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Last July, the Office of Personnel Management announced it had discovered a huge data breach: The background check records of current, former, and prospective federal employees and contractors [...]

Which causes business leaders to buy into an IT security assessment quicker: ransomware or a data breach? Both. Unfortunately, that’s just the situation a regional health care provider [...]

Coffee shop Wi-Fi is evil. So is every other public Wi-Fi. That’s because open Wi-Fi has no security. Full stop, period. We’ve all heard that we should be careful about what we do on public [...]

Though your company’s sensitive data is closely guarded, locked away behind firewalls and password-protected portals, there’s another threat that should keep you up at night. That gnawing feeling [...]

Goodbye, strips, and hello, chips. The shift of Europay, MasterCard, and Visa (EMV) liability occurs on Oct. 1, 2015, and could leave retailers on the hook for fraudulent credit card [...]

Cops and citizens agree: Body cameras for law enforcement agents have many benefits. These smartphone-size cameras help police departments assemble concrete evidence and accurately conduct [...]

You sit down, ready to save a file to a USB drive so you can finish up a project over the weekend. You’ve experienced the dreaded security lock that prevented access to a web page, but now you [...]

Most of the highly publicized data breaches involve credit card or bank account numbers, but other sensitive data is also at risk, including Social Security numbers, medical records, personal [...]

Network security is critical for any organization, but in the health care space, with the personal and medical details of millions of individuals in the balance, the stakes are even higher. [...]