April 08, 2013
Last week, hospital officials began notifying patients of the February theft.
Plaintiffs' failure to have an expert verify their damages was a "fatal" flaw in the case, according to a federal judge.
April 05, 2013
The records were stored by storage provider working with Glens Falls Hospital in New York.
Electronic road signs in St. Charles, Ill. were hacked on Thursday, displaying messages that had nothing to do with a pipeline project taking place nearby.
The psychologist was a private contractor for Washington's Department of Social and Health Services.
April 01, 2013
Cyber espionage is at an all-time high, and businesses across the United States are being targeted and breached, says Phillip Ferraro, CISO, DRS Integrated Defense Systems and Services.
April 01, 2013
Are there ways to catch sophisticated malware that hides in trusted processes and services? Deb Radcliff finds out.
Current and retired employees of Allen County, Ohio were affected.
March 26, 2013
A surgeon's laptop containing the personal information of patients was stolen while he was on vacation.
March 25, 2013
Officials at the University of Mississippi Medical Center posted an online notice, saying they had "insufficient contact information" to individually notify those potentially compromised.
Even IT security professionals are clearly ignoring basic security rules, a new survey found.
A failed attempt to rig an election in Florida doesn't mean hackers won't find another way in as electronic voting becomes more common.
A worm detected on a school server at Salem State University caused a breach.
March 14, 2013
According to a court document, Auernheimer and his legal team believe he should serve months of probation rather than years behind bars.
As the FBI continues to investigate the dumped data of high-ranking government officials and celebrities, Equifax confirms that some of the information published was accessed from AnnualCreditReport.com.
The data allegedly includes Social Security numbers, financial information and other sensitive details belonging to a list of high profile public figures.
A CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation) employee lost a USB thumb drive that included personal records belonging to more than 50,000 Medicaid providers nationwide.
A large number of medical documents and files containing private information were found in a dumpster outside of an office complex in Hiram, Ga.
The plaintiffs failed to prove that a 2012 breach caused them financial loss or future harm, despite their claims that publicly posted credentials placed them at greater risk for identity theft.
March 04, 2013
The company advised its 50 million users on Saturday that it "detected and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access secure areas" of its service.
March 01, 2013
With almost daily advanced attacks, organizations of all sizes must be at the ready, according to respondents to this year's "Guarding Against a Data Breach" survey. Illena Armstrong reports.
Security incidents at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Zaxby's Franchising, and more.
Entrusting sensitive data to third-parties is a part of doing business, but that doesn't mean organizations should be blindsided by breaches.
Envelopes containing a tax form mailed in late January to retired government employees in North Carolina may have revealed the recipients' Social Security numbers.
The electronics giant is scheduled go before a California judge in September to request the suit dismissal.
On Friday, Facebook announced that a number of employee laptops were infected with malware after workers visited a mobile developer website that had been hijacked. On Tuesday, Apple said it was hit with a similar attack.
Attackers primarily want cardholder data, which can be easily bought and sold underground to commit fraud, according to security firm Trustwave.
Viewers of four TV stations, in Michigan and Montana, had their Monday evenings interrupted by an Emergency Alert System broadcast warning of a zombie invasion. It turned out to be a hacking hoax.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) looks to step up its security efforts by spending $20 million on more advanced cyber security tools.
February 12, 2013
The days of refusing to look for possible IT and security threats with the potential to result in the loss of customer data are over.
