• Yahoo Japan says 22 million user IDs may have been stolen

  By Jay Alabaster | 20 May, 2013 04:07

  Yahoo Japan, the country's largest Web portal, said up to 22 million user IDs may have been leaked during a hack that was discovered last week.

• Payment card processors hacked in $45 million fraud

  By Jeremy Kirk | 10 May, 2013 02:28

  A vast debit card fraud scheme that allegedly netted $US45 million has been linked to the hacking of credit card processors in the US and India.

• The Onion explains how its Twitter account was hacked

  By Jeremy Kirk | 10 May, 2013 01:19

  Hackers who commandeered The Onion's Twitter account used simple but effective phishing attacks to obtain passwords, according to a writeup by the publisher's technology team.

• Name.com forces customers to reset passwords following security breach

  By Lucian Constantin | 09 May, 2013 11:55

  Domain registrar Name.com forced its customers to reset their account passwords on Wednesday following a security breach on the company's servers that might have resulted in customer information being compromised.

• Systems manager arrested for hacking former employer's network

  By Loek Essers | 03 May, 2013 10:24

  A 41-year-old man was arrested for allegedly disrupting his former employer's network after he was passed over for promotions, leading him to quit his job and take revenge, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said.

• IT Concerns About Targeted Malware Rising

  By Thor Olavsrud | 28 March, 2013 13:30

  IT and security professionals are increasingly concerned about targeted malware and data breaches. What's worse is that their confidence in their ability to identify and stop them is waning.

• Chinese Government's Link to Cyber Espionage Clearer Than Ever

  By Thor Olavsrud | 20 February, 2013 16:09

  It's a common belief in the information security world that the Chinese government is behind many of the advanced persistent threats that target companies around the world in an effort to steal their IP and trade secrets. Now one security firm has come forward with years of evidence to link a prolific APT group to a unit inside the Chinese government.

• Security breach

  By Matt Rodgers | 22 September, 2011 09:00

  No company wants to be associated with a data breach, but if your systems are compromised the fallout can sometimes be more damaging than the act itself.

• Heartland CEO on data breach: QSAs let us down

  By Bill Brenner | 13 August, 2009 04:07

  For Heartland Payment Systems Inc. CEO Robert Carr, the year did not start off well, to say the least.

• It's the Information, Stupid

  By Jason Stradley | 04 June, 2009 03:23

  Over the past several years there have been changes in the business environment, causing fundamental alterations in how security organizations operate to protect the enterprises for which they have responsibility.

Whitepapers about data breach

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  2012 Data Breach Investigations Report

  A study conducted by Verizon RISK Team with cooperation from the Australian Federal Police, Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit, Irish Reporting & Information Security Service, Police Central e-Crime Unit and United States Secret Service. This year our DBIR includes more incidents, derived from more contributors, and represents a broader and more diverse geographical scope. The number of compromised records across these incidents skyrocketed back up to 174 million after reaching an all-time low (or high, depending on your point of view) in last year’s report of four million. In fact, 2011 boasts the second-highest data loss total since we started keeping track in 2004. Read this report.