Articles Tagged with ''data security''

Four Russian nationals and a Ukrainian have been charged with running a sophisticated hacking organization that over seven years penetrated computer networks of more than a dozen major American and international corporations.

The Obama administration acknowledged that it is collecting a massive amount of telephone records from at least one telephone carrier, saying it's necessary to protect Americans against attack.

According to research by Unisys Corporation , a majority of Americans are concerned about data breaches involving large organizations, but are evenly mixed on whether legislation should require private businesses to share cyber attack information with the government.

The usernames of 22 million people may have been stolen from Yahoo Japan.

A vulnerability in a school records system could reveal the home address, social insurance number, telephone number and class schedule of any student enrolled, but when Hamed Al-Khabaz revealed and tested the flaw, he was expelled.

88% of TMT companies think they aren't vulnerable, but more than half had a security breach last year.

The Secret Service is the target of an investigation involving the loss of two backup computer tapes left on a Washington, D.C., Metro train.

94 percent of healthcare organizations surveyed have suffered at least one data breach in the last year, according to the Ponemon report.

While more executives are taking charge of cloud computing strategies, IT has not been ruled out of the equation.