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See data breach.
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Global Payments financial hit over breach likely manageable
The payment processor blamed for a Visa and Mastercard data breach is expected to absorb any costs, analysts say.
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Visa, MasterCard warn of 'massive' security breach
U.S. banks have received warnings from Visa and MasterCard after a credit card processor was reportedly breached. The breach may involve more than 10 million compromised card numbers.
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Enterprises tapping identity technology as one way to recover after data breach
To recover from a data breach, companies are turning to a number of procedures and technologies including re-education, identity and access management, and expanded use of encryption, a Ponemon...
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GlobalSign: Breach confirmed, SSL certificates not compromised
GlobalSign admitted that though its public-facing website was hacked, leading to its own SSL certificates being revoked, its secure certificate infrastructure remained unharmed.
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Massive fines planned in European data breach crackdown
The European Commission could impose huge fines on companies who breach new data laws, currently under review, even if they are based in the United States.
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How safe is your surfing? Few SMBs have social networking security policy
Approximately 40 percent of small and midsize businesses have suffered a breach because of malware picked up by employees while visiting the Web, social networking sites.
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Real world prevention of data breaches
In order to battle against security issues a company needs to train end users, build a robust set of processes and put technical controls into place, according to Crendent Technology's Geoff Webb.
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Data breach costs rise with criminal attacks
Criminals are driving up the cost of data breaches for U.S. business, according to researchers at the Ponemon Institute and Symantec.
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Facebook 'hijack any live chat' serious bug forces downtime
Facebook chat is experiencing downtime due to a serious breach in privacy, where any user can view the live chat window for any of their friends.
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Data breaches: 2007 IT failure superstar
Data breaches represented the most important category of IT failure during 2007. The year 2007 saw spectacular failures, ranging from improperly-paid teachers at Arizona State University (ASU)...
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Most security breaches caused by careless human error
Security expert David Litchfield analyzed data breaches during 2007 and came up with interesting results: Word documents and spreadsheets mistakenly left on a web server or indexed by a search...
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Why we still invite data breaches
Sentrigo's Dan Sarel writes that enterprise security has been slow to realize the evolving nature of for-profit cyber hack attacks.
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TJX. Un-answered questions.
Repercussions from the biggest reported data breach incident in history are still being felt. Last month's arrest of a dealer in stolen credit cards in Istanbul is just one example of how...
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Universities rocked by data breaches
Ohio U., which has had 367,000 records compromised fires workers, reorganizes IT department.
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Windows RT may breach Microsoft-EU 'browser ballot' deal
The European Commission is keeping its eye on Microsoft, after a U.S. Senate subcommittee said it would investigate potential antitrust matters relating to Windows on ARM browsers.
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Hackers target Twitter spammers in massive account data breach
A massive breach has led to more than 55,000 Twitter accounts being published on the Web. But it appears the hackers may have targeted spammers over ordinary users.
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Over 1.5 million Visa, MasterCard credit card numbers stolen?
U.S.-based credit card processor company Global Payments is about to announce more details about the security breach that recently saw millions of credit card numbers stolen. It doesn't look good.
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Unpatched server led to GlobalSign breach
GlobalSign failed to update one of its web servers, which allowed a hacker to access it, and led to the company ceasing operations for more than a week.
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Once again into the breach...of trust: United Airlines manages to do it again
Cost efficiencies are fine, but not at the expense of the customers -- especially if it involves a serious service issue that can be at least mitigated by something that already had a proven benefit.
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Global Payments: Data breach is contained
Global Payments, at the center of a Visa and MasterCard security breach, held a call on Monday to say that the data breach suffered has been "contained".
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