'Sophisticated Attack' Siphoned Card Data for 6 Months, Retailer WarnsRetailer Eddie Bauer is warning customers that their payment card data may have been compromised by point-of-sale malware during a... Read more »
Police Arrest Insider After Breach; Software Misuse Issues Arise as WellPolice have arrested an employee of U.K.-based accountancy and business software developer Sage Group after a data breach. Meanwhile, a report has... Read more »
Open Source Software Blocks Malicious Actions, Researchers SayUSB devices and ports pose serious risks, and they aren't going away anytime soon. But researchers say they've developed a way to block malicious actions... Read more »
Code is Likely Legit, But a Bit Sloppy, Experts SayAn unparalleled mystery has piqued the security community's curiosity. A group calling itself the "Shadow Brokers" claims to have stolen code and exploits... Read more »
Fun Factor Aside, 'Hacking Back' Carries Legal RisksMalware researcher Ivan Kwiatkowski unleashed ransomware on tech-support scammers after his parents stumbled across a site warning they'd been infected by Zeus. Despite the feel-good... Read more »
Drilling Down on Cybersecurity Plans
Vikrant Arora, CISO of NYC Health & Hospitals, offers the four most important questions a board must ask the CISO to get a good understanding of how the... Read more »
Vikrant Arora, CISO of NYC Health & Hospitals, offers the four most important questions a board must ask the CISO to get a good understanding of how the... Read more »
Before Bangladesh Bank Heist, SWIFT Allegedly Overlooked Smaller Banks' SecuritySWIFT screwed up. That's the takeaway from a new report into the Brussels-based cooperative, which alleges that the organization overlooked serious concerns relating... Read more »
A lesson from down under: A report on unintentionally creating a distributed-denial-of-service attack aimed at oneself highlights the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also, a report on interpreting HIPAA privacy... Read more »
Sam Lodhi, CISO of UK's Medicine and Health Products Regulatory Agency, speaks about adapting biological cybernetics to help management understand information security risk better and how cybernetics can be applied to other... Read more »
As new schemes from hackers get more disruptive and harmful, it is critical to scale up defences, disrupt these attacks and make your organization a lesser target. Alex Holden, founder and CISO... Read more »