Johns Hopkins Health System has agreed to a $190 million settlement in a privacy violation case that involved a physician using a pen-like camera to secretly photograph female patients. Learn what the organization is doing to prevent other privacy incidents.
In 2011, the FFIEC issued guidance requiring financial institutions to beef up their online authentication and fraud prevention efforts. Yet today, account takeover is more rampant than ever. Professional cybercrime crews easily circumvent common anti-fraud measures to steal millions from banks and credit...
A controversial U.K. "emergency" surveillance bill has become law, just seven days after being introduced to Parliament. But a privacy rights group has already promised to challenge the new law in court.
The Obama administration urges Congress to update U.S. anti-hacking laws to crack down on fraudsters operating abroad, disrupt spam and DDoS botnets, and arrest "botnet for hire" service providers.
The Obama administration withholds judgment on the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act until the bill is scheduled for a Senate floor vote. But no one is saying if or when that will happen.
Prosecutors in Texas have taken the rare move of pursuing criminal charges against an individual for alleged HIPAA violations. The case is a reminder that health workers can face prison time and hefty monetary fines for wrongful disclosures of PHI.
A controversial U.K. data-retention bill has been passed by the House of Commons after just one day of debate. But a House of Lords committee sees problems with the proposed fast-track legislation.
Federal authorities say the successful prosecution of a member of an international cybercrime ring proves progress is being made in shuttering ATM cash-out schemes. But some experts say processors and prepaid cards will continue to be targeted by attackers.
If New York State is illustrative of a national trend, hacking poses a greater threat to businesses and other organizations than other types of data breaches.
Choice Escrow is seeking a bench review of a recent appellate court ruling, which favored its former bank in an ACH fraud dispute. The firm argues the court set a bad precedent for future disputes by limiting Uniform Commercial Code protections.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology should use the cryptographic community to help vet the advice it gets from the National Security Agency when creating cryptography guidance, a panel of prominent experts recommends.
Three Chinese nationals seeking to make "big bucks" broke into the computers of Boeing and other military contractors, stealing secrets on transport aircraft, a U.S. criminal complaint says. Read how they allegedly did it.
Microsoft absolves dynamic DNS provider No-IP of being complicit in a malware campaign that infected millions of PCs and apologies to the 1.8 million customers who experienced outages.
With the Senate Intelligence Committee overwhelmingly approving the Cybersecurity Information Security Management Act, common wisdom dictates the bill will head directly to the Senate floor. Not so fast.
The Senate Intelligence Committee, by a 12 to 3 vote, has approved the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014, which its sponsors say would encourage the federal government and private sector to voluntarily share cyberthreat information.
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