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Breach reporting: Now companies have to do it

Consumer advocates as well as many business groups have attempted to get federal laws adopted in the United States that would mandate disclosure of security breaches in which some types of private information about identifiable people are exposed. In spite of the obvious logic of having a national standard, these efforts so far have failed.

By Scott Bradner | 18 October, 2011 06:29

Tags: ChoicePoint, data breaches, security
Verizon's 12-step program for thwarting data breaches

Verizon's just-released "2011 Data Breach Investigations Report" says businesses could prevent most data breaches if they stick to security principles that are cheap and easy to implement.

By Tim Greene | 19 April, 2011 15:04

Tags: data breaches, skype, security, legal, anti-malware, cybercrime
Westpac urges PCI compliance in wake of Lush breach

Online retailers should use a PCI-compliance payment gateway for credit card transactions, or become compliant themselves, to avoid Lush-style data breaches, says the man at Westpac tasked with securing as many as 20 million credit card accounts.

By Rodney Gedda | 17 February, 2011 12:03

Tags: F5 Networks, data breaches, PCI compliance, Westpac, security, encryption, SSL, PCI, Qvalent
12 "White Hat" hackers you should know

These "White Hat" security researchers are ethical hackers whose discoveries and inventions shake things up — as they try to stay one step ahead of their underground "Black Hat" cousins…

By Ellen Messmer | 19 April, 2010 13:44

Tags: Vulnerabilities, hackers, data breaches, exploits, security
In data breaches, keeping number of records lost secret can protect stock prices

When companies publicly declare that they have suffered a data breach, it's best not to reveal how many individual records were involved if they don't want to take a hit in their stock prices, according to a study.

By Tim Greene | 15 April, 2010 07:35

Tags: data breaches, Heartland, security

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