Police are investigating a data breach incident at the University of Miami Hospital, where two employees were fired for stealing patient data, and possibly selling the sensitive information.
Ontario received a record number of privacy complaints last year, according to the province's privacy commissioner.
The personal information of home care workers and their elderly and disabled recipients may have been compromised when the storage device on which it was contained was lost in the mail.
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Symantec acknowledged this week that in addition to theft of source code for past versions of some if its security software, its own servers were breached in 2006.
A suit contends that the defendants failed to properly encrypt data, then "intentionally, willfully and recklessly" allowed an untrained individual to access the information.
A new banking trojan targeting U.S. customers has the ability to keep online account sessions open after customers believe they have logged off, enabling criminals to surreptitiously steal money.
Far from being Doctor Evil's Facebook page, social networks for criminals cover multiple facets of global crime. Should countering cybercrime be a goal of corporate business or is it merely a job for law enforcement?
When fiction meets reality: Competitive Intelligence and corporate interests merge with nation state espionage priorities targeting private sector industry.
As the technical evaluator for more than 200 wireless developer partners, my laptop was an espionage goldmine and I knew it. So I made a point not to bring it.
Hotels are the spots where industrial spies used to crouch like lions around a waterhole on the business savannah. Do these old school threats still exist?
With four billion mobile phones compared to one billion computers, cell phones remain a primary espionage target. You can eliminate most traveler-related cell phone risk with one step.
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