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Hospital Hacker 'GhostExodus' Sentenced To 9 Years
Contract security guard installed malware on sensitive hospital systems to attack the Anonymous hacking collective.
Cyber Command Pursues 'Defensible' IT Architecture
The Defense agency's top executive outlines a series of initiatives, including development of a hardened IT architecture that incorporates cloud computing and thin clients.
Healthcare's Cloud Challenge
The industry has been slow to embrace cloud computing, but demand could grow.
Health Net Criticized For Data Loss Notification Delay
Nine computer drives containing personal data on nearly 2 million customers, employees, and healthcare providers apparently went missing Jan. 21, but the managed care organization didn't reveal the loss until March 14.
Google Issues Microsoft IE Warning
Activists using Microsoft Internet Explorer to access Google services are being targeted through an MHTML vulnerability.
Electronic Health Records Raise Security Risks
Consumer concerns about medical information privacy may be warranted, as many healthcare providers aren't doing enough to protect their data, finds CDW survey.
Google Again Sued Over Gmail Content Scanning
The latest complaint argues Google's disclosures are inadequate because nobody reads lengthy legal documents.
10 Massive Security Breaches
They make the news on a regular basis: incidents in which a company or government agency's security is breached, leading to a loss of information, personal records, or other data. There are many ways to measure the size or cost of a security breach. Some result in the loss of millions of data records, some affect millions of people, and some wind up costing the affected businesses a lot of money. Not to mention, the questions of you calculate the value of personal medical information vs. credit
Data Breach Costs Continue Climbing
Some of that cost may be unnecessary, a study has found.
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Everything You Need to Know About DNS AttacksIt's important to understand DNS, potential attacks against it, and the tools and techniques required to defend DNS infrastructure. This report answers all the questions you were afraid to ask.
Domain Name Service (DNS) is a critical part of any organization's digital infrastructure, but it's also one of the least understood. DNS is designed to be invisible to business professionals, IT stakeholders, and many security professionals, but DNS's threat surface is large and widely targeted.
Attackers are causing a great deal of damage with an array of attacks such as denial of service, DNS cache poisoning, DNS hijackin, DNS tunneling, and DNS dangling. They are using DNS infrastructure to take control of inbound and outbound communications and preventing users from accessing the applications they are looking for. To stop attacks on DNS, security teams need to shore up the organization's security hygiene around DNS infrastructure, implement controls such as DNSSEC, and monitor DNS traffic
Incident Readiness and Building Response Playbook
In this special report, learn the Xs and Os of any good security incident readiness and response playbook.
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