What are the distinct phases of the fraud lifecycle, and how can banking institutions intervene at each stage to prevent losses? Daniel Ingevaldson of Easy Solutions offers fraud-fighting tips.
Noting that its integrity has been questioned, NIST has launched a formal review on how it develops cryptographic standards over concerns that the NSA might have corrupted its encryption guidance.
The good news is: U.S. banks have learned valuable security lessons from defending against recent distributed-denial-of-service attacks. The bad news? DDoS has evolved into new and improved assaults.
The settlement of a class action lawsuit against AvMed, a health plan company, stemming from a 2009 data breach, is significant because it awards payments to those who were not victims of identity theft.
The Army Research Laboratory is collaborating with five research universities on a $23 million, 5-year initiative to develop what's being characterized as a new science to detect, model and mitigate cyber-attacks.
A secure alert system, which delivers messages in several ways, is helping staff members at a home healthcare agency to quickly communicate about personal safety and patient care issues.
A House panel has approved a bill aimed at strengthening the Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity workforce, adding a provision for a tuition-for-work fellowship.
The White House says the conversation between the president and business leaders focused on how to encourage adoption of the cybersecurity framework. Participants also discussed the need for framework adoption by suppliers.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a report from Adobe that a recent breach affected 38 million customer accounts, not 2.9 million as originally reported.
At a Congressional hearing Oct. 30, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius addressed several security issues related to the Obamacare rollout, including testing of the HealthCare.gov website.
Prosecutors have charged a resident of Great Britain with hacking thousands of U.S. government computers, including those at the U.S. Army and a number of federal agencies, to steal massive amounts of confidential information.
Purdue University's Eugene Spafford discusses the ethical issues that have been brought to the forefront by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks of classified details on a number of top-secret government surveillance programs.
The House Homeland Security Committee will vote Oct. 29 on a bill that's aimed at strengthening the cybersecurity workforce at the Department of Homeland Security by taking three key steps.
The HIPAA Omnibus enforcement date has come and gone. What areas have covered entities overlooked, and what must they address as top priorities? David Finn of Symantec shares insight.
It's time for healthcare organizations to ensure they have done what they already should be doing, says Finn, health information...
The Healthcare.gov website and a related data services hub are working again after a weekend outage. Meanwhile, HHS officials are preparing for more Congressional hearings on the Obamacare site's technical issues.
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