A senior White House official says the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014, which a Senate committee passed earlier this month, needs to have its privacy and civil liberties protection provisions strengthened to win presidential support.
An alleged hacker based in the United Kingdom has been indicted for a third time. The latest charges allege he infiltrated computers at several U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services.
A physician who formerly owned several Texas hospitals is facing years in federal prison after being convicted by a jury of several counts of healthcare fraud and identity theft. A related case is still pending.
Are Hamas' cyber capabilities as potent as its kinetic weaponry? Israeli cybersecurity providers consider the impact of cyber-attacks on their businesses and the nation.
The Department of Health and Human Services inspector general has criticized HHS for failing to implement security controls on the system that provides computerized access to physical facilities and computer networks.
A House panel, at a July 24 hearing, considered whether the Federal Trade Commission is overstepping its regulatory authority over data security and relying on questionable information in its investigations. Find out what witnesses had to say.
The Massachusetts attorney general has reached a $150,000 HIPAA settlement with a Rhode Island hospital in the wake of a 2012 data breach that affected 14,000 patients, most of whom were from Massachusetts.
Google and Microsoft met with European regulators in Brussels July 24 to discuss their compliance with the "right to be forgotten" ruling and whether it should apply to all of their search engine sites - and not just those in Europe.
A California court has given final approval for a settlement in a consolidated class action lawsuit against the insurer Health Net related to a 2011 breach that affected about 2 million individuals. Find out the terms of the settlement.
Leading this week's industry news roundup, Quantum Corp. is integrating its StorNext scale-out storage with the FireEye network forensics platform, while CARD.com is partnering with IDology to help prevent card fraud.
Google's move to adopt a single, unified privacy policy in 2012 continues to have legal repercussions, with the Italian Data Protection Agency demanding changes, and a judge clearing the way for a U.S. class action lawsuit to move forward.
Point-of-sale retail breaches are the rage, but they are just one cyber-crime trend on the mind of RSA researcher Uri Fleyder. What are the malware and mobile threats that organizations should monitor?
Big data has been the recent buzz in security circles, but what are organizations missing by overlooking the power of "small data?" Verizon's Jay Jacobs discusses how to get the most from data analytics.
Attackers increasingly focus on software vulnerabilities in what application security expert Anthony Lim calls "the invisible onslaught." How can the CISO exert more control over software development?
The 9/11 Commission, in its 10th anniversary report, cautions Americans and the U.S. government to treat cyberthreats more seriously than they did terrorist threats in the days and weeks before Sept. 11, 2001.
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