Security News

Mandarin Oriental suffers credit card breach (Help Net Security)
2015-03-05 11:28

Mandarin Oriental, the hotel group managing luxury hotels and resorts in Asia, Europe, the US and Latin America, has confirmed that "the credit card systems in an isolated number of our hotels in the ...

Fake guides and cracked apps on Google Play Books lead to malware (Help Net Security)
2015-03-05 10:04

Google has become pretty swift at finding and removing fake and malicious apps from its Google Play store, but there is one part of it where malware peddlers still seem to thrive: the "bookstore." ...

What security tools do healthcare organizations lack? (Help Net Security)
2015-03-05 09:20

The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has completed a three-month review of its approach to cyber risk management for the healthcare industry. The effort was focused on understanding the cha...

Banking Trojans target nearly 1,500 financial institutions (Help Net Security)
2015-03-05 08:48

Nine of the most common and sophisticated financial Trojans in use are targeting 1,467 financial institutions in 86 countries, says a Symantec report compiled after the analysis of 999 configuration f...

How DDoS attacks impact service providers (Help Net Security)
2015-03-05 08:44

There's a striking disparity between how threatened service providers feel by potential DDoS attacks and how prepared they are to mitigate one, according to a Black Lotus survey. The findings demonstr...

IoT architectures to impact analytics, stakeholders and infrastructure (Help Net Security)
2015-03-05 07:03

The opportunity of the Internet of Things (IoT) has everything to do with data. By distributing and diversifying data, IoT architectures will dramatically impact analytics, stakeholders and infrastruc...

5 tips to avoid identity theft (Help Net Security)
2015-03-05 06:59

"Tax fraud is widespread and happening as you read this," says security and identity theft expert for Credit Sesame, Neal O'Farrell. "In the first week of February, a grand jury indicted 16 people for...