NIST is revising its 3-year-old smart-grid guidance to address technological and policy changes that have made the power grid more susceptible to vulnerabilities and threatened utility customers' privacy.
A lawsuit filed against a former employee at an Atlanta pediatric healthcare system calls attention to the need to detect and mitigate insider threats, including those related to departing workers.
What are the distinct phases of the fraud lifecycle, and how can banking institutions intervene at each stage to prevent losses? Daniel Ingevaldson of Easy Solutions offers fraud-fighting tips.
Noting that its integrity has been questioned, NIST has launched a formal review on how it develops cryptographic standards over concerns that the NSA might have corrupted its encryption guidance.
The good news is: U.S. banks have learned valuable security lessons from defending against recent distributed-denial-of-service attacks. The bad news? DDoS has evolved into new and improved assaults.
The settlement of a class action lawsuit against AvMed, a health plan company, stemming from a 2009 data breach, is significant because it awards payments to those who were not victims of identity theft.
For years, researchers have studied malicious insider threats. But how can organizations protect themselves from insiders who make a mistake or are taken advantage of in a way that puts the organization at risk?
The Army Research Laboratory is collaborating with five research universities on a $23 million, 5-year initiative to develop what's being characterized as a new science to detect, model and mitigate cyber-attacks.
A secure alert system, which delivers messages in several ways, is helping staff members at a home healthcare agency to quickly communicate about personal safety and patient care issues.
A House panel has approved a bill aimed at strengthening the Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity workforce, adding a provision for a tuition-for-work fellowship.
The White House says the conversation between the president and business leaders focused on how to encourage adoption of the cybersecurity framework. Participants also discussed the need for framework adoption by suppliers.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a report from Adobe that a recent breach affected 38 million customer accounts, not 2.9 million as originally reported.
At a Congressional hearing Oct. 30, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius addressed several security issues related to the Obamacare rollout, including testing of the HealthCare.gov website.
The good news is: U.S. banks have learned valuable security lessons from defending against recent distributed-denial-of-service attacks. The bad news? DDoS has evolved into new and improved assaults.
Senior leaders in business and government are buying in to the need for more cybersecurity investments as well as threat-intelligence sharing, new research shows. But why are they still struggling to hire the right security pros?
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