The bill would provide consumers nationwide with similar protections already enforced by a California law.
Microsoft is prepping a whopper of a security update that will close 33 vulnerabilities, likely including an Internet Explorer (IE) flaw that has been used in targeted website attacks against the U.S. government.
Up to 160,000 Social Security numbers and one million driver's license numbers may have been accessed by intruders.
For their role in a brazen heist, eight New York-area individuals are accused of withdrawing around $2 million in one day from hacked prepaid debit card accounts. Globally, the crime ring was responsible for stealing around $45 million.
Name.com said it believed its encryption is sufficient enough to prevent the hackers from using any of the sensitive information that was stolen.
After the public website of the Washington state Administrative Office of the Courts was compromised in February, an investigation revealed the severity of the breach in April.
The California Department of Public Health announced that the data included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and medical information.
Although the specifics of the lost information is unknown, the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada has announced that 52,000 clients of 32 brokerage firms have been affected.
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.
Whistleblowing organizations like WikiLeaks and accused hacktivists like Hammond are not foreign spies lusting to plunder intellectual property from U.S. corporations and government agencies in order to profit and gain a competitive advantage.
