data theft

Over 260 million people have been victims of data breaches and increased risk of identity theft since the Target revelations, yet nearly 80 percent have done nothing to …

IT and security professionals expect cloud services to multiply the likelihood and economic impact of data breaches as they pervade the enterprise. They also reveal that the …

Corporate data breaches have seen a spike in recent months, and unfortunately American Express is the latest to join a long list of companies affected by hackers infiltrating …

As eBay flounders while trying to adequately respond to the breach it disclosed last week, and deems weak passwords to be good but stronger ones to be weak, researchers are …

A database containing eBay customers’ name, encrypted password, email address, physical address, phone number and date of birth was compromised. Here are some of the …

eBay has been hacked, and its customers are urged to change their account password as soon a possible. The attack, effected between late February and early March, resulted in …

Credit and debit card fraud tops Americans’ security concerns in 2014, against a recent backdrop of major retail and banking security breaches, according to Unisys and …

Bitly has released more details about the breach that made them reset user account credentials and disconnect all users’ Facebook and Twitter accounts late last week: …

French telecom provider Orange has suffered a second data breach in less that four months, and this time the intruders made off with personal information of some 1.3 million …

Recent data breaches have had little impact on the security controls of retail and financial organizations, according to Tripwire. Of the 102 financial organizations and 151 …

In this podcast, recorded at Infosecurity Europe 2014, Josie Herbert interviews Craig Carpenter, the Chief Cybersecurity Strategist for AccessData. Carpenter tackles the …

The average consolidated total cost of a data breach increased 15 percent in the last year to $3.5 million, say the results of Ponemon Institute’s ninth annual Cost of …