Data Breach news from FierceCIO

Cybercriminals have a new method to their madness. They are targeting the online bank accounts of small and medium sized businesses at unprecedented rates. A new survey by the Ponemon Institute and... Read more...

This is another case of a breach that shouldn't have happened but did. An unencrypted laptop which was stolen from an employee's home has led to a breach of information on 12,500 patients at Shands... Read more...

Congress is looking at ways to plug a hole that increasingly is letting hackers gain access to a company's data. A bill, passed in the House and awaiting action in the Senate, would require software... Read more...

Outside intruders from distant places may pose a great threat to company security, but there is often another culprit: Poor in-house account management. Security experts say there have been a number... Read more...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge are questioning a security system that credit card companies say gives additional security to credit card transactions. Called 3-D Secure (3DS), the... Read more...

In a remarkable twist to a cyber tale, a Texas bank is suing a customer for failing to protect its online account. The dispute involves Hillary Machinery Inc., of Plano, Texas, and Lubbock-based... Read more...

A new survey by U.K.-based Credant has confirmed what all of us have known all along: Workers are careless with their portable storage devices. Indeed, a staggering 4,500 USB flash drives were found... Read more...

The Identity Theft Resource Center's 2009 Breach Report found that hacking has topped human error as the top cause of reported data breaches for the first time since tracking began in 2007. It only... Read more...

It may have been a case of carelessness or thoughtlessness, but a Concord, N.H., financial services company is sounding alarms that user names and passwords were shared improperly and could have been... Read more...

There is little doubt that Cloud computing has entered the mainstream. As with virtualization, a number of large players have already launched or will be launching new products to cater to this... Read more...