Microsoft moves to quash a search warrant granting U.S. investigators the right to request copies of an overseas customer's e-mails that are stored in a data center in Ireland.
Continuous monitoring is helping Freddie Mac reduce the number of security controls it uses to safeguard its information systems, says CISO Patricia Titus, who summarizes lessons that can apply to government and private-sector entities.
In the wake of its massive data breach, Target Corp. has hired as its first CISO an executive with information security leadership experience at two of the nation's largest corporations.
A second economic espionage campaign has been tied to a Chinese military hacking team. But does that attribution help businesses, or just highlight security firms battling for government cybersecurity spending?
A new voluntary cybersecurity framework from the Bank of England is designed to help financial institutions in the U.K. identify vulnerable areas that could be exploited by a cyber-attack. Find out the details of the new program.
We've been talking about shifting away from legacy mag-stripe technology and a move toward EMV chip cards for the last decade in the U.S. So is it too late, or is there still hope for EMV?
Imagine a cyber-attack that disables an electricity distribution center. What's the role of the U.S. military, government or the utility company in defending and retaliating? That's a question on the mind of Army Col. Gregory Conti.
Paul Smocer of BITS explains why banking institutions, which face increasing cyberthreats, need to put the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to use, and why third parties should prepare for more regulatory scrutiny of their security practices.
In the wake of the Heartbleed flaw, a researcher finds new weaknesses in OpenSSL that could be exploited to launch man-in-the-middle attacks, distributed-denial-of-service attacks and remote-code execution on millions of sites.
A proposed UK computer crime bill would increase hacking penalties and criminalize cybercrime attacks that impact the economy, environment or national security. Proving related charges in court, however, could be difficult.
Poor Internet hygiene, not increased cybercrime, is what's really to blame for the increased botnet traffic the online world is battling, say cybersecurity experts Tom Kellermann and Rod Rasmussen.
There's good news on the Zeus Gameover Trojan and Cryptolocker ransomware campaigns: The number of new infections has become "very low," if not fallen to zero. But related attacks could quickly resurge. Learn the reasons why.
A George Mason University researcher says NIST's cybersecurity framework is likely to cause more problems than it solves. Instead, he encourages critical infrastructure operators to adopt dynamic cybersecurity provisions.
An ongoing APT campaign employs decoy documents to lure potential victims into installing malicious remote-control tools. Targets include at least one bank, the BBC and many U.S. and EU government agencies.
Security researchers say the international takedown of the Gameover Zeus botnet and servers for CryptoLocker ransomware will have a positive short-term impact, but they warn the threats could quickly re-emerge unless key steps are taken.
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