Mike Mitchell, new chair of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, says mobility is among his top priorities for action in 2012. How will emerging technologies influence the standard?
To build an effective information security program, organizations and leaders need to take seven essential steps, including updating a risk assessment, says consultant Tom Walsh.
Up to now, business and government have not paid much attention to hacktivists. But that's got to change. In fact, cybersecurity threats waged by hacktivists pose increasing concern.
How do fraudsters rationalize their actions, and do they feel guilt, stress, or even excitement when they actually cross that line into breaking the law? Read their answers to these questions and more.
Two of the American government's most IT-security sensitive organizations - the Army and National Security Agency - are looking for ways to employ smartphones to access selected IT systems.
For years, security experts have advised users to wipe their hard drives before discarding them. About 100 owners of one brand of tablets may have wished they did.
Verisign Inc. may have followed the letter of the law when revealing a series of breaches in an SEC filing. But the company that assures the flow of a hefty portion of Internet traffic should have been more forthright to ease the minds of its various constituencies.
One of the most important healthcare information breach prevention steps is to safeguard mobile devices and limit the data stored on them, says attorney David Szabo.
Establishing an effective security incident response program is a key component of an information risk management strategy. And NIST has issued draft guidelines to help organizations implement such a program.
The uproar over Google's latest privacy policy is much ado about nothing, especially the cry from some in Congress that the Internet company won't allow users to opt out of its new policy.
Regulators have hinted at it, and industry experts say it's coming. U.S. banking institutions can expect to see new guidance for mobile banking. The open questions are: When, and in what form?
"Iran's intelligence operations against the United States, including cyber capabilities, have dramatically increased in recent years in depth and complexity," National Intelligence Director James Clapper says.
Imagine if the shutdown of Wikipedia was involuntary, taken down by politically minded hackers, and not an intentional act of protest. What's the message of the blackout beyond the protest over anti-piracy legislation?
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