Power Industry Gets Security Standard
Move over HIPAA, SOX, and PCI. There"s a new security compliance standard in town. After nearly three years of consideration, the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) has finalized its Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) specifications,...
Armstrong: Stolen laptop had personal info on 12,000 workers
A laptop stolen from a payroll auditor contains personal information regarding about 12,000 current and former Armstrong World Industries Inc. employees, the company said. The data includes home addresses and phone numbers, Social Security numbers and how...
Navy Computers With Personal Data Stolen
Two laptop computers with personal information on about 31,000 Navy recruiters and their prospective recruits were stolen from Navy offices in New Jersey in June and July, the Navy disclosed on Wednesday. It was the third time in little more than a month ...
GAO finds holes in privacy laws
A new Government Accountability Office report concludes that privacy laws do not fully protect personal data when sold by information resellers. GAO suggests that Congress tighten the laws and provide civil penalties to enforce them. The report, released ...
Missing laptop with data on 540,000 N.Y. state workers found
A laptop computer containing personal information on more than half a million New York state workers has been found after it disappeared May 9 from the offices of a third-party data management company. In a statement today, the company -- Chicago-based CS...
Trojan claims to be Firefox extension, sends out personal info
A newly discovered trojan is taking advantage of the growing popularity of Mozilla"s Firefox, claiming to be a browser extension to infect PCs. The trojan, called FormSpy by McAfee, is downloaded to PCs already infected with the Downloader-AXM trojan, acc...
Hackers Holding Data For Ransom On The Rise
Attacks where criminals hold kidnapped data for ransom are becoming more sophisticated, a security company said Tuesday. It"s only a matter of time before hackers have the upper hand. Although "ransomware" remains relatively rare, Moscow-based Kaspersky ...