The hacked are itching to hack back. So say a dozen security specialists and former law-enforcement officials, who described an intensifying and largely unspoken sense of unease inside many companies after the recent breach of Sony Corp.’s networks. U.S. officials …
A Philadelphia-based health insurance company has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 12,000 customers. Independence Blue Cross says maintenance workers mistakenly threw out four boxes of member records instead of moving them to another office. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports …
Sony Pictures Entertainment has been sued by two self-described former employees who accuse the movie studio of failing to protect Social Security numbers, healthcare records, salaries and other data from computer hackers who attacked it last month. The proposed class …
Technology will give fraudsters an edge in 2015, but it will also provide new tools for organizations and investigators, according to three experts from the Austin, Texas-based Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) who were asked for their top fraud …
As soon as Mark Kim found out his personal information was compromised in a data breach at Target last year, the 36-year-old tech worker signed up for the retailer’s free credit monitoring offer so he would be notified if someone …
Despite dedicated cyber risk policies, a security breach can trigger a variety of claims and coverages, security experts said at a recent conference exploring privacy issues. Panelists at the Privacy Xchange Forum held in Scottsdale, Ariz., earlier this month, discussed …
Fundamental changes are occurring in the way enterprises protect their data, according to Nuix, a technology company that enables people to make fact-based decisions from unstructured data. The company published a survey of corporate information security practitioners conducted by Ari …
It’s not just big businesses like JPMorgan Chase, Target and Home Depot that get hacked. Small companies suffer from intrusions into their computer systems, too. The costs associated with computer and website attacks can run well into the thousands and …
The hackers who raided the data banks of JPMorgan Chase & Co. used computers now linked to possible attacks on at least 13 more financial companies, according to a person familiar with the investigation. More than a month after the …
Hackers exploited an employee password to crack a JPMorgan Chase & Co. server and ultimately pull off one of the largest cyber-attacks ever, accessing data on 76 million households and 7 million small businesses. JPMorgan, the largest U.S. bank, outlined …