A former South Carolina state employee has been arrested for allegedly transferring personal information about more than 228,000 Medicaid recipients to his personal e-mail account.
Rep. Dan Lungren introduced an amendment to his onetime bipartisan cybersecurity bill that won only the backing of fellow Republicans with Democratic members of the House Homeland Security Committee objecting to the changes.
To expose security flaws in Iran's banking system, one hacker took an extreme step: He stole details on 3 million debit accounts. One fraud expert warns that similar hacktivist attacks are likely worldwide.
One of the biggest mistakes companies make after a major data breach is communicating with the news media, consumers and others before all the facts are clear, says attorney Ronald Raether.
What's the best strategy for communications after a data breach, like the one suffered by Global Payments Inc.? Bob Carr, CEO of Heartland Payment Systems, discusses what to say in the weeks following a breach.
Gartner analyst Avivah Litan questions whether the security vulnerabilities that led to a breach that exposed 1.5 million cards may be linked to long-standing security issues at Global Payments.
Is there an ideal message a senior executive can deliver amidst breach response? The recent breach of Global Payments Inc. and the subsequent CEO's response to the incident raise this question.
According to our new survey, more than half of banking institutions expect an increase in fraud-fighting resources this year. But how are they investing those resources? The answers may surprise you.
To respond to a security incident, an organization must first be aware of it. But too many intrusions go undetected, says Rob Lee of SANS Institute. That's the first problem that needs to be addressed.
What might the Global Payments breach investigation entail? Dave Ostertag of Verizon's Investigative Response unit describes a forensics investigation - how long it can take and what it might reveal.
One problem tracking IT security employment is the dearth of information. Even the most trustworthy organization in collecting employment data, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, furnishes infosec data it cautions aren't reliable.
With a court decision handed down in Texas, a lingering lawsuit against Heartland Payment Systems and two acquiring banks, KeyBank and Heartland Bank, appears to finally have been put to rest.
The hacktivist collective Anonymous has gone after two technology lobbying groups with distributed denial-of-service attacks to protest cyberthreat information sharing legislation before Congress.
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