Data Security

A South Carolina attorney has amended a lawsuit to include compliance assessor Trustwave as a defendant, opening the door to whether a security provider can be held liable for a breach at a customer's site.

Missing information includes ultrasound images, names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of patients who visited two health facilities.

Wyndham's request that an FTC security complaint be dismissed, was met with a follow-up response from the commission.

Less than two weeks after the book giant revealed that PIN pads at dozens of its stores were compromised, four victims have filed lawsuits, alleging the company failed to properly protect their data and notify them in reasonable timeframe.

The strong perimeter defenses that for years defined network security have, for the most part, become merely a small inconvenience to those determined enough to get in.

As the probe deepens into the massive hack of the South Carolina Department of Revenue, forensic investigators have concluded that as many as 657,000 businesses may also have been impacted.

The old notions of defense-in-depth are being challenged, and architectures tend to have what appear to be single points of failure or compromise.

Unknown hackers stole an astonishing 3.6 million Social Security numbers in a state that has about 4.5 million residents.