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Rutgers University researchers have performed the first study of free-form gesture passwords for smartphones in the field.

Home Depot agreed to pay at least $19.5 million to compensate U.S. consumers harmed by a 2014 data breach affecting more than 50 million cardholders.
 

A new Dell report found that though the C-suite recognizes the benefits of data security, organizations are still struggling to develop programs that effectively incorporate security strategies without detracting from other business initiatives.

Cybersecurity is now front and center on organizations’ boardroom agendas, but most CISOs have yet to earn a seat at the table.

For a number of automakers, 2015 was a prime year for learning of vehicle vulnerabilities, yet nearly three-quarters of consumers are not able to recall any instance of car hacking in the past year.
 

The NIST Framework lists “awareness and training” as a key component of network protection. But how do you go about it? 

Fifty-four percent of respondents in The Global Study on the State of Payment Data Security, conducted by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of Gemalto, have had a security or data breach involving payment data an average of four times in the past two years. 

Berkeley Research Group announced the addition of five of the world’s foremost cyber security experts.

A study of 17 major banks by the University of New Haven Cyber Forensic Research and Education Group shows that six of them have weak password handling and that their password procedures are weaker than most social websites.

A vendor breach can be every bit as devastating as a breach taking place within your own enterprise.