It's the everyday attacks, not the Flames, that are most likely to put an organization's IT infrastructure in jeopardy. Here is advice for how organizations can staff up and improve cybersecurity.
Emory Healthcare in Atlanta faces a class action lawsuit seeking more than $200 million in damages following a breach involving 10 missing unencrypted backup disks.
Big data isn't about size, says Gartner's Neil MacDonald. It's much bigger: Big data is about volume, velocity, variety and complexity, and requires new approaches on how information is used to secure digital assets.
Developing a culture of responsibility could go a long way in helping business, not-for-profits and governments secure their organizations' information resources.
IT security executives face knowledge gaps, but they also struggle with the time they can commit to continuing education. So, Carnegie Mellon University came up with a new program to meet their needs.
How can organizations mitigate increasing cybersecurity risks posed by hacktivist groups and organized crime? Verizon's Chris Porter offers recommendations.
Four recent breach incidents, including one affecting LinkedIn, have put the spotlight on the effectiveness of hashing. Why is hashing increasingly ineffective at protecting online passwords?
Federal authorities are holding workshops to gather ideas for how to build a National Healthcare Cybersecurity Response Framework aimed at protecting critical infrastructure, says Deborah Kobza, who's coordinating the effort.
FTC settlement agreements in two cases involving data exposed on peer-to-peer networks offer a reminder of the risks involved in using the networks. Social Security numbers, healthcare information and other personal details were exposed.
LinkedIn, the social network that's investigating the pilfering of nearly 6.5 million of its members' passwords, has neither a chief information officer nor chief information security officer.
If you'd like to avoid being subjected to a federally mandated biennial data security audit for the next 20 years, you might want to make sure no one in your organization is using peer-to-peer networks.
In many ways, conducting a risk assessment for mobile devices is similar to other IT risk assessments. But there are notable differences, says consultant Jeff Brandt.
With an increase in state-sponsored hacking, Google says it will alert a select subset of its Gmail e-mail users when it believes their accounts may have been targeted.
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