Heathrow, the U.K.'s largest airport, has been fined by the country's privacy watchdog for a series of data security missteps that led to a USB memory drive containing highly sensitive information being lost by an airport security trainer on a London city street, where it was found by a passerby.
Google blames a bug in an API for its Google+ social networking service for exposing personal details of about 500,000 users' accounts, but says it doesn't believe the information was misused. The company was forced to acknowledge the March incident after it was reported by The Wall Street Journal.
As more companies move away from passwords toward behavioral biometrics, they face new challenges, says Rajiv Dholakia, vice president, products at Nok Nok Labs. "There are no standards as such in this area on how the information is collected, how it's stored and how it's processed," he says.
U.S. and U.K. government agencies have said they have "no reason to doubt" strong denials issued by Amazon and Apple that hardware hackers had successfully implanted tiny chips in their servers that provided a backdoor for Chinese spies.
Barriers to getting into the business email compromise - aka CEO fraud - game continue to fall, with security vendor Digital Shadows finding that compromised email accounts for a company's finance department can typically be purchased via the black market for just $150 to $500.
Although the passage by Congress of the Support for Patients and Communities Act this week is an important step in the nation's battle against the opioid drug addiction crisis, it lacks a critical privacy provision, says Geisinger Health CIO John Kravitz, who analyzes the implications.
The healthcare sector needs to continue upping its ante in cybersecurity to prevent potentially catastrophic "doomsday" events that could devastate regional healthcare systems, says Erik Decker, CISO of the University of Chicago Medicine. He's helping draft a guide to mitigating five key cyber threats.
The British and Dutch governments have issued a strong rebuke to the Russian government over an ongoing series of "Fancy Bear" hack attacks that they say were launched by Russia's military intelligence agency Russian Main Intelligence Directorate, aka the GRU.
The U.S. Justice Department unsealed a criminal indictment charging seven alleged Russian GRU military intelligence agency officers with hacking multiple organizations, including the World Anti-Doping Agency, as part of APT 28 - aka Fancy Bear - cyber espionage operations.
Did the Chinese government pull off one of the most secretive hardware hacks of all time? That's what information security experts are pondering after a Bloomberg report described an espionage operation that purportedly planted a tiny spying chip on widely distributed server motherboards.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of the latest developments in Facebook's massive data breach and expert analysis of the potential for nation-state interference in the U.S. midterm elections.
A gang of North Korean government hackers, known as APT38, has stolen more than $100 million from banks in Asia and Africa via fraudulent SWIFT transfers, cybersecurity firm FireEye warns. Separately, the U.S. government says North Korea is also behind serious ATM malware cash-out attacks.
Ambulatory surgery centers face a variety of difficult cybersecurity challenges, says Tom Hui, CEO of software vendor HSTpathways, who offers insights on how to address them.
At three of the world's largest information security events in 2018, Information Security Media Group's team of editors conducted about 200 video interviews with industry thought leaders, who provided timely insights on important topics. Here's your guide to those interviews.
Healthcare organizations often fail to address five fundamental elements of a solid cybersecurity program, says security expert Mark Johnson of the consultancy LBMC Information Security, who formerly was CISO at Vanderbilt University and Medical Center.
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