Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel's resignation Monday as president, CEO and chairman of the Board of the company likely isn't a sign that boards of directors are now holding chief executives accountable for massive data breaches.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 06 May | Read more
The Internet of Things is likely to bring 'a major inflection point in security' sooner than you think.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 02 May | Read more
Unrelenting privacy concerns finally derailed a controversial big data initiative that promised to deliver more individualized instruction to public school students in the U.S.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 24 Apr | Read more
A battle for rights to U.S. airspace is brewing between the Federal Aviation Administration and organizations looking to operate small, unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, for commercial and other purposes.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 23 Apr | Read more
The Securities and Exchange Commission plans to review the cyber defenses of 50 Wall Street broker-dealers and investment advisers to determine whether they are prepared for potential cyber threats.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 22 Apr | Read more
The U.S. commercial drone industry is still struggling to get off the ground more than two years after President Obama signed into law a bill that permits the civilian use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) over the country's airspace.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 18 Apr | Read more
Android and IOS mobile applications are just as vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug as websites are, security vendor Trend Micro warned.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 12 Apr | Read more
Most enterprise security organizations are unlikely to have a spamming refrigerator on top of their list of things to worry about. But news earlier this year that an Internet-connected fridge was co-opted into a botnet that sent spam to tens of thousands of Internet users is sure to have piqued the interest of at least a few.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 08 Apr | Read more
Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency's data collection practices have eroded the public's trust in major technology companies -- and in the Internet, a Harris Interactive survey found.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 04 Apr | Read more
The Obama Administration has secured a 90-day extension of the National Security Agency's controversial authority to collect phone metadata records on U.S. customers under the Patriot Act.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 02 Apr | Read more
Civil liberties and privacy groups have long criticized the U.S. National Security Agency, but those critics became louder last summer after details of the agency's data collection activities were disclosed in classified documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 02 Apr | Read more
Industry efforts to shore up payment card security after the massive data breach at Target appear to be devolving into a battle over chip vs. PIN technology between retailers and credit card companies.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 27 Mar | Read more
Two banks that claim to have suffered losses from the recent data breach at Target have sued Trustwave Holdings Inc., the company that was responsible for validating Target's compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 26 Mar | Read more
For the second time in less than two years, Symantec Corp. has a new chief executive officer.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 20 Mar | Read more
Courts have generally tended to dismiss consumer class-action lawsuits filed against companies that suffer data breaches if victims can't show that the the breach directly caused a financial hit.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 17 Mar | Read more