Payments processing services company, Global Payments said late Sunday that information on up to 1.5 million card numbers may have been “exported” as a result of an unauthorised access into its processing system. Visa and MasterCard are alerting banks across the country about a recent major breach that could involve…
Global Payments claims fewer than 1.5m cards affected in data breach
Payments processing services company, Global Payments said late Sunday that information on up to 1.5 million card numbers may have been “exported” as a result of an unauthorised access into its processing system. Visa and MasterCard are alerting banks across the country about a recent major breach that could involve…
MasterCard, Visa credit card data thefts endanger millions of accounts
Law enforcement officials are investigating what appears to be a massive theft of U.S. consumers' credit card data, MasterCard confirmed Friday. The computer security expert who first reported the theft said it might involve 10 million MasterCard and Visa accounts, making it one of the largest credit card heists in…
California Says Child Welfare Data Is Missing
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Best Practices for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery – Nimble Storage
Learn now Nimble Storage provides a game-changing solution to data protection and disaster recovery, and watch a live demonstration of the technology. Nimble’s flash-optimized storage systems send highly-efficient snapshots over the network every 5 minutes (or interval of your choosing) so you will never lose more than just a few…
2012 Verizon DBIR: Hacktivists make impact on data breach statistics
The Verizon DBIR says hacktivists conduct opportunistic attacks targeting mainly large businesses using tactics akin to a smash-and-grab burglary, stealing any data they can access. View full post on SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily News View full post on National Cyber Security
Hacktivists Surpass Organized Crime in Volume of Data Theft
Cybercriminals continued to perpetrate the majority of attacks in 2011 — but hacktivists stole the most data, according to Verizon’s latest data breach report. View full post on eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security
New Android Malware Threatens Users’ Personal Data
New Android Malware Threatens Users’ Personal Data ( Page 1 of 2 ) Google’s Android mobile operating system continues to attract a growing number of malware threats as creators discover the ease of working with an open software environment. The result, as eWEEK noted, is a huge jump in malware…
‘Hacktivists’ pose biggest data breach threat, study finds
A tiny but motivated band of ‘hacktivists’ are supplanting professional criminals as the biggest single data breach threat to large enterprises, an analysis of hundreds of confirmed incident reports has found. On the face of it, the numbers in Verizon’s 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report (which covers 2011) suggest that…
Europe needs unified data security policy, says Neelie Kroes
Internet security cannot be left to the national security agencies said the EU’s digital agenda commissioner as she outlined her plans for a Europe-wide cybersecurity strategy. The Commission is due to present its plan for a European Strategy for Internet Security in the third quarter of this year, but Commissioner…