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News briefs: The latest news from Apple, Verizon and more

May 01, 2012

News briefs: The latest news from Apple, Verizon, CrowdStrike, FTC and more

Connecticut community college hit with "zero-day" malware

Roo Howar April 13, 2012

Eighty-seven thousand people affiliated with Housatonic Community College may be open to identity theft after the institution became the second Connecticut school to experience a malware outbreak this year.

TRICARE breach victims report financial fraud

Marcos Colon March 23, 2012

Victims of the TRICARE breach have experience financial fraud, leading to an amended complaint filed against the Defense Department.

Stratfor returns as Anonymous readies 5M stolen emails

Dan Kaplan January 12, 2012

An Anonymous representative said some 5.2 million emails stolen from Stratfor, a Texas-based global intelligence firm, will go live within the coming days.

GlobalSign discovers "isolated" web server compromise

Angela Moscaritolo September 13, 2011

Certificate authority GlobalSign has discovered that the web server hosting its site was compromised by hackers .

Ontario hospital employee accesses PHI

Angela Moscaritolo September 09, 2011

An employee of North Bay Regional Health Centre in Ontario, Canada accessed without permission the personal health information (PHI) of thousands of patients.

Thousands of Ontario cancer test results may be lost in the mail

Angela Moscaritolo July 26, 2011

Records containing the personal health information of thousands of Ontario citizens who participated in the province's colon cancer screening program may have gone missing.

WellPoint to pay $100,000 fine for breach

Angela Moscaritolo July 08, 2011

Indianapolis-based health insurer WellPoint will pay $100,000 to settle a data breach that exposed the personal information of 32,000 of its Indiana customers.

Is APT the new FUD?

Frank Andrus, co-founder and CTO, Bradford Networks July 01, 2011

The term "APT" is now becoming synonymous with any form of cyberattack, distracting attention away from the real challenge.

Nine out of 10 businesses breached in the last year

Angela Moscaritolo June 22, 2011

Not surprisingly based on the recent headlines, a new survey shows that 90 percent of organizations have been hit by at least one data breach in the past year.