Weaknesses in the physical controls of laptops and other hardware at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities has put the agency in danger of suffering another data breach, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The human factor — employees, customers, third parties and business partners — are the greatest root cause of security breaches, according to Deloitte Touche Tohmatsus 2007 Global Security Survey.
MediaDefender, an anti-piracy vendor often commissioned by movie studios and record companies, suffered a breach over the weekend when thieves stole thousands of internal emails.
A mass spear phishing attack could await victims of the recently publicized data breach at discount online broker TD Ameritrade, security experts said this week.
An underground economy where professional-grade crimeware and stolen data is exchanged in forums and auction-style websites has turned into a commercialized and extremely lucrative undertaking, the latest Symantec Internet Threat Report shows.
In the data breach that seems to grow in severity by the day, Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced Sunday that nearly all state government bank account data was stored on a backup computer tape stolen in June from a college interns car in Ohio.
