Between the holiday shopping season now being in full swing and the growing number of retailers hit with data breaches Tripwire was surprised that a recent survey it conducted found a large percentage of retailers had no data breach response plan in place.
Three U.S. Senators have introduced a bill that would require jail time for corporate executives who do not notify consumers of a breach within 30 days.
U.K. Supermarket chain Morrison's was found liable, in a first of its kind data leak class action suit, for the actions of a former employee who stole and leaked company data.
A roundup of the top news stories in information security this week, including an emergency security patch issued by Apple, a new variant of Mirai making the rounds, and a data breach impacting 1.7 million accounts.
