No one likes to think about data breaches, but the fact is, they happen. Rather than cross your fingers and hope for the best, create an incident response plan ahead of time. Without a plan, you may destroy critical evidence that could be used to prosecute the...
IDG News Service – Hackers have broken into the website of the New York tour company CitySights NY and stolen about 110,000 bank card numbers. They broke in using a SQL Injection attack on the company’s Web server, CitySights NY said in a Dec. 9 breach...
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The virtual avalanche of social media has provided journalists with significant new newsgathering and reporting tools. Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and YouTube promote lively and immediate discourse and allow journalists to directly...
Financial institutions are falling victim to cyber attacks at a record pace in 2010. Through August, they recorded 42 documented data breaches. That’s on pace to surpass the 62 incidents reported in all of 2009, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center...
