Schnucks, the Midwestern grocery store chain that revealed on March 30 it was the victim of a cyber attack, has gotten more bad news. Up to 2.4 million credit cards of its customers might have been compromised. Furthermore, the store just got slapped with two civil...
Hackers are becoming more organized and cyber threats have become more sophisticated, according to a new report by the Information Security Forum. The report also notes that criminals haven’t suffered a cut in their funding, though many companies have cut back on IT...
Another large scale security breach of a government agency has occurred, this time at a Veterans Affairs facility in Columbia, South Carolina. According to WIS-TV, the William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center has mailed letters to 7405 patients whose information...
Nearly all the states have breach notification laws, requiring a business that’s been hacked to notify persons whose sensitive information may have been compromised. The costs of notification can be extremely high. Estimates vary widely, but range from about...
One-quarter of Fortune 500 companies do not have specific policies in place on how to protect intellectual property from cyber attacks, according to a new study. Furthermore, one-third of the 500 have no policies on how to protect personal identifying information. ...
