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Evidence is mounting that the breaches reported by Target and Neiman Marcus are part of a wider assault against U.S. retailers. Meanwhile, payment card-issuing institutions say they're taking proactive steps to keep fraud at bay.
Technology is the biggest challenge to ethics and compliance in organizations today, says Deloitte's Keith Darcy. "We have the capacity to do things before we ever consider the ethical consequences ..."
Dan Clements of IntelCrawler, the research firm that claims it traced malware apparently used in the Target breach and other retailer attacks to a 17-year-old hacker in Russia, offers an exclusive, in-depth explanation of his company's findings.
President Obama faces a dilemma in deciding whether to prohibit the National Security Agency from tinkering with encryption as one way to collect intelligence data from adversaries who threaten to harm America.
In a speech revealing new limits on the way intelligence agencies collect telephone metadata, President Obama also announced a comprehensive review of how government and business are confronting the challenges inherent in big data.
2014 is going to be a critical year for data breach preparation and response, according to Michael Bruemmer of Experian. What are the key breach-related developments that security leaders must watch?
From new malware to the Target breach, cyber-attacks reached an all-time high in 2013, says Cisco's Annual Security Report. Cyberthreat expert Levi Gundert tells how organizations can regain the advantage in 2014.
Don't miss the Jan. 24 deadline for participating in HealthcareInfoSecurity's third annual survey examining the priorities and challenges of security leaders at hospitals, clinics and health plans.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has named a new chief information officer and chief operating officer in the wake of the agency's troubled HealthCare.gov launch last year.
Investigations and lawsuits are piling up for breached retailers Target Corp. and Neiman Marcus. Meanwhile, card-issuing banks say fraud patterns may reveal additional breaches at other well-known brands.
A bill that backers say would fortify the IT security of the nation's critical infrastructure and government by codifying, strengthening and providing oversight of the mission of the DHS has cleared its first hurdle.
The House of Representatives approved its second bill within a week that contains provisions for bolstering HealthCare.gov security. Passage came the same day as two more Congressional hearings on HealthCare.gov security.
Nearly a week after news broke about the Neiman Marcus data breach, the retailer's CEO today issued her first statement addressing the breach, which compromised customer credit and debit cards.
Because of increasing cyber-attacks against government agencies, the inspector general says it's crucial for the State Department to address the continuing weaknesses in its information security program.
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