Next month the National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST)plans to put out for public review its draft for a new government encryption standard that,when finalized,is going to compel federal agencies with older websites to replace ...
Tags: NIST, EV certificates, encryption standard, TLS, PIV
Nearly half of enterprises that allow employee-owned devices to connect to a company's network have experienced a data breach, a study has revealed. Most of these companies reacted by restricting data access rights (45%) or installing ...
Tags: employee-owned devices, company's network, data breach, security software
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Torbay Care Trust (TCT) £175,000 for a data breach it said was "entirely avoidable". The Trust, based in Devon, had published "sensitive details" of over 1,000 employees on its ...
Hackers have accessed the personal details of 8.7 million mobile phone subscribers to South Korea's second largest telecommunications company. Police have arrested two people for allegedly hacking into the network system of KT ...
Australian telecommunications company AAPT has confirmed some business customer data was compromised in a breach of computer systems at an external service provider. The telco began investigating after hacktivist group Anonymous ...
Tags: AAPT, business customer data, computer systems, external service
WinMagic-sponsored study examined Total Cost of Ownership for full disk encryption for businesses around the world. MISSISSAUGA, ON, July 25, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- WinMagic Inc., the global innovator in full disk encryption, along ...
Nvidia said it is investigating the release of encrypted passwords from its user forums, another significant data breach following recent compromises at Yahoo and LinkedIn. A group calling itself Team Apollo posted on Pastebin around 800 ...
Tags: Nvidia, Cybercrime, Hacking, USA
Privacy advocates today welcomed news of a possible Google proposal to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges related to its surreptitious tracking of Apple Safari users. The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, ...
Tags: Google, USA, FTC, surreptitious tracking
A third of companies admit they have not invested in security for their virtual computing environments, a survey has revealed. This means many businesses are opening themselves up to the possibility of a serious and costly data breach, ...
Tags: security for virtual computing environments, Kaspersky, virtual servers