With sophisticated hackers such as Albert Gonzalez behind bars, last year's crop of digital intruders were less slick but more prolific, according to the security industry's landmark data breach report.
A major U.S. energy supplier has found no evidence of breach despite claims by a former employee that he hacked into the company's New Mexico wind turbine facility as revenge for being fired.
Oracle has announced plans to issue 73 patches on Tuesday as part of its quarterly security update. Some of the vulnerabilities affect multiple products.The fixes address vulnerabilities across the database giant's portfolio, and the most severe flaws reside in JRockit, part of Oracle Fusion Middleware, and in Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server, part of the Sun products suite. Oracle encouraged users to update as soon as possible to avoid exploits.
The latest cyberattacks aimed at high-profile security firms underscore that any company, even those that do security for a living, can be compromised.
The Texas comptroller's office on Wednesday will begin notifying 3.5 million state employees and retirees that their unencrypted personal data was inadvertently posted to a public server.
MidState Medical Center, located in Meriden, Conn., has reported missing a hard drive containing the personal information of tens of thousands of hospital patients.
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