The Massachusetts attorney general has launched an investigation into a data breach involving a subsidiary of Experian. Earlier, attorneys general in Illinois and Connecticut announced similar investigations.
Iowa State University is notifying about 50,000 individuals who enrolled in certain classes between 1995 and 2012 about a hacking incident that exposed their personal information. Learn what steps the university is taking to improve security.
Industry analysts are debating why it took retailer Michaels nearly three months to confirm a breach of its point-of-sale network, and they're asking if the breach is linked to others, including those at Target and Neiman Marcus.
A recently filed class action lawsuit against an Arizona community college district is the latest in a series of legal complaints over a data security incident that potentially affected millions of individuals.
A draft of revised guidance from NIST drops a cryptographic algorithm the NSA is said to have used to circumvent encryption that shields much of global commerce, banking systems, medical records and Internet communications.
Within one day of the disclosure of the flaw known as Heartbleed, an attacker posing as an authorized user broke into a corporate computer system, exploiting the vulnerability in the OpenSSL protocol, the breach detection firm Mandiant says.
The breach of e-commerce retailer LaCie is the latest indicator that more fraudsters are targeting online merchants because card-not-present transactions are particularly vulnerable.
Arts and crafts retailer Michaels says an investigation has now confirmed a data breach involving sophisticated malware may have compromised account information for 3 million payment cards.
Leading this week's industry news roundup, Sophos announces an update of its network security gateway hardware, while McAfee releases a tool to help combat the Heartbleed bug.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have arrested and charged a 19-year-old London, Ontario, man for his alleged role in exploiting the Heartbleed vulnerability to steal data from the Canada Revenue Agency website.
Computer hardware retailer LaCie is notifying customers about a breach involving payment card data that went on for almost a year. A forensics investigation of the incident, which involved malware, is continuing.
Mumsnet, a UK website for parents, is forcing all of its users to change their passwords after it discovered that a cyber-attacker had taken advantage of the Heartbleed bug to access account data.
In the wake of recent high-profile retail breaches, the PCI Security Standards Council is supporting a move toward chip card technology that conforms to the Europay, MasterCard, Visa Standard, says General Manager Bob Russo.
Harley Medical Group in England is notifying 480,000 individuals that their personal information has been compromised following a hacker intrusion into the organization's systems.
The indictment of nine alleged participants in a fraud scheme that involved infecting thousands of business computers with Zeus malware to steal millions of dollars shows that the malware remains a formidable ongoing threat.
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