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 ...
Vendors Fire Up Data Forensics
With CIOs in the financial sector coming under increasing pressure to lock down their data, more vendors are touting data forensics as a way to avoid embarrassing and costly storage snafus. (See Enterprises Suffer Breaches and Breaches Stress Need to Impro...
Report: Terror List Causes Gridlock
The watch list that is intended to keep suspected terrorists from entering the United States is too vague and cumbersome to help Homeland Security Department agents quickly weed out legitimate travelers, the agency"s inspector general says. Travelers who...
Man charged over medical college database theft
A 46-year-old man has been charged with stealing the membership database held at the American College of Physicians (ACP) in Philadelphia. William Bailey Jr. of North Carolina, faces a maximum sentence of 55 years in jail and $2.75 millionаin fines if fou...
540,000 New Yorkers at risk of identity theft after breach
The names, addresses and Social Security numbers of as many as 540,000 injured workers have been lost, and the state and a contracted company are trying to protect the workers from identity theft. In New York, company and state officials said Monday that t...
Researcher Developing Anti-RFID Device
Researchers in Amsterdam say they have completed a device that prevents radio frequency identification tags from being read. The university professor overseeing the project says the goal is to protect people from a technology that is gaining wide acceptanc...
Thirty-four States Have Passed Security Breach Notification Laws
Privacy & American Business' In-Depth Special Report analyzes who's affected and how the laws differ. July 20, 2006//Hackensack, NJ: The increasing number of data breaches and constituent concern over identity theft are pushing state legislators to ...