Achieving international acceptance of PCI-DSS is an ongoing challenge, says Jeremy King, international director of the PCI Security Standards Council, who's working to educate merchants about baseline security that goes far beyond cardholder data protection.
"Brexit" means that British law enforcement agencies will likely have a harder time taking a bite out of cybercrime as well-regarded intelligence-sharing relationships get severed and must be renegotiated.
Comodo made no new friends last week when it claimed that a nonprofit project, Let's Encrypt, stole its business model. Now, the digital certificate giant says it will not pursue applications aimed at securing trademarks using the phrase "Let's Encrypt."
While PCI compliance is a priority for many U.S. retailers, some major companies in Australia say they'd rather forego the cost of compliance and risk the possibility of steep fines if a card breach occurs.
By a margin of 52 percent to 48 percent, British voters have decided to leave the European Union. But as Britain renegotiates its relationship with EU member states, its mass surveillance practices will likely face sharp scrutiny.
In an in-depth interview, Michael Sentonas of breach response specialist CrowdStrike discusses how a focus on malware detection may still be leaving organizations exposed and describes the firm's new efforts in the Asia-Pacific region.
Let's Encrypt is crying foul over trademark applications made by Comodo that use the nonprofit project's name. Comodo is refusing to back down, which has drawn the large digital certificate vendor wide criticism.
In this edition of the ISMG Security Report, you'll hear reports on the U.S. government nabbing healthcare fraudsters; federal agencies at risk of exposing highly sensitive data; and the hacking of brokerage accounts.
In the wake of a majority of British voters opting to leave the European Union, the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office argues that the country should still comply with the EU's data privacy rules. But will politics get in the way?
Despite police disrupting alleged DDoS extortion gangs such as DD4BC, inexpensive stresser/booter services have enabled copycats to continue these attacks, says Akamai's Martin McKeay. Here's how organizations can defend themselves.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an emergency court order to freeze the assets of U.K. citizen Idris Dayo Mustapha, who it accuses of hacking into individuals' brokerage accounts to engineer and profit from stock price fluctuations.
Kaspersky Lab says that its original estimate of how many remote desktop protocol server credentials were offered for sale in the now shuttered online cybercrime marketplace xDedic may have been far too low, based on new data coming to light.
With ransomware attacks surging, all organizations should ensure they have an enterprise backup and disaster recovery plan in place, and eliminate all unnecessary, outdated or disused applications and services running on endpoints and servers, says ESET's Mark James.
A short chat with the alleged seller of the LinkedIn and MySpace data begs more questions about how the services were compromised and if there are more large breaches to come.
In the event of a "Brexit" - British exit - from the European Union following this week's referendum, the U.K. would likely still have to comply with EU data protection laws, but also face cybercrime-related policing and prosecution challenges.
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