Employees falling prey to social engineering ploys or with an agenda pose the "biggest threat to company security," concluded a new report from Ari Kaplan and Nuix.
Members of a panel on the "Homeland Security Implications of ISIS Attacks" at the Council on Foreign Relations talked about encryption and surveillance in the effort to defeat terrorist groups.
Cybersecurity legislation buried within a $1.1 trillion government spending agreement that was needed to prevent a government shutdown got the nod from the House.
The Bernie Sanders presidential campaign gave its national data director the boot after he took advantage of a software glitch in a voter database managed by a third party to gain unauthorized access to proprietary modeling data from Hillary Clinton's campaign.
A Chinese teenager hacked into the website of a Chinese airline, stole the information of hundreds of passengers and then used it to defraud them into paying additional fees for their flights, netting a cool $150,000 for his efforts.