Data Security

An organization's people are its strongest asset when it comes to both discovering and mitigating a breach, according to the panelists on SC Congress New York 2015's Your Organization is breached: Now on to threat detection and intelligence.

A North Carolina DHHS employee inadvertently sent an email containing personal information without first encrypting it.

A high school student has claimed to have hacked the private email account of CIA Director John Brennan where the student found a number of sensitive, government-related files, according to a report in the New York Post.

A group of Russian hackers are reported to have hacked Dow Jones & Co. servers in pursuit of embargoed market-moving information more than a year ago.

Community Catalysts of California is notifying more than a thousand clients that a flash drive containing their personal information was stolen.

Service Systems Associates released new details of a POS breach that affected 10 zoos and museums across the country earlier this year.

A laptop containing patient information was stolen from a physician who formerly worked for the University of Oklahoma Department of Urology.