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Cyber-breach disclosure standards still in flux
Back in October, the SEC issued CF Disclosure Guidance: Topic #2, which was all about corporate disclosure obligations regarding cyber-security risks and cyber-incidents.
MasterCard, Visa suffer massive breach
The conventional wisdom about credit card security has been that since the infamous Heartland Payments Systems in 2008, security had ramped up a notch.
Debate over VeriSign breach
“The first name in online security.” This VeriSign tag line now seems all too ironic in light the belatedly disclosed breach that has opened up a can of worms for the company. Reuters ...
IT employees feeling stress of cyber wars
Research firm Dynamic Market has taken an interesting look at how IT employees are coping on the front lines of the information security war. The survey of 1,000 IT managers makes clear that the
Morgan Stanley loses discs with critical customer data
For all the talk of cyber-criminals and the threat they impose to computer networks, there are a myriad of other threats to data security that are hardly high-tech in nature. Consider Morgan Stanley,
Companies take various approaches to breach disclosure
You need a checklist. People say that about a lot of things these days. In the wake of several high profile hacking crimes, companies need to think about their processes for reacting to breaches,
Security breaches may be underreported
Security breaches at companies have generated lots of headlines over the past few years, as more companies seem to have fallen victim to increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals. But despite all of
Criminals use customer PCs to target banks
There's been a big spike in fraud ( fraud news) committed by criminals who have found ways to corrupt the computers at small companies and government entities. The security bar is often lower at these
Do you have control of your logs?
IT departments typically generate all sorts of log files, which exhaustively note all the activity on a device, within an application or on a server--or who enters the building, for that matter. As
