Former employees may have helped a small number of mortgage lenders gain access to the personal information of LendingTree customers by sharing passwords, the company admitted in a letter to victims.
Hannaford Bros. plans to implement millions of dollars of new technology that will effectively overhaul its IT security infrastructure and allow the recently breached supermarket chain to exceed data security requirements, the company and industry experts said.
With the growth of malicious programs currently outpacing that of legitimate applications, and traditional countermeasures proving inadequate, consumers and security vendors may need to join forces to ward off threats.
The Federal Trade Commission has approved a final consent order that settles charges an online clothing retailer failed to properly secure its customers' personal information.
The University of Miami disclosed on Friday that one of its storage vendors lost a number of back-up tapes containing the personal information of more than two million patients.
Security researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) have discovered a utility that served as the foundation for a series of attacks that compromised thousands of websites and infected millions of users' PCs over the past several months.
