Even After Breaches, Convenience Trumps Security In Payments

A survey by the Ponemon Institute and Experian suggests that consumer convenience is still the number one consideration driving technology adoption in the payments industry… even when it might adversely affect security.

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FCC, AT&T Reach $25M Settlement Over Insider Data Breach

FCC is on the data breach case, fining AT&T $25M for an insider data breach that took place from 2013-2014.

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Can you "leak" public information?

The personal information on world leaders attending the G20 summit was accidentally released to a third party. Is it a data breach? Maybe not.

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At Anthem: Where There’s Fire, There’s Smoke

After losing 80 million patient records, Anthem Healthcare is refusing to have its network scanned for vulnerabilities by a federal auditor, raising questions about the health insurer’s internal practices.

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Court Finds Data Breach not an Imminent Risk to Victim

A federal court ruled last week that a massive data breach at a Texas hospital didn’t put patients at imminent risk of identity theft.

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Transparency Trolling: The Problem with Dumping Public Records

Does former Florida governor and presidential hopeful Jeb Bush's release of e-mail constitute a data leak?

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Health Insurer Anthem Inc. Latest to Fall Victim to "Sophisticated Cyber Attack"

With up to 80 million customer records exposed, this could be among the largest data breaches in U.S. history - but what really happened to Anthem?

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Pride Cometh Before The Data Leak

Research from Fujitsu finds that users who are more confident of their IT skillz are also more likely to be the source of a data breach.

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The Data Breaches That Weren't

Minecraft is the latest company to be wrongfully accused of losing control of customer data. The real culprit: users, themselves.

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In the Wake of the Year of the Data Breach, Do we Need a Sarbanes Oxley for IT?

When scandals roil Wall Street or Corporate Boards, federal regulations soon follow. Five years into our data theft epidemic, however, there’s still no law demanding accountability for information security.

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