Some 200 people have reported fraudulent debit and credit transactions hitting their accounts after dining at Margarita's Mexican Restaurant in Texas. Investigators believe a third-party vendor may have been hacked.
The arrest is part of a continuing investigation into network intrusions and distributed denial of service attacks against a number of international business and intelligence agencies by what is believed to be the same hacking group.
Bowing to demand from staff, the Department of Veterans Affairs plans to allow the use of Apple's iPads and iPhones for certain purposes beginning Oct. 1.
A retired Army lieutenant colonel, Vickers had headed U.S. CERT for nearly two years, first as acting director after Mischel Kwon resigned and then as permanent director since April 2010.
The General Services Administration expects the cloud-based system will reduce e-mail operation costs by 50 percent and save more than $15.2 million over the next five years.
"The action and manifestation of risk is not necessarily evident to today's users in the way it was in the past, and that creates a big inherent challenge for a CISO," says Malcolm Harkins, CISO at Intel Corp.
The new Medical Device Innovation, Safety and Security Consortium is leading the way in developing best practices for securing networked medical devices that could be affected by malware.
There was good news and bad news in the reporting of major health information breaches in the past month. The good news: Only four incidents were added to the official federal tally. The bad news: One of those incidents affected 400,000 individuals.
The Privacy and Security Tiger Team is spelling out best practices for giving patients clear and simple guidance regarding how to safeguard electronic health records when downloading them from a hospital or a clinic.
"Technological innovation (has) proven to be an overwhelming force for good; however, transnational criminal organizations have taken advantage of our increasingly interconnected world to expand their illicit enterprises," President Obama says.
Policies for protecting the privacy of patient information that's used for research will be considered in the context of broader new federal guidelines for protecting human research subjects.
Though America remains dominant on land, sea and air, technical and economic barriers to gain entry in cyberspace are much lower for adversaries, and as a result, place the United States' networks at great risk, GAO says.
Three banks were closed and one credit union was conserved by state and federal banking regulators on Friday, July 22. These failures bring the year's tally to 74 failed institutions.
An integrated delivery system in Connecticut is taking the extraordinary step of encrypting its clinical databases before launching an ambitious health information exchange effort.
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