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Senate Republicans on Thursday defeated a bill that would have asked critical infrastructure operators to meet voluntary cyber security standards. Some Democrats also disagreed with the measure, saying it didn't go far enough to protect privacy.

An unencrypted laptop containing the personal data of roughly 10,000 medical patients was stolen from a hospital vendor employee's home.

Yahoo presumably took no measures to ensure sensitive stuff like customer account credentials were kept safe and sound.

The increasing connectedness of infrastructure increases the cascading effect an attack can have on other infrastructure sectors and capabilities.

Anonymous, WikiLeaks, DNSChanger, Stratfor, global cyber crime ring...and other breaking news.

In this sponsored video, Marc Kaplan, senior director at F5 Networks, and Jeremiah Grossman, founder and CTO of WhiteHat Security, chat with SC Magazine about the state of web application security.

A desktop computer storing personal health information was stolen from NYU Langone Medical Center.