An unauthorized person or group accessed a merchant's system prompting American Express to warn customers that card member information may have been compromised.
The Dell Data Security Report found that 82 percent of IT and business decision makers surveyed have tried to limit employee access to data across their locations,
U.S. authorities are reportedly preparing to issue an indictment against Iranian hackers believed to have carried out acyber attack against a New York dam.
The security firm Staminus was knocked offline allegedly by a group calling itself FTA, which then began posting on the web data pulled from the company's servers.
In a post-Valentine's Day attack, the e-commerce site of 1-800-FLOWERS was accessed by an unauthorized person for more than a day during which time about 7K customers placing orders on the site may have had their personal and payment information compromised.
The FTC has ordered nine companies to provide information on the way they assess whether retailers and others are in compliance with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).
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