Data Security

Dell's new threat report adds further evidence to support the observation that attackers are increasingly hiding activity within HTTPS.

Information security and the business need to be in a partnership, not a dictatorship with one party demanding the other follow certain rules and guidelines. Through a true partnership, information security risks can be mitigated and business disruptions limited, thereby creating an improved relationship and organizational efficacy. 

Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Chief Information Officer Donna Seymour resigned today, just days before she was scheduled to testify before the House panel investigating the massive OPM hack that took place last year.

Kankakee Valley REMC reported a possible data breach after a cybersecurity audit revealed a foreign IP address had accessed its network.

For the second time in three months a number of Spotify Premium customers had their account information leaked and posted on Pastebin.

Encryption is not a new invention. In fact, evidence of encrypted messages dates back to 1900 BC when the Egyptians wrote alternative symbols on pyramid walls to relay secret messages to one another. In modern times, though, encryption takes on a new meaning.

An anonymous researcher picked up a $25,633 bug bounty for discovery a critical vulnerability in Chrome (CVE-2016-1629), which Google has now patched in version 48.0.2564.

PCI DSS version 3.2, scheduled for release in the first half of 2016, likely March or April, will address the current threat landscape as well as "trending attacks causing compromises" detailed in current breach forensics reports.