The all-volunteer Open Security Foundation (OSF) later this month plans to launch "Cloutage," a new project that will track incidents involving the cloud.
A vulnerability on the AT&T website resulted in the exposure of email addresses belonging to some 114,000 Apple iPad users, including a number of A-list celebrities and politicians.
Bob Carr, CEO of Heartland Payment Systems, which suffered a record-breaking breach in 2008, has rolled out a new payment solution to its merchants that offers end-to-end encryption of sensitive transaction data. In an interview with SC Magazine's Deputy Editor Dan Kaplan, Carr discusses the new offering and offers an update on the company's recovery 18 months after it announced the breach, which exposed some 130 million records.
Check Point Software Technologies on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Waltham, Mass.-based security startup Liquid Machines. Israel-based CheckPoint made the acquisition to bolster its existing data security portfolio. Liquid Machines' technology is expected to be integrated into a future Check Point product suite, due out in 2011, that would enable the secure sharing of documents. Terms of the deal were not announced. — AM
Think of the Gulf oil spill as a breach not spewing barrels of a viscous liquid but lots of credit card numbers. How does your organization plan to respond from a public relations perspective?