Coreflood steals usernames, passwords and other private personal and financial information used for a variety of criminal purposes, including stealing funds from the compromised bank accounts.
As Congress and the White House look for ways to cut the federal budget, one area that could prove dicey is IT security, contends Department of Homeland Security's Philip Reitinger.
Sens. John Kerry and John McCain introdcued legislation that would balance individual privacy rights while allowing businesses to collect consumer information that could be used to market products and services.
CISOs today are evolving into strategic and risk managers, going far beyond the old-fashioned role of working solely within the IT department to manage and protect data.
Heartland Payment Systems hacker Albert Gonzalez seeks to overturn his conviction and 20-year sentence, a record for a computer breach, maintaining he committed his crimes with the knowledge of his Secret Service handlers.
Federal and state banking regulators closed two banks and one credit union on Friday, April 8. These failures raise the total number of failed institutions to 34 so far in 2011.
The Epsilon e-mail breach has opened the door for what experts fear could be 'massive spear phishing attacks.' Here are 7 security tips to help organizations protect themselves and their customers.
NCUA Chairwoman Debbie Matz urges credit unions to maintain a state of readiness and to work prudently and flexibly to address financial needs of federal workers and other individuals affected by the impasse on federal spending.
Experts say banks and retailers are doing all they can to control concerns in the aftermath of the Epsilon e-mail breach, and a well-crafted e-mail fooled an RSA employee into opening a phish that led to a sophisticated attack on the company's information systems.
Most furloughed federal employees would have had to turn in their BlackBerries and other mobile devices in a U.S. government shutdown. Just as well, using the technology could have resulted in an employee landing in the slammer.
Defining essential federal information systems to keep operating during a partial government shutdown could prove more complex than defining essential federal workers not to furlough.
At a time when there is heightened demand for cybersecurity professionals within the U.S. federal government, the value of IT security certifications ranks high as a criterion for hire.
Philip Reitinger, the top cybersecurity official in the Department of Homeland Security, is on a mission to help create a new, secure computing ecosystem on the Internet.
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