Checkers Drive-In Restaurants says 102 of its 900 U.S. locations were hit with point-of-sale malware, with one California restaurant infected over a more than two-year period starting in December 2015. Checkers is the latest victim in a string of attacks against retailers, restaurants and hotel chains.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the "blame game" in the wake of a ransomware attack against the city of Baltimore. Also featured: Discussions of cyberthreats in the financial services sector and open source security concerns.
Infosecurity Europe returns to London June 4-6, featuring more than 230 sessions over three days covering a range of topics, including application security, automation, data protection, risk management, incident response and threat analysis. Here's a preview of 11 hot sessions.
Private equity firm Insight Partners has announced it's acquiring threat intelligence specialist Recorded Future in a $780 million all-cash deal, capping a week of significant deal-making activity in the global information security vendor market. Find out what other deals were announced.
A security researcher has found a significant flaw all versions of Docker, an open source container platform, that can give attackers read and write access to all the files within the host system, allowing them to execute arbitrary code. As of now, there's no patch available.
Anyone looking for clarity on whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller believes President Trump is innocent of committing any crimes came away empty-handed from Mueller's press conference Wednesday, when he declined to exonerate the president. But Mueller again accused Russia of attempted election interference.
News aggregator Flipboard has initiated a systemwide password reset affecting as many as 150 million users following two database intrusions. Flipboard doesn't collect ID or financial information, but users could be at risk if they have reused their Flipboard password on other services.
One of the earliest ransomware victims in the healthcare sector has a strong message for organizations that believe they won't be targeted: Get prepared for an attack - otherwise you risk a devastating impact.
On the sixth stop of a multi-city tour, ISMG and Sonatype visited San Francisco for an engaging discussion on how to mitigate risks introduced by open source software. Sonatype CMO Matt Howard discusses the relevance and value of this application security conversation.
Enterprises today have many digital ways of interacting with their customers - and therefore just as many ways for authenticating those users and transactions. Sesh Venkataraman of CA Technologies explains the business value of omnichannel authentication solutions.
Cloud-based electronic health records vendor Medical Informatics Engineering has signed a $900,000 settlement with 16 state attorneys general in a case involving the same 2015 data breach that was at the center of a recent $100,000 settlement with a federal regulator.
Chinese telecom giant Huawei has taken another legal step in its effort to overturn a ban on U.S. government agencies buying its telecom equipment and services.
One year after Europe's tough new GDPR privacy law went into full effect, authorities in Britain have seen the number of annual data breach notifications more than quadruple. Meanwhile, the number of data protection complaints filed by Europeans has doubled.
Federal regulators have issued new guidance clarifying when a business associate can be held directly liable for compliance with the HIPAA privacy, security and breach notification rules. Why is there still so much confusion?
Reports that the city of Baltimore was attacked using a vulnerability in Windows originally stockpiled by the National Security Agency have triggered a blame game. Cybersecurity watchers are debating attacker culpability, patch management prowess and zero-day stockpiling.
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