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• Segregated healthcare networks rarely work, expert says

  While ideal for security, it would inhibit critical information sharing in integrated systems

  Taylor Armerding | 10 Jan | Read more

• Banks crack down on cyber-based account takeovers

  U.S. banks and their customers are doing a better job of protecting themselves against cyberattacks that result in thieves taking over commercial accounts, according to a survey released by the Financial Services-Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

  Grant Gross | 09 Jan | Read more

• Botnets for hire likely used in attacks against US banks, security firm says

  Evidence collected from a website that was recently used to flood U.S. banks with junk traffic suggests that the people behind the ongoing DDoS attack campaign against U.S. financial institutions -- thought by some to be the work of Iran -- are using botnets for hire.

  Lucian Constantin | 09 Jan | Read more

• Better business-government teamwork needed to categorically fight cyberthreats

  The Business Roundtable, the association of 210 chief executive officers whose companies account for more than $7.3 trillion in annual revenues and 16 million employees, today said that cyberthreats to their businesses have become so severe, a new way of sharing real time security information needs to be set up among companies and with the U.S. government.

  Ellen Messmer | 09 Jan | Read more

• Ransom, implant attack highlight need for healthcare security

  All healthcare data breaches are not equal.

  Taylor Armerding | 09 Jan | Read more

• Ransom, implant attack highlight need for healthcare security

  Reports find real healthcare breach damage is not in the statistics

  Taylor Armerding | 09 Jan | Read more

• DOD saves $100M a year with new Microsoft licensing deal

  The Department of Defense says it will save more than $100 million per year over the course of a three-year joint enterprise licensing agreement it has signed with Microsoft.

  Tim Greene | 04 Jan | Read more

• Growing confidence in cloud security

  Cloud computing is blowing into 2013 on the winds of confidence, with IT professionals increasingly convinced that the security controls are adequate, but still very, very leery.

  Ellen Messmer | 02 Jan | Read more

• Iranian official disputes report that power station was hit by virus attack

  A power station in the south of Iran has been hit by a cyberattack, an Iranian news agency reported Tuesday, citing a local civil defense official. But now agency and official are in dispute over whether he really made the remarks.

  Peter Sayer | 26 Dec | Read more

• Stabuniq malware found on servers at U.S. financial institutions

  Security researchers from Symantec have identified an information-stealing Trojan program that was used to infect computer servers belonging to various U.S. financial institutions.

  Lucian Constantin | 21 Dec | Read more

• Why one retailer is migrating away encryption to protect customer data

  For retailers, protecting customer payment-card information is critical, and encryption is the typically the way to do that today. But Crutchfield Corp, which sells electronics and other goods online and through catalogs, has decided to migrate away from encryption in favor of an alternative security technology known as tokenization in order to shield sensitive customer data.

  Ellen Messmer | 20 Dec | Read more

• Taking Healthcare IT Seriously Demands Culture Changes

  Healthcare is moving cautiously into cloud computing, virtualization, BYOD and other IT innovations. And there's good reason for the caution. Until an organization's IT leaders take meaningful steps to change what's typically seen as a lackadaisical privacy and security culture, the risk of patient-information loss remains high and costly.

  Brian Eastwood | 19 Dec | Read more

• How to get the FTC's attention: Illegally robocall consumers while spoofing the agency's consumer hotline number

  Seems these folks just wanted the Federal Trade Commission to smack them down. The FTC today said it had a federal court shut down an illegal robocall operation that allegedly impersonated the agency in an attempt to trick consumers into turning over all manner of sensitive personal data.

  Michael Cooney | 03 Dec | Read more

• New extortion scheme using Citadel malware invokes Internet Crime Complaint Center

  The Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership with the FBI, today issued a warning about an uptick in a new version of Citadel malware that uses the IC3's good name to try and extort money from victims.

  Michael Cooney | 30 Nov | Read more

• Infuriated by Internet shutdown, Anonymous declares war on Syrian government websites worldwide

  The hactivist group Anonymous reacted angrily to the Internet shutdown yesterday in Syria, an act attributed to the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad in the civil war there. Anonymous basically declared war on the Syrian regime, saying it intends to obliterate "all Web assets belonging to the Assad regime that are NOT hosted in Syria," starting today.

  Ellen Messmer | 30 Nov | Read more