Data Security

Researchers from five universities have published a paper demonstrating full key recovery for libgcrypt's implementation of RSA-1024.

Depending on your source, insider threat accounts for anywhere from 27% - 77% of all breaches. Despite the disparity in agreement about size of the problem, most security practitioners agree that the difficulty identifying insider threat is greater than identifying external threats.  

Though the AA's shop was reportedly leaking payment card data, the motoring association did not alert customers.

A GDS spokeswoman claimed that other government websites had not been affected in the breach, which exposed usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords.

A look at the career path of information security executive Kristy Westphal.