New payment card malware hard to detect and remove
FireEye says it has discovered a type of malware designed to steal payment card data that can be very difficult to detect and remove.
Jeremy Kirk | 07 Dec | Read more
FireEye says it has discovered a type of malware designed to steal payment card data that can be very difficult to detect and remove.
Jeremy Kirk | 07 Dec | Read more
One of Europe's leading home-security providers is coming across the pond in a big way. The 10-year-old French manufacturer Myfox today announced the availability of its Myfox Home Security System and Myfox Security Camera at Amazon, Home Depot, and other online and brick-and-mortar retailers. From what I saw during a hands-on demo last week, I'm comfortable saying Myfox's offerings are innovative and very different from what's on the market today.
Michael Brown | 26 Jun | Read more
Telstra’s CSO Mike Burgess says it’s critical to avoid distractions when fighting against cybercriminals.
Anthony Caruana | 02 Jun | Read more
The hackers who stole personal data from health insurer Anthem stand to make a whole lot more than the ones who stole 56 million credit and debit card numbers from Home Depot because the potential payback per identity is so much greater.
Tim Greene | 07 Feb | Read more
IBM says there's good and bad news when it comes to retail cyber attacks: While overall network assaults are down by 50%, when they hit, cyber-attackers get a ton of data.
Michael Cooney | 07 Jan | Read more
The year of cybercrime since our most recent US State of Cybercrime Survey has been nothing less than stunning. There were the Home Depot and JP Morgan Chase data breaches, the Sony Pictures fiasco, and most recently the devastating breach at the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that appears to be worse than
George V. Hulme | 09 Jul | Read more
Virtually everything reported about data breaches is about how expensive they are.
Taylor Armerding | 09 Jun | Read more
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By Mike Paquette, VP of Security Products, Prelert | 05 Jun | Read more
When New Jersey's Provident Bank was founded in 1839, Martin Van Buren was president. The First Opium War was getting going in China. And, in Boston, the American Statistical Association was just being founded.
Maria Korolov | 04 Apr | Read more
A funny thing is happening in the wake of the <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2490179/security0/security0-the-snowden-leaks-a-timeline.html">Edward Snowden NSA revelations</a>, the infamous <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2601905/apple-icloud-take-reputation-hits-after-photo-scandal.html">iCloud hack of celebrity nude photos</a>, and the hit parade of customer data breaches at <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2490637/security0/target-finally-gets-its-first-ciso.html">Target</a>, <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2844491/home-depot-attackers-broke-in-using-a-vendors-stolen-credentials.html">Home Depot</a> and the <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2845621/government/us-postal-service-suffers-breach-of-employee-customer-data.html">U.S. Postal Service</a>. If it's not the government looking at your data, it's bored, lonely teenagers from the Internet or credit card fraudsters.
Matt Weinberger | 15 Nov | Read more