Schnucks supermarket chain struggled to find breach that exposed 2.4M cards
The Schnucks supermarket chain struggled for two weeks to find the source of a breach that exposed credit and debit card information on as many as 2.4 million customers.
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White House signals it won't support CISPA in present form
In what's quickly turning out to be a replay of events from last year, the White House today signaled that it would not support the recently reintroduced Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in its present form.
House Intelligence panel OKs CISPA after closed door meeting
The U.S. House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday voted 18-2 in favor of a controversial information-sharing bill that was reintroduced in Congress this February after failing last year amid widespread protests from rights group and a White House veto threat.
DHS warns of spear-phishing campaign against energy companies
The Department of Homeland Security has a warning for organizations that post a lot of business and personal information on public web pages and social media sites: Don't do it.
Harvard to review privacy polices in wake of email search scandal
Harvard University President Drew Faust has ordered up a review of the university's email privacy polices amid disclosures that a secret search of some deans' email accounts was broader than originally acknowledged.
Prosecutors, others involved in Swartz case express safety, privacy concerns
The U.S government and two other entities involved in investigations leading to the indictment of the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz have asked a federal court in Boston to redact the names of people involved in the case from documents being sought by Swartz's estate and by some lawmakers.
Spamhaus attacks expose huge open DNS server dangers
Massive distributed denial of service attacks on Spamhaus this week focused widespread attention on the huge security threats posed by millions of poorly configured Internet Domain Name System servers.
Legal experts pitch in to appeal AT&T hacker's sentence
Legal experts are stepping in to help hacker Andrew Auernheimer appeal his 41 month prison sentence for illegally accessing emails and other data belonging to about 120,000 iPad subscribers of AT&T's networks.
South Korea cyberattacks hold lessons for US
US companies and government agencies can learn from the large-scale disruptions that have simultaneously hit several banks and media outlets in South Korea in the last 24 hours.
AT&T hacker seeks sentencing leniency
Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker who was convicted last November of illegally accessing emails and other data belonging to 120,000 iPad 3G owners from AT&T's networks is seeking leniency in his sentencing from the court.
Retailer faces uphill battle in $13M lawsuit against Visa, analyst says
Specialty retailer Genesco faces an uphill battle in its precedent-setting $13.3 million lawsuit against Visa USA Inc., a Garner analyst said this week.
Retailer hauls Visa to court over $13.3M fine for payment card data breach
Genesco, a specialty retailer of footwear, sports apparel and related accessories has sued Visa USA for $13.3 million in fines that were assessed against the company after a credit card data breach in 2010.
U.S. court says feds need reasonable suspicion to search laptops at borders
Less than six week after the Department of Homeland Security issued a civil rights impact assessment saying that the government needed no warrant or cause to search electronic devices at U.S. borders, a federal appellate court has ruled otherwise.
Harvard scrambles to explain why it secretly searched deans' emails
Harvard University officials scrambled Monday to contain the fallout from a damaging report in The Boston Globe over the weekend disclosing how administrators secretly accessed email accounts belonging to 16 resident deans at the university.
VA disputes charge that it transmits unencrypted personal data over public Internet
The Office of Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has disputed a finding by the agency's Inspector General that several