Breach

A bipartisan bill introduced this week would allow victims of identity theft to seek restitution for their crime-related expenses.

Nine out of 10 websites have vulnerabilities open to attack, according to a new report by WhiteHat Security.

With the looming threats of publicly exposed personal data breaches, mishandled confidential partner information and lost intellectual property assets, an increasing number of enterprises are investigating options for securing data stored on both tape- and disk-based media.

The personal details of nearly 4,000 people — including commercial truck drivers who transport hazardous materials — were on two laptops stolen from a third-party contractor.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, with strong urging from a lobbying alliance, has vetoed a stringent data protection bill that would have made merchants, not banks, responsible for reissuing credit cards and alerting customers following a breach.

The world’s largest retail lobby today announced a plan that might free merchants from some of the most complex requirements of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) standard.

Oregon has become the latest state to pass legislation to control identity theft.

When enterprise data met email and IM, important data began leaking out of corporations unnoticed and it spawned a new security problem called data leakage.