Assurant: Smart Home Hacking Risks Concern Consumers January 9, 2017 Consumers are excited by the progression toward ‘connected living’ and the many ways connected technologies can improve their lives, according...
Data Vulnerability Highlighted by Latest Yahoo Mega Breach December 20, 2016 By BREE FOWLER The revelation of Yahoo’s latest hack underscores what many Americans have known for years: All those emails, photos and other...
Small Businesses Pay as Russian Man Faces U.S. Trial in $170M Hacking Scheme August 16, 2016 By MARTHA BELLISLE Prosecutors describe Roman Seleznev, the son of a Russian lawmaker, as a master hacker who orchestrated an international scheme that...
Feds Say No Risk of Hacking in Non-Jeep Radios January 12, 2016 By TOM KRISHER U.S. safety regulators have determined that only Fiat Chrysler radios have a security flaw that allowed friendly hackers to take...
Federal Appeals Court Rules That FTC has Power to Police Cybersecurity August 26, 2015 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. appeals court said the Federal Trade Commission has authority to regulate corporate cybersecurity, and may pursue a lawsuit...
HSB Study: 69% of Businesses Reported Being Hacked in the Last Year June 3, 2015 Almost 70 percent of businesses experienced at least one hacking incident in the last year, according to a study of...
Companies Test Employees on Hacking Vunerability February 13, 2015 By BARBARA ORTUTAY Are you a hack waiting to happen? Your boss wants to find out. High-profile hacks have companies on the defensive,...
Hacked Banks May be Hacking Back as Firms Explore Cyber Offensive December 31, 2014 By Michael Riley and Jordan Robertson The hacked are itching to hack back. So say a dozen security specialists and former law-enforcement officials, who described an...
Kmart Latest Cyber Hack Victim, Unknown Number of Customers Affected November 11, 2014 By Duane D. Stanford Sears Holdings Corp.’s Kmart discount chain, the latest victim of hacker attacks on retailers, said it detected a security breach...
Security Breaches Exposed 22.8M New Yorkers’ Personal Records July 16, 2014 By MICHAEL VIRTANEN A new report shows 22.8 million private records of New Yorkers have been exposed in data security breaches reported by...