Authorities say the suspect from suburban Philadelphia obtained users' credentials to the compromised computers and sold access to the breached computer networks, as well as other access credentials.
LinkedIn's failure to comply with long standing industry standard encryption protocols jeopardized its users' PII, and diminished the value of the services, the class action federal lawsuit filed in northern California says.
A lingering legal dispute over a corporate account takeover incident at escrow company Village View has finally come to a close. Find out more about the details of the case and the settlement.
Gartner's Peter Firstbrook, to illustrate the vulnerability of IT systems, cites research that pegs at about 400 days the average time a targeted virus remains undetected on a computer. And, he says, that doesn't speak highly of the current offerings from security vendors.
Law enforcement is not revealing details about the POS breach that hit Penn Station, but one investigator says the number of locations affected by the attack will continue to grow.
A New York-based credit union says it inadvertently exposed debit details and some personal information about cardholders after a non-secure file was accidentally made accessible via its website.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York is notifying 880 patients that some of their personal information may have been exposed when it was inadvertently embedded in PowerPoint charts posted on two websites.
LinkedIn contends it had on staff world-class security experts when nearly 6.5 million members' hashed passwords were pilfered, although the social media company has neither a chief information officer nor chief information security officer.
Howard Schmidt takes exception with aspects of our blog that addresses his position in the White House hierarchy and relationship with agencies' chief information security officers. Here's his response.
The Global Payments data breach has expanded, and now may include the exposure of personal data linked to merchant applicants. But what does this latest news mean? Industry experts offer insights.
Brokers and insurers have upped their marketing efforts to get enterprises to purchase cyber insurance, even though policies could be risky for sellers and buyers. See 10 considerations you should mull before buying cyber insurance.
Federal authorities have charged a Dutch hacker for the role he played in an elaborate scheme that targeted POS systems and networks to steal credit card details that were later sold on websites for fraudulent purposes.
Global Payments Inc., the breached payments processor, now says the scope of its self-discovered data breach may be broader than initially reported and involve personal data collected from merchant customers.
Federal action to set aside broadband spectrum for wireless patient monitoring systems has the potential to improve treatment without increasing risks, says medical device expert Dale Nordenberg, M.D.
It's the everyday attacks, not the Flames, that are most likely to put an organization's IT infrastructure in jeopardy. Here is advice for how organizations can staff up and improve cybersecurity.
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