What is the focus of new guidelines from the PCI Security Standards Council on mobile payment acceptance security? The council's Bob Russo and Troy Leach discuss key objectives - and what's coming next.
The Greater Manchester Police paid a £120,000 penalty after an unencrypted USB drive containing information on more than 1,000 individuals tied to serious criminal investigations was stolen.
What's missing from remarks by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and others is how the stalemate that led to the filibuster of the Cybersecurity Act could be resolved. Will the election make a difference?
"A cyberattack perpetrated by nation states or violent extremists' groups could be as destructive as the terrorist attack on 9/11," U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says. "Such a destructive cyber-terrorist attack could virtually paralyze the nation."
Do we have any reason to believe that any targeted banking institution will be better prepared next week to ward off a distributed denial of service attack like those that rocked three banks this week?
Healthcare providers often fail to conduct comprehensive, timely risk assessments, as required by regulators. But security expert Kate Borten says they can leverage new guidance to help get the job done.
"Any bug, beacon or backdoor put into our critical systems could allow for a catastrophic and devastating domino effect of failures throughout our networks," says Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence.
Lost and stolen unencrypted mobile devices are reoccurring culprits in data breaches. So why isn't the use of encryption more widespread? And how are organizations ramping up mobile security?
A wave of distributed denial of service attacks on banks raises the question: Should the owners of the nation's critical information infrastructure, when assessing risk, be held to a higher standard because society relies on them to function?
A new PCI certification program aims to improve PCI awareness, but how is the program designed to differ from what's already out there? PCI Council General Manager Bob Russo explains.
With so much hype and confusion around cybersecurity, falsely claiming an attack can have an impact on organizations trying to safeguard their digital assets.
Across the board, the job market in the U.S. is extremely competitive. Yet, fraud examiners are in demand -- and there are some tactics you can use to give yourself an edge when seeking a new job.
Two Romanians pleaded guilty to breaching point-of-sale systems at Subway and other U.S. retailers. Experts say the breach exposes common security vulnerabilities that remain a concern.
If Congress banned the sale of computer wares from Chinese companies to prevent backdoor spying, components made in China would still make it to American shores through products sold by other vendors. Virtually all of them contain Chinese-made parts.
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