Hacking continues to be a costly problem for US businesses, according to a Ponemon Institute report released in October 2012. For each the businesses and organizations studied, the average cost of cyber crime is $8.9 million annually, an increase of 6% from last...
The White House was the victim of a cyber attack last month, but the perpetrators apparently failed to extract any information. A conservative news web site, the Washington Free Beacon, broke the story, reporting that hackers linked to the Chinese government...
September was a bad month for some of the nation’s biggest banks, as their web servers were hit with a large-scale assault by well-armed cyber attackers. Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan, PNC Financial Services Group, US Bancorp, and Wells Fargo – financial...
As you may have heard by now, LinkedIn notified its users last week that it had been hacked. Out of about 150 million users, approximate 6 million had their passwords stolen and posted on a hacker web site. The breach of the social networking giant should come as no...
The nation is woefully unprepared for a major cyber attack, according to a new report released by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Among 31 core capabilities identified as key for disaster responsiveness, cyber security came in dead last, with a...
