Cybersecurity researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute are developing a tool known as BlackForest that amasses information from the Internet to give organizations an early warning of a pending cyber-attack.
P.F. Chang's China Bistro now says a breach of its card processing system may have resulted in the theft of customer payment card information at 33 of its 210 U.S. locations. Security experts question why so few of the locations were affected.
Among the major data breaches reported during the week of July 28 was an incident at Irish online gambling site Paddy Power that impacted 650,000 customers. View this week's infographic of the top five breaches for the week.
Members of the Mozilla Developer Network, the software company's online development community, are being alerted about an accidental disclosure that exposed e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords.
A U.S. federal court judge has upheld a warrant requiring Microsoft to give the Justice Department copies of e-mails being stored at a data center in Dublin. But Microsoft plans to appeal the ruling on privacy grounds.
NIST says its recommended changes to security and privacy assessment procedures should result in significant improvements in the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of control assessments.
A new point-of-sale malware strain known as Backoff has been linked to remote-access attacks, and small merchants are at greatest risk, according to an alert from federal authorities.
Leading this week's industry news roundup, Microsoft and Akamai partner to help develop cybersecurity startups, while Blackberry acquires data encryption company Secusmart.
Brian Cornell, newly appointed CEO of Target Corp., faces the challenge of ensuring that the protection of customer information is a top priority at the company following last year's massive data breach.
An undisclosed number of Delaware restaurants may have been affected by a remote-access breach that compromised point-of-sale software, according to the Delaware Restaurant Association.
The FDIC this week removed its list of high-risk merchant categories from guidance related to third-party payment processors. Experts say pressure from merchants may have been the catalyst for the change.
A "highly sophisticated Chinese state-sponsored actor" is responsible for a recent data breach at the National Research Council of Canada, according to Canada's chief information officer.
A new handbook from the National Association of Corporate Directors, titled Cyber-Risk Oversight, offers five principles to guide boards of directors in helping their organizations address IT security threats.
A low-tech campaign combines phishing, small-footprint attack code and Android malware to topple banks' security defenses in Switzerland and three other nations. Will the campaign extend to U.S., U.K., and beyond?
Are Hamas' cyber capabilities as potent as its kinetic weaponry? Israeli cybersecurity providers consider the impact of cyber-attacks on their businesses and the nation.
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