Whether it's for PCI compliance or HIPAA assessments companies follow the conventional model of point-in-time certification accompanied by a costly and painful annual review and correction process.
The unnamed leaker's house was searched and a criminal case was opened after documents about the U.S. government's terrorist watch list were published.
The Federal Communications Commission fined Terracom, Inc. and YourTel America, Inc. $10 million for their failure to protect users' personal information.
The attack used a false certificate to trick iCloud users into handing over personal data and login credentials. With an attack of this size, some experts and researchers believe the Chinese government could be to blame.