Some employees at organizations that use outsourced payroll provider ADP have been hit with tax return fraud. ADP blames customers for failing to secure the unique portal registration codes it issues.
Following a massive data leak, Qatar National Bank has confirmed that its systems may have been hacked. A group with Turkish ties has claimed credit for the attack and reportedly threatened to release information from a second bank hack.
The House of Representatives has unanimously approved the Email Privacy Act, which would require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before compelling third-party service providers to surrender their customers' email and text content. The measure now goes to the Senate, where it has bipartisan support.
A HIPAA-related legal dispute between a Chicago-area health information exchange and its key IT vendor, which is going out of business, spotlights several important privacy and security issues.
For the second time in two years, federal regulators have slapped New York Presbyterian Hospital with a multi-million dollar penalty as part of a HIPAA settlement. The latest incident involved filming of patients without their permission.
U.S. merchants of all sizes - not just smaller retailers - have seen significant increases in chargebacks in the wake of the Oct. 1, 2015, EMV fraud liability shift date, Liz Garner, vice president of the Merchant Advisory Group, contends in this in-depth interview.
A federal court's recent rejection of a motion filed by health insurer Anthem Inc. in its attempt to fight a class-action lawsuit in the wake of its massive data breach is important because it upholds the privacy rights of breach victims, says attorney Steven Teppler.
Enacting legislation to compel tech companies to help law enforcement decrypt data on mobile devices would diminish America's standing as a moral leader in the world, a nation looked up to by billions of people, even with our many flaws.
A data security incident at the American College of Cardiology, which potentially affected nearly 98,000 patients at 1,400 medical institutions, points to the need to refrain from using real patient data in test environments as well as the importance of properly securing those environments.
By a 28-0 vote, the House Judiciary Committee has approved legislation to require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before compelling third-party providers, including those offering cloud services, to surrender their customers' email and text content.
Recent data breaches in Washington state and Florida illustrate that government health agencies can be just as vulnerable to security incidents involving sloppy breach prevention or detection practices as healthcare organizations in the private sector.
Everyone knows Apple refused to comply with a court order to assist the FBI in bypassing security features built into an iPhone that was issued to a San Bernardino shooter. The Justice Department then dramatically said it found another way to access the iPhone, thus deferring crucial underlying questions, which have...
A court has approved settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed by employees of Sony Pictures in the wake of its massive 2014 breach. But some legal experts say the consumer protections provided in the settlement do not go much beyond what the company should have routinely provided to victims in the wake of a breach.
New guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology could help make it easier and less expensive for organizations to encrypt and decrypt some forms of data, including Social Security and credit card numbers.
Health insurer Anthem, the victim of a massive hacker attack, failed in its effort to persuade a court to allow it to inspect certain customers' computers to help it fight a class-action lawsuit tied to the breach. Why did Anthem make the move? And what issues does it raise?
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