextortion" scheme from the U.S. Embassy in London that was designed to compel young women to share sexually explicit photographs, according to the FBI.
A former member of the NullCrew hacking group has pleaded guilty to participating in attacks against several organizations, including Bell Canada, Comcast and the U.K.'s Ministry of Defense, which the gang claimed to have exploited via SQL injection flaws.
Wyndham Worldwide Corp. has agreed to a settlement with the FTC over charges stemming from the hotel chain's three security breaches in 2008 and 2009 that exposed 619,000 payment cards and other personal information.
The Data Security Act of 2015, approved by the House Financial Services Committee, would create a national data breach notification requirement and spell out data security standards businesses must follow, usurping 47 state laws.
Another healthcare organization has disclosed that the FBI has detected a cyberattack on its computer network exposing information about its patients. Security experts expect more alerts from the FBI and call on organizations to ramp up breach detection.
Australian police have raided the Sydney home of cryptographer and entrepreneur Craig Wright, who's been named as being the suspected creator of the bitcoin cryptocurrency. Has the real "Satoshi Nakamoto" finally been unmasked?
He'd spent nearly 15 years in information security, then realized we needed to change our fundamental approach. Why did Art Gilliland, CEO of Skyport Systems, bet his career on this notion? And how is it paying off?
Today's security threats may be considered "advanced" by some, but ThreatSTOP founder and CEO Tom Byrnes believes many organizations are living in the medieval times of cybersecurity. How can they avoid slipping into the Dark Ages?
Hundreds of millions of PCs are at risk of being remotely exploited, after a security researcher released proof-of-concept exploit code for separate, newly discovered flaws in software preinstalled on systems by Dell, Lenovo and Toshiba.
President Obama's remarks urging "high-tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice" are being interpreted by some to mean that government and Silicon Valley should collaborate to create a backdoor to circumvent encryption on devices used by terrorists.
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