LATEST NEWS

Scammers on the hunt for Memorial Day deal watchers

Like they do with major news events and other holidays, online fraudsters are seeking to cash in on the upcoming Memorial Day weekend.

Proxy research firm settles charges with SEC over client breach

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a research firm the advises clients on voting in proxy fights, must pay $300,000 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Happy Hour Hot Links: Week of 5/20

Every Friday, after the SC Magazine news team has taken a few spins around the interwebs, we post some security-related links that we found interesting. We hope you do too.

Idaho State University to pay HHS $400K after investigation reveals shoddy security

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services continues to ramp up its investigations of health care-related entities as a result of breaches.

Critical vulnerablilty discovered in industrial control product

Critical vulnerablilty discovered in industrial control product

The vulnerability was found in two programmable gateway devices often used by auto, food and manufacturing businesses in the United States. Meanwhile, a new study shows attacks against utility companies are growing.

LATEST FEATURES

DATA BREACH BLOG

Data on patients may be exposed after X-rays go missing

The sensitive information, including names, addresses, and Social Security numbers, went missing from a third-party vendor's warehouse.

Administrative error exposes personal data of 10,200 neurology patients

A routine email sent to Dent Neurologic Institute patients mistakenly included the sensitive data of others receiving treatment.

Website hack leads to credit card breach of nearly 10K at N.C. medical practice

Other personal information, such as names, contact information and dates of birth, was also compromised.

NEWS TEAM BLOG

Why the AP phone records seizure and the LulzSec sentences are related

The U.S. government is sending a clear message: We won't tolerate secrets coming to light.

The power and danger of using the cyber "T" word

Referencing the Boston bombings as terrorism prompted an unprecedented manhunt for the suspects that included a citywide lockdown. What would a similar scene have looked like on the internet?

Here are eight cyber crooks who got less prison time than Andrew Auernheimer

The security researcher and self-proclaimed internet troll earned 41 months behind bars Monday for his role in using a script to retrieve data on roughly 120,000 Apple iPad users from a public web server.