The FTC reached a settlement with Wyndham Worldwide that had challenged its authority to pursue enforcement action against companies regarding security.
Hacktivist collective Anonymous said it will continue its cyber assault on ISIS, declaring Friday, December 11, a trolling day against the terrorist group.
Steve Durbin, managing director of the Information Security Forum, told SCMagazine.com that 2016 is the year that organizations and individuals become aware of fact that when they're operating in cyber space, they're managing risk.
After the Paris shootings, France hastily passed emergency terror legislation to extend a state of emergency for three months and expands the government's law enforcement's broad surveillance powers.
A CERT Vulnerability Note published Dec. 1 warned of a pair of vulnerabilities in the Epiphany Cardio Server ECG Management System Version 3.3 that could be used to allow unauthenticated miscreants access to patient data as well as let them modify it as well.
