From 2010: When he first learned of the full magnitude of the Heartland Payment Systems data breach, Heartland CEO Bob Carr had one overriding thought: "Can we survive this?"
The Paul Allen card breach reiterates a concern financial fraud experts have been screaming about for years: Socially-engineered schemes that compromise employees. So, what can institutions do about them?
Today's threat landscape is challenging enough. But what happens when organized crime adopts the techniques developed by hacktivists? Learn more about the top 10 threats to security by 2014.
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Increasingly, social engineers target unwitting insiders to plunder organizations' financial and intellectual assets. How can you prevent these and traditional inside attacks? CMU's Dawn Cappelli offers tips.
Components manufactured overseas that go into IT products used by the U.S. government could be exploited by foreign intelligence agents to degrade the security of critical federal government networks and data, the GAO reports.
As one team of researchers analyzes a new version of Duqu, a worm related to the Stuxnet Trojan blamed for disabling Iranian centrifuges used to enrich uranium, other researchers zero in on who is behind the worm discovered last fall.
The average per capita cost of a data breach has declined from $214 to $194, according to the new Cost of a Data Breach study. But there are still plenty of causes for concern, says Dr. Larry Ponemon.
As the use of mobile devices explodes and health information exchanges gear up, it's time to consider whether adequate privacy and security measures are in place.
"Getting that top level support is the first step to making everything else happen," says Ron Ross, senior fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
A recent research paper that raised questions about the efficacy of RSA public-private key cryptography shouldn't alarm IT security practitioners, says Eugene Spafford of Purdue University. Here's why.
Verizon's 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report shows dramatic increases in attacks linked to hacktivist groups like Anonymous and LulzSec. How should organizations respond to this evolving threat?
Many healthcare organizations are ramping up their use of mobile devices before they have appropriate privacy and security policies, procedures and technologies in place, some experts say.
Jason Clark, CSO of Websense, has spent a significant amount of time meeting with over 400 CSOs. From his interactions, Clark offers his advice on how chief information security officers can be more effective.
Banking institutions have fought phishing and ACH fraud, but increasingly fraudsters are exploiting call centers. Where are the vulnerabilities and how can institutions fight back?
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