When LivingSocial.com discovered that the personal information of their 50 million or so users had been stolen, they did what most companies do: they initiated an investigation and hunkered down to weather the
Security assessments are always interesting. I know, I do them all the time. You can never guess what you'll find when you're investigating a breach and a federal agency recently found that to
Cloud-based software offerings overcame recent high profile data breaches to grow 27 per cent in the Canadian market, according to an IDC Canada study.Revenues from cloud software, or software as a service (SaaS),
Update: PayPal has responded to the alleged breach by saying an internal investigation finds no evidence to support Anoymous' claim of stolen passwords. Other reports on the Web now indicate a different payment
The latest data breach figures from Symantec present a ‘good news, bad news' scenario.Symantec's August 2012 Intelligence Report compares the number ofbreaches for the first eight months of this year with the same
We’ve heard a lot of anecdotal cases of password leaks and other data breaches from some high-profile services this year, but now software vendor SecurityCoverage is showing some research that indicates data breaches
A little over a month after the FBI warned travelers of an uptick in data being stolen via hotel Internet connections, the Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint against Wyndham Worldwide Corporation
Government IT managers in Canada are over-confident and reactive rather than proactive when it comes to protecting public data from security threats, a new study suggests.Although 97.5 per cent of government IT security
A New York-based Web developer and his colleagues have built a Web-based application for people to see if their LinkedIn password hash is among 6.5 million released on a Russian hacker forum.The password
ServiceOntario has notified police authorities and is investigating a reported security breach of its service kiosks.The Ontario government has temporarily shut down all its kiosks across the province following the discovery of “security
A massive data breach of a payment-card processor's network could involve more than 10 million compromised card numbers, according to security news writer Brian Krebs in his online posting today.The name of the
The average organizational cost of data breaches has decreased for the first time in seven years, according to a study released by Symantec and the Ponemon Institute on Tuesday.In 2011 the average cost
by Stuart Crawford In today’s world of heightened security, full body scanners at airports and CCTV watching every move, it is remarkable how passwords are still kept in the minds of our engineers,
What's your company's accountability should your customer database get hacked? Is your latest rollout compliant with current privacy regulations? What are the legal minefields around your e-health or e-commerce services? Where do get
