Cyberattacks

Rights groups, NGOs struggle against malware attacks

US Postal Service suffers breach of employee, customer data

Data breach affects names, Social Security numbers and other information of 800,000 employees, USPS says

Pirate Bay co-founder sentenced to 3.5 years imprisonment in Denmark

How to figure out if a data breach is a hoax

Gigamon says it can analyze attacker SSL traffic without hitting performance

PCI compliance under scrutiny following Big Data breaches

In the wake of numerous high-profile data breaches, some security experts question the effectiveness of PCI compliance. Should PCI standards do more than set a baseline for security -- and should they be given teeth for when companies don’t comply?

Cyber insurance: Worth it, but beware of the exclusions

Cyber insurance can offset the costs of a major data breach. But experts caution that it can only ease the pain, not eliminate it.

Researcher creates proof-of-concept worm for network-attached storage devices

Obama orders chip-and-PIN in government credit cards

Dorothy Gale on recent spate of data breaches