The October 3, 2012, data breach might affect upward of 1.1 million people who were either Nationwide customers or sought a quote from the Ohio-based company.
The Government Accountability Office is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to reevaluate how they test electronic medical devices, especially regarding the risk of intentional attacks.
A recent Ponemon institute survey reported that while the cost for data breaches is trending downward, this does not apply to stolen healthcare information.
Thirty-one percent of data breaches are caused by simple loss or theft, a new Forrester study reports, and another 27 percent of incidents are caused by unwitting misuse of data by an employee.
New research from Dell SecureWorks finds that cyber espionage firms, often originating in China, are targeting critical infrastructure organizations, such as oil companies, in many different countries.
Taking advantage of an alleged vulnerability in DC power ports, Cody Brocious's technology could potentially access any of four to five million hotel rooms nationwide.
