• Microsoft brushes off claim Xbox Live accounts were compromised

  By Jeremy Kirk | 24 May, 2013 02:32

  Microsoft brushed off a dubious hacker's claim on Thursday that he stole 47 million account credentials for Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service.

• DHS warns employees that years-old database hole puts their privacy at risk

  By Ellen Messmer | 23 May, 2013 22:28 | 1 Comment

  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Thursday said it has notified employees and others with DHS clearance to be on alert for potential fraud due to a vulnerability discovered in software used by a vendor to process personally identifiable information (PII) for background investigations. The software hole in had been there since July 2009.

• Twitter aims to become safer with two-step sign-in

  By Zach Miners | 22 May, 2013 22:56

  Twitter, in a much-needed move to keep its users safer from cyberattacks, is introducing a more secure login process.

• Govt asks industry for help to stem security breaches

  By Stephen Bell | 20 May, 2013 18:31

  IT security firms have been asked to put themselves up for membership of a special-purpose panel to provide security services across all of government.

• Yahoo Japan says 22 million user IDs may have been stolen

  By Jay Alabaster | 20 May, 2013 04:07

  Yahoo Japan, the country's largest Web portal, said up to 22 million user IDs may have been leaked during a hack that was discovered last week.

• IT Concerns About Targeted Malware Rising

  By Thor Olavsrud | 28 March, 2013 13:30

  IT and security professionals are increasingly concerned about targeted malware and data breaches. What's worse is that their confidence in their ability to identify and stop them is waning.

• Chinese Government's Link to Cyber Espionage Clearer Than Ever

  By Thor Olavsrud | 20 February, 2013 16:09

  It's a common belief in the information security world that the Chinese government is behind many of the advanced persistent threats that target companies around the world in an effort to steal their IP and trade secrets. Now one security firm has come forward with years of evidence to link a prolific APT group to a unit inside the Chinese government.

• Security breach

  By Matt Rodgers | 22 September, 2011 09:00

  No company wants to be associated with a data breach, but if your systems are compromised the fallout can sometimes be more damaging than the act itself.

• Heartland CEO on data breach: QSAs let us down

  By Bill Brenner | 13 August, 2009 04:07

  For Heartland Payment Systems Inc. CEO Robert Carr, the year did not start off well, to say the least.

• It's the Information, Stupid

  By Jason Stradley | 04 June, 2009 03:23

  Over the past several years there have been changes in the business environment, causing fundamental alterations in how security organizations operate to protect the enterprises for which they have responsibility.

Whitepapers about data breach

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  2012 Data Breach Investigations Report

  A study conducted by Verizon RISK Team with cooperation from the Australian Federal Police, Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit, Irish Reporting & Information Security Service, Police Central e-Crime Unit and United States Secret Service. This year our DBIR includes more incidents, derived from more contributors, and represents a broader and more diverse geographical scope. The number of compromised records across these incidents skyrocketed back up to 174 million after reaching an all-time low (or high, depending on your point of view) in last year’s report of four million. In fact, 2011 boasts the second-highest data loss total since we started keeping track in 2004. Read this report.