Like they do with major news events and other holidays, online fraudsters are seeking to cash in on the upcoming Memorial Day weekend.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The sensitive information, including names, addresses, and Social Security numbers, went missing from a third-party vendor's warehouse.
A routine email sent to Dent Neurologic Institute patients mistakenly included the sensitive data of others receiving treatment.
Other personal information, such as names, contact information and dates of birth, was also compromised.
The U.S. government is sending a clear message: We won't tolerate secrets coming to light.
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?
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.
