Last summer Capital One Financial Corp. was the victim of a massive data breach encompassing more than 100 million credit card applications and revealing 140,000 Social Security numbers. The cause: a ...

Nearly every application has at least one vulnerability or misconfiguration that affects security and a quarter of application tests found a highly or critically severe vulnerability, a new study ...

Doing security right is cheaper than trying to recover from a data breach — and the stakes keep getting higher. Recent moves by the courts indicate that organizations are expected to take adequate ...

An exposed database at automotive giant Honda allowed anyone to see which systems on its network were vulnerable to unpatched security flaws, potentially giving hackers insider knowledge of the ...

Cyber actors routinely exploit poor security configurations (either misconfigured or left unsecured), weak controls, and other poor cyber hygiene practices to gain initial access or as part of other ...

COMPUTER security is a contradiction in terms. Consider the past year alone: cyberthieves stole $81m from the central bank of Bangladesh; the $4.8bn takeover of Yahoo, an internet firm, by Verizon, a ...

Supply chains are only as strong as their weakest link. According to research from the Ponemon Institute and Mastercard’s RiskRecon, as cited by VentureBeat, 59% of data breaches happen via ...

Commercial shipping vessels have such poor cyber security it's possible to track them down and hack into them via poorly secured communications systems. Ken Munro, a security researcher at Pen Test ...

WASHINGTON — Stricter controls are needed to secure the online personal information that the Department of Veterans Affairs collects and maintains on millions of veterans enrolled in its health care ...

Paranoid cryptocurrency traders might want to go the extra mile and set up an even stronger password than their preferred exchange desk suggests. New research indicates that most exchanges in the ...

The biggest threat to online safety is poor cyber security, according to Ciaran Martin, CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). “We have got to get away from fear-based cyber security as ...

Half of IT leaders say passwords too weak for security purposes Your email has been sent Passwords have long been a poor way to protect sensitive accounts and data ...