Matt Hines

A collection of high-profile organizations including the United States Secret Service and the FBI, along with private companies such as IBM and LexisNexis, have formed a new research center aimed at stopping identity theft. Dubbed CIMP (Center for Identity Management and Information Protection), the effort will be headquartered at Utica College in Utica, New York, […]

Security applications maker Symantec introduced a new package aimed at helping companies prepare for emerging attacks such as so-called zero day exploits on June 28. Tabbed as the Symantec Threat and Vulnerability Management Program, the offering combines elements of the software manufacturer’s latest anti-virus and network intrusion applications with expertise garnered from its professional services […]

European law enforcement officials arrested three men believed to be behind the creation and distribution of multiple strands of malware code. The three men are also suspected of having operated a so-called botnet network built from the PCs that their viruses infected over the Internet. The British Metropolitan Police’s Computer Crime Unit, along with the […]

New research published by the Security Compliance Council contends that very few companies are succeeding in their initial efforts to meet the demands of government IT regulations. According to the report, which is based on interviews conducted with 671 executives working in IT, finance and legal positions at companies located around the globe, only 11 […]

Over half of all companies doing business in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors have experienced data breaches that potentially exposed their intellectual property or customer information, a new research report shows. According to the report, published by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, not only have many technology providers been hit with the same sorts of data […]

Even as high-profile data leaks grab headlines and compliance auditors begin making their rounds, many chief information security officers are preparing to trim their budgets. According to a new survey of North American CISOs released by New York-based investment bankers Merrill Lynch & Co., enterprises are hoping to throttle down their spending on new IT […]

Online payment company PayPal reported that it has fixed a Web site glitch through which the operators of a phishing scheme had been attempting to steal personal data of the company’s customers. According to officials for the eBay subsidiary, PayPal updated coding on its Web site to block a vulnerability that phishers based in South […]

Insurance provider American International Group has confirmed the theft of a file server and other hardware that held the personal information of approximately 970,000 potential customers. Company officials said an intruder entered one of its Midwest offices sometime after business hours in late March and walked off with a file server and other equipment, including […]

Malware attacks created using emerging Web development tools such as AJAX are expected to begin showing up more frequently, as writers of malicious code match the skills of their legitimate counterparts. With the arrival of the Yamanner virus targeting Yahoo Messenger on June 13, industry analysts and security software vendors say the era of what […]

From the nation’s largest financial services institutions to the local YMCA, legal and privacy experts maintain that organizations that inadvertently or secretly expose their customers’ data will increasingly face legal action. On June 6, the Department of Veterans Affairs was hit with two class action lawsuits related to the theft of an employee’s laptop computer. […]

Hotels.com and auditors at Ernst & Young are warning consumers of an incident that may have exposed the personal data of roughly 243,000 customers of the online travel site. According to the two companies, an Ernst & Young auditor working with the Hotels.com customer information had stolen from his car a laptop computer that was […]

Valence Media, which operates the file-sharing portal site TorrentSpy, has accused the Motion Picture Association of America of hiring a computer hacker to help garner information for use in the industry group’s copyright abuse against the site. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Valence and its […]