LinkedIn, the social network that's investigating the pilfering of nearly 6.5 million of its members' passwords, has neither a chief information officer nor chief information security officer.
Restaurant chain Penn Station says debit and credit card details may have been exposed in a breach that targeted 43 franchised locations. But what was the nature of the scheme?
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust is appealing a £325,000 fine for a breach involving hard drives containing healthcare information on tens of thousands of individuals that were sold on the Internet.
Israel is being blamed - or, perhaps, taking credit - for the creation of Flame, the sophisticated cyberspyware that has targeted organizations in the Middle East, especially its mortal enemy, the government of Iran.
The UK Information Commissioner's Office has fined Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust £90,000 for a breach involving patient lists repeatedly faxed to the wrong recipient.
From mobile and the cloud to DDoS attacks and risks surrounding big data, what should banks and credit unions do now to mitigate exposure? Gartner's Anton Chuvakin offers his top recommendations.
Global Payments has been less than forthcoming with information about its data breach. How could this lack of transparency hurt the processor, and what's the lesson for others?
New advisories from Visa suggest that payments processor Global Payments Inc. may have been breached in June 2011 - nine months earlier than initially reported.
The UK has announced the first fine against a National Health Service unit for a breach in violation of the Data Protection Act. The Aneurin Bevan Health Board in Wales was fined £70,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office for sending sensitive patient information to the wrong person.
Payments processor First Data warns about an uptick in trolling - hackers sniffing networks for easy access to merchants' point-of-sale systems. What can banks do to help merchants prevent breaches?
Symantec says Internet vulnerabilities are down, but don't get too comfortable. We can expect more attacks in 2012. Why are the same threats still posing so much concern?
If you handle critical data, you've got to be humble, advises Bob Carr, CEO of breached processor Heartland Payments System. "Anyone that thinks they're not going to be breached is being naïve."
Even while working to re-establish its own PCI compliance, breached payments processor Global Payments Inc. is helping merchants assess and improve their payment card security.
Gartner fraud expert Avivah Litan shares ideas about how lessons learned from the Global Payments data breach can help security practitioners mitigate card-fraud risks and prevent future incidents.
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