Home Depot has confirmed that its payment data systems have been breached, potentially impacting customers using payment cards at its U.S. and Canadian stores since April. Find out the latest details.
Security firms McAfee and Symantec have joined the Cyber Threat Alliance, which was launched by Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks in May as a way to share threat intelligence.
In the aftermath of news of the hacking of a HealthCare.gov test server, security experts and politicians are assessing the seriousness of the attack and lessons that can be learned from it.
Amidst a year of high-profile and costly data breaches, what can organizations be doing to help ensure they aren't the next victims? Charley Chell of CA Technologies discusses new authentication solutions.
Salesforce.com, a cloud-based customer relationship management provider, warns that malware known as Dyre is targeting certain customers. The company sees no evidence that any users have been impacted.
Home Depot has already been hit with a class action lawsuit stemming from a suspected data breach. While one legal expert portrays the lawsuit as premature, another says the filing was made because it's highly likely the breach will be confirmed.
While some experts say JPMorgan Chase may have been targeted by some sort of cyber-attack, others warn that jumping to conclusions about a possible breach and the actors behind the alleged attack could cause significant harm to the industry.
This week saw news of several high-profile data breaches, some confirmed and some still being investigated. The latest infographic from DataBreachToday takes a look at the week's top incidents.
While massive batches of stolen payment cards continue to flood cybercrime marketplaces, better bank controls are helping blunt related fraud. But addressing underlying problems may still take years.
Federal officials say hackers uploaded malware on a test server for the Obamacare insurance exchange website HealthCare.gov in July. But no consumer data was breached during the intrusion.
In the wake of recent POS breaches, like the one suspected at Home Depot, forensics experts say more banks are taking proactive steps to help merchant clients mitigate their risk of cyber-attacks.
Enterprises need to think beyond malware, breaches and insider threats when assessing information security. Keeping hardware up and running - available - is a crucial aspect of securing essential data.
Goodwill Industries International says in an update about a breach affecting about 330 of its stores that approximately 868,000 payment cards were exposed. It also identifies the malware used to compromise a third-party vendor's systems.
Some security experts say a thriving celebrity-photo-theft subculture has long been hacking iCloud, employing techniques that bypass strong passwords and Apple's two-factor authentication system.
Goodwill Industries International has confirmed that a breach of a card processor's systems, which involved malware, affected customers' payment data at more than 330 of its stores in 20 states.
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