Breach

It's important to be familiar with one's network before going in to assess any damage or patch vulnerabilities. Although good technology may be deployed, accidents happen.

For a large-listed corporation, a security breach is arguably one of your worst, although inevitable public relations nightmares.

Statements containing confidential information were filed by Duke University Health System (DUHS) as part of patients' bankruptcy actions.

Eighty-seven thousand people affiliated with Housatonic Community College may be open to identity theft after the institution became the second Connecticut school to experience a malware outbreak this year.

Oracle next week will release 88 new security vulnerability fixes across hundreds of its products.

Visa is advising its customers to be wary of phone scams in which fraudsters request their credit card information under the guise that they need it for "security reasons" in light of the major data breach that affected Global Payments, according to a Tuesday alert from Visa.

When it comes to the causes of data breaches in health care, these are four scenarios that could have easily been prevented.

A misconfigured server is to blame for the attack, which impacted roughly 780,000 Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Plan recipients.