Data Security

Anthony Di Bello of Guidance Software talks about incident response with executive editor, Dan Kaplan, at the SC Magazine offices.

Stolen laptop at Apria Healthcare exposes patient data

Though Gauss's encrypted payload continues to perplex researchers, Kaspersky Lab has unveiled a free tool to detect the malware.

The whistleblower site, in the midst of publishing revelatory emails belonging to intelligence company Stratfor, has signed up with DDoS mitigation service CloudFlare.

Students, vendors and others who received payments from the University of Arizona last year had their personal data posted to the school's public server.

The attacks are arriving as the whistleblower site continues publishing new information related to Stratfor, the global affairs firm that hacker collective Anonymous infiltrated late last year to steal roughly five million emails.

Gauss, which researchers have linked to Flame and Stuxnet, both believed to be built by the U.S. government, functions mainly as a banking trojan -- but it also contains a mystery encrypted payload.

The computer theft marks the second breach of patient data in a year at Stanford Hospital.