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Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center recently fired 15 hospital workers for accessing the medical records of octuplet mother Nadia Suleman without permission.

Despite apparent security issues in Google Docs, the company is playing down the risks.

Flaws in the networks of financial institutions are illustrated in an account of the arrest of a hacker working out of Canada.

As Heartland works to become compliant again with the PCI standard, Visa plans to hold off on issuing fines.

Criticisms of the PCI DSS will hurt the security of payment systems, Visa's chief risk officer said Thursday at the card brand's Security Summit in Washington, D.C.

Security researchers have warned that Conficker worm's newest variant, which kills protective security processes, is set to activate on April 1.

Visa has removed Heartland Payment Systems and RBS WorldPay -- two payment processors that have announced massive data breaches in recent months -- from its list of service providers compliant with payment industry guidelines.

The campaign of Norm Coleman, the Minnesota Republican senator locked in a vicious recount battle to retain his seat, told political donors on Wednesday that they should cancel their credit cards after financial information of contributors was posted online.