A third suspect alleged to be responsible for the 2014 JPMorgan Chase data breach, which affected more than 83 million customers, was arrested Dec. 14 after reportedly voluntarily returning to the U.S. from Russia.
The emergence of contactless chip payments on mobile phones is changing the way transactions are authenticated and secured, Jeremy King of the PCI Security Standards Council explains in this audio interview.
A report foreseeing homegrown hacktivists showing their displeasure with President-elect Donald Trump by launching cyberattacks against U.S. government sites leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also, the details behind the 1 billion-record hack of Yahoo.
Yahoo has the dubious distinction of having not just one but two record-shattering historical breaches come to light this year. The latest breach to be revealed, which dates back to 2013, involved the potential compromise of 1 billion accounts.
Over the years, HHS has released several guidance documents, but all are weak and without mandates as it relates to identity management and authentication of entities accessing protected health information. Guidance typically includes words like "may" and "should," but rarely include words like "shall" or "must."
Hack attack victims often ask two questions: "Who did it? And can we hack them back?" But after an attack, with time of the essence for blocking further damage, those are the wrong questions for breached organizations to be asking, data breach response expert Alan Brill says in this audio interview.
Ransomware is going to get personal. Password managers will be huge targets. And we will see the rise of a whole new exploit kit. These are among the 2017 security predictions from Malwarebytes Laboratories. CEO Marcin Kleczynski offers insight on how to prepare.
How much time and effort will consumers put into protecting themselves from identity theft and financial fraud? That was the question posed by Aite Group's Julie Conroy in researching the new Global Security Engagement Scorecard. And the answer might just surprise you.
Has the healthcare sector finally reached a data security tipping point? Dave Summitt, CISO of H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, and many of his peers think so. And it's about time.
In the latest sign that when it comes to data, absolutely nothing is sacred, hackers have set their sights on fans of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and in particular 1.2 million members of its Colonel's Club loyalty program in the U.K. and Ireland.
Hours after President Obama directed intelligence agencies to conduct a full review of alleged efforts by the Russians to influence the 2016 presidential election, reports surfaced that the CIA in a secret report concluded with "high confidence" that the Kremlin tried to influence the vote in favor of Donald Trump.
Over the past two years, DDoS attacks have grown in strength and in purpose - they are often used now as a tool of extortion, says Richard Meeus of security vendor NSFOCUS. How should security leaders prepare to respond to these strikes?
In an in-depth audio interview, Troy Leach of the PCI Security Standards Council describes just-released guidance that's designed to help organizations simplify network segmentation, a practice the council strongly recommends to help protect payment card data.
Federal regulators have issued an alert urging healthcare sector organizations to take specific steps to prevent falling victim to distributed denial-of-service attacks. Security experts offer an assessment, plus additional tips.
Remote attackers could easily exploit backdoor accounts and software problems in more than 80 models of Sony IP cameras to install IoT malware such as Mirai, warns Austrian security firm SEC Consult.
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