Social media sites have ranked the lowest in public opinion when it comes to safeguarding personal data.

The cost of a data breach? $214 per compromised record and averaged $7.2 million per data breach event, says the Ponemon's U.S. Cost of a Data Breach report.

Purdue University has been awarded more than $1 million from the National Science Foundation to provide support for students seeking advanced degrees in information security.

A computer security breach has been reported at the University of South Carolina-Sumter.

More than six million Americans have been affected by security breaches of their protected electronic health information since August 2009, according to a recent report. Sixty-one percent of the breaches are a result of "malicious intent."

IT security staff at small and midsize businesses (SMBs) spend 127 hours every month managing their on-premises security infrastructure, according to a new survey by Webroot.

Identity theft declined in 2010, but victims were forced to pay more out-of-pocket when defrauded, according to a survey by Javelin Strategy & Research.

The operator of the Nasdaq Stock Market said it found "suspicious files" on its U.S. computer servers and determined that hackers could have affected one of its Internet-based client applications.

A recent survey from a research firm suggests the economy is less important to Americans than their online privacy.

To honor Data Privacy Day, Rebecca Herold, the Privacy Professor, reveals the top five privacy predictions for 2011: