URI took a publicly available server offline after a breach compromised the information of faculty and students.
July 13, 2012
The challenge that Big Data presents is trying to align disparate analytical islands. The answer comes in pulling all the pieces together.
July 02, 2012
The loss of personally identifiable information (PII) by an organization can lead to customer loss, reputational harm, and fines, but before this data can be properly guarded, it must be located.
For more than six years, the personal and medical data of hundreds of patients of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York was publicly available on the web.
For the second time in two years, hackers gained access to a University of North Florida (UNF) server holding the confidential information of students.
Vandals gained access to a database containing the personal records, including Social Security numbers, of hundreds of thousands of University of Nebraska students, alumni and others connected to the school's four campuses.
An employee of the Boston Children's Hospital lost a laptop holding patient information.
An apologetic governor of Utah on Tuesday announced the resignation of the state's executive director of technology services, and the hiring of two others, following a massive breach affecting Medicaid claimants.
May 01, 2012
Is health care a last frontier for today's cyber criminals?
May 01, 2012
Health care traditionally, compared with other industries, has lagged in terms of cyber defense, but with attackers now specifically targeting these organizations for patient data, inaction is no longer an option.
April 17, 2012
For a large-listed corporation, a security breach is arguably one of your worst, although inevitable public relations nightmares.
Statements containing confidential information were filed by Duke University Health System (DUHS) as part of patients' bankruptcy actions.
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.
Visa is advising its customers to be wary of phone scams in which fraudsters request their credit card information under the guise that they need it for "security reasons" in light of the major data breach that affected Global Payments, according to a Tuesday alert from Visa.
A misconfigured server is to blame for the attack, which impacted roughly 780,000 Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Plan recipients.
An accused member of the hacktivist group LulzSec pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles to charges of hacking into the systems of Sony Pictures Entertainment, according to reports.
Hackers, believed to be operating out of Eastern Europe, breached a server at the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) to access thousands of Medicaid records.
Global Payments, a major credit card processor based in Atlanta, is off Visa's approved list after it confirmed it was breached of some 1.5 million card numbers. The incident, however, is still shrouded in some mystery.
April 02, 2012
With data proliferating at astonishing rates, organizations are tearing into it, hoping to derive new business value, which, according to Zions CSO Preston Wood, includes better security decision making.
A military dating website, which a band of hackers claimed this week to successfully infiltrate to pillage members' personal information, was not actually hacked, according to its administrator.
The FTC seemed most upset with RockYou's failure to protect the personal information of 179,000 children who registered to use the site.
Hackers calling themselves "LulzSec Reborn" have claimed responsibility for two breaches that resulted in the dumping of personal information.
Victims of the TRICARE breach have experience financial fraud, leading to an amended complaint filed against the Defense Department.
The personal information of more than 1,000 public employees of Wayne County, Mich., was exposed when a spreadsheet containing their data was inadvertently attached to an email blast.
The college blames a "server management error" for the public posting of confidential information of tens of thousands of students, faculty and staff.
Organizations now pay an average of $194 per breached record, the first time the annual Symantec-Ponemon Institute "Cost of a Data Breach Study" noted a drop since its inception in 2006.
The BlueCross BlueShield settlement with the Office for Civil Rights is a reminder for health care organizations to bolster their data security, experts said.
Online hackers have compromised two adult websites, including the very popular YouPorn, in recent weeks, apparently to highlight weak security.
March 01, 2012
The massive fallout from the breaches of Gawker, Sony and others involving weak password authentication schemes show that the current password system is dead.
March 01, 2012
No single reported breach in recent memory better highlighted the risk that vulnerable third-parties present than when hackers last year raided Epsilon.
