The acceptance speech of Apple CEO Tim Cook left a lasting impression during the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s (EPIC) Champions of Freedom event held in Washington on Tuesday (June 2), when Cook was honored with an award for corporate leadership by the non-profit research center....
Visa and FireEye have set their sights on helping merchants and issuers better protect themselves from payments breaches. And to do so, the companies announced their plans yesterday (June 3) to develop tools and services that will enable those two key groups to do so....
U.S. HealthWorks, a California-based health care service provider specializing in urgent care and occupational medicine, recently alerted employees to a data breach after a password protected (but unencrypted) laptop was stolen in April. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
Ahead of the October 2015 transition to the EMV liability standards, Intuit is offering the QuickBooks Mobile EMV Card reader, currently available to small businesses via pre-order. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
According to UK government research published this week, the average cost of the most severe online security breaches for a big business now starts at £1.46 million ($2.23 million)– up from £600,000 ($919 680) in 2014. With 90 percent of large organizations and 74 percent of...
When news broke that MasterCard’s $19 million security breach settlement with Target had come to a halt, there wasn’t much indication as to why — except that it didn’t get the necessary support. But a Wall Street Journal report yesterday (June 2), gave a bit more...
IRS is in the eye of the tiger, as the agency’s inspector general told Congress yesterday that the IRS failed to implement security upgrades to its computer systems, reported the Associated Press yesterday (June 2). At the end of May, the IRS announced that the data from...
Citigroup may wind down its Banamex USA operations as a part of a settlement with U.S. regulators amid allegations that the California-based unit has been beset by weak money laundering controls. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
Blockchain, the bitcoin wallet company, recently discovered it had sent $8,000 worth of bitcoins to a wrong address, which was a result of what the company called a security bug in its Android wallets. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
