Cloud services are being adopted increasingly by organizations. But with adoption comes increased concern, says Symantec's Francis deSouza. How can organizations deploy cloud security to protect their data?
Four Republican healthcare leaders in Congress are questioning whether the Medicare and Medicaid programs are doing enough to crack down on shell companies submitting fraudulent claims.
Companies should hire a breach resolution vendor before they experience a data breach to help ensure rapid, appropriate response, says security consultant Robert Peterson.
Should you accept a Facebook friend request from your boss? And if you don't accept the invitation, could that decision possibly hurt your career? I asked our advisers, who offer thoughtful insights.
A quick corporate overview of Global Payments Inc., the Atlanta-based payments processor involved in the payment card data breach that impacted an estimated 1.5 million customer accounts.
Has there been an undisclosed data breach? In the wake of the latest revelations by Global Payments Inc., some fraud analysts wonder whether they might be seeing signs of a separate breach.
Howard University Hospital is notifying more than 34,000 patients about a data breach involving the theft of a former contractor's unencrypted personal laptop computer from a vehicle.
The Global Payments data breach raises the question: How can organizations detect and respond to such intrusions? Verizon offers answers in its 2011 Investigative Response Caseload Review.
The proposed rules for Stage 2 of the HITECH Act electronic health record incentive program "are going to bring a lot of new and challenging privacy and security issues to the forefront," says attorney Adam Greene.
Gartner Analyst Avivah Litan, one of the first fraud experts to report the Global Payments Inc. data breach, says the latest revelations raise more questions than answers about the incident's impact.
As news of the Global Payments Inc. data breach spread, impacted organizations, including the major payment card brands, released statements about the incident. Following are the latest news releases.
In its second formal statement about its data breach, payments processor Global Payments Inc. says this incident is confined to North America and involves fewer than 1.5 million payment cards.
A new committee will update and create policy measures designed to protect personal health information that's shared using a dozen health information exchanges in New York that are being linked in a statewide exchange.
"We are making significant progress in defining and rectifying the event," says Paul R. Garcia, CEO of Global Payments Inc., discussing the breach he says may have exposed 1.5 million payment cards.
IPv6, known to some as the new Internet, is architected to be safer than IPv4, but that doesn't mean organizations shouldn't take steps to assure the security in Internet Protocol version 6, American Registry for Internet Numbers' John Curran says.
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