Data Security

Bob Carr, CEO of Heartland Payment Systems, which suffered a record-breaking breach in 2008, has rolled out a new payment solution to its merchants that offers end-to-end encryption of sensitive transaction data. In an interview with SC Magazine's Deputy Editor Dan Kaplan, Carr discusses the new offering and offers an update on the company's recovery 18 months after it announced the breach, which exposed some 130 million records.

Check Point Software Technologies on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Waltham, Mass.-based security startup Liquid Machines. Israel-based CheckPoint made the acquisition to bolster its existing data security portfolio. Liquid Machines' technology is expected to be integrated into a future Check Point product suite, due out in 2011, that would enable the secure sharing of documents. Terms of the deal were not announced. — AM

A computer containing an archived cache of thousands of Social Security numbers was found to be under the control of a botnet.

Think of the Gulf oil spill as a breach not spewing barrels of a viscous liquid but lots of credit card numbers. How does your organization plan to respond from a public relations perspective?

The city of Charlotte, N.C. recently notified thousands of current and former city employees that their personal information went missing in the mail.

American Express may be in hot water after a computer engineer discovered a portion of the card brand's website, which claims to be secure, is sending private information in clear text.

Surfing the web on an unsecured public connection may soon yield adware, researchers at the University of Calgary have predicted.