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Initiative measures the harm of breached patient information

Healthcare organizations are struggling with two key concerns: how to protect patient information and how to better understand the financial harm caused when protected health …

Play.com customers receiving malicious emails, Silverpop blamed

The notification and the warning that Play.com sent out to its customers following a breach of systems belonging to the company that handles part of its marketing …

Play.com breach compromises customer names and email addresses

Play.com, one of the largest online retailers of CDs, DVDs, books and gadgets, has notified its customers of a breach that possibly resulted in their names and email addresses …

Health Net suffers massive data breach

Health Net is conducting an investigation into several server drives that are unaccounted for from its data center operation located in Rancho Cordova, Calif. This …

Medical identity theft: The growing cost of indifference

While consumers grasp the importance of protecting their medical and personal information, few individuals take the necessary precautions to avoid medical identity theft, …

French government networks breached in search for G20 files

It seems that France is the latest country whose government computer networks have been targeted by malicious individuals with likely ties to the Chinese government. The …

Simple protection steps from credit card fraud

Every year, cybercriminals steal billions of dollars from unsuspecting computer users and companies by committing credit card fraud. Although this activity was once relegated …

Internet fraudsters jailed for online criminal forum

A group of young internet fraudsters who set up an online criminal forum which traded unlawfully obtained credit card details and tools to commit computer offences were jailed …

Stolen e-mails reveal Morgan Stanley was hit by Aurora attacks

Global financial services firm Morgan Stanley seems also to have been a victim of the hackers behind the Aurora attacks which came to light a year ago when Google decided to …

Moldovan fraud ring mastermind arrested

A coordinated effort of the Irish gardai and custom officers has led to the arrest of a Moldovan man that is thought to be the leader of and mastermind behind an international …

A lesson to learn from the HBGary breach

As you might have already read, the HBGary and rootkit.com breach by Anonymous was not executed by using obscure techniques or unknown vulnerabilities – quite the …

Canadian government networks breached by Chinese hackers?

When it comes to covert cyber attacks on government networks, it somehow seems that they can always be traced back to servers in China. It is always acknowledged that that …

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