Hackers apparently stole $31 million from accounts that banks keep at Russia's central bank in a series of cyberattacks this year, according to several news reports. The news comes as the country's security service also claims to have fought off broader attacks against the financial services industry.
Visa and MasterCard have pushed back their EMV fraud liability shift date for U.S. pay-at-the-pump gas terminals from October 2017 to October 2020. They made the right decision, given the relatively low rates of card fraud at gas pumps.
Cyber espionage and other increasingly sophisticated nation-state cyberattacks will escalate into what amounts to "cyberwar" in 2017, predicts security expert Michael Bruemmer of Experian Data Breach Resolution.
Many members of Britain's Parliament regularly use technology - and tech firms - as a scapegoat for intractable social issues or failed government policies. Does the country's new mass surveillance law now enshrine technology scapegoating into law?
Cyberattacks waged by organized crime groups are simultaneously targeting a wider array of industries worldwide, which is why cross-industry threat information sharing is more critical than ever, says Brian Engle, executive director of the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center.
Britain has enacted a new mass surveillance law - the Investigatory Powers Act - which will allow the government to demand backdoors from tech companies to intercept communications. But at what cost?
The Internet Archive, a pioneering 20-petabyte digital repository, is raising funds to replicate its data in Canada. The group's founder fears that the election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president portends an uncertain privacy rights future.
Federal regulators have issued a warning to healthcare sector organizations about a phishing email campaign that pretends to be compliance audit communications from the nation's top HIPAA enforcer. But who's really sending out these emails?
Score one for preparation: In the wake of a ransomware attack that infected 900 workstations, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency says it's restoring affected systems, vowing to not give the attackers a single bitcoin of their ransom demand.
The U.S. Navy is set to begin notifying more than 130,000 current and former sailors that their personal information was "accessed by unknown individuals" after a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services employee lost a laptop.
IBM will pay an unspecified amount to the Australian government for the vendor's role in the technical problems related to the recent online census, which dented public confidence in large-scale IT projects.
A lack of incident response planning often leads to an unanticipated series of serious consequences for organizations that experience data breaches, Joey Johnson, CISO of Premise Health, says in this video interview.
A group of respected computer scientists has caused a stir by calling for an audit of U.S. presidential election results in three states, to disprove that hackers somehow altered the results.
Cybercriminals broke into the payment card processing system used by the Madison Square Garden Co., owner of Radio City Music Hall and other iconic entertainment venues, harvesting payment card details for nearly a year.
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