A bipartisan group of senators who authored cybersecurity legislation last year plan to introduce a compromise cybersecurity bill that will be examined at a hearing next Thursday.
10 February 2012
Bank of America has informed affected credit card customers that their information may have been compromised by a breach at an unidentified merchant.
10 February 2012
A hacker group calling itself Swagg Security has publicly posted employee and customer login credentials and other personal information stolen from Foxconn, a Taiwanese manufacturer of the Apple iPhone and iPad.
10 February 2012
A US federal judge has granted the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) an accelerated briefing schedule for its lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over Google’s new privacy policy.
10 February 2012
A YouGov survey commissioned by SAS shows that the UK public are likely to trade privacy for security on the streets, but are wary of giving up privacy on the wire.
10 February 2012
Baroness Neville-Jones, the government’s special representative to business on cyber security, and a former security minister, says that the UK lacks adequate cyber security expertise.
10 February 2012
Security researcher Joshua Rubin has published details of his research showing a vulnerability in the Google Wallet near field communication payments system for Android.
10 February 2012
Google is keeping up its fast-and-furious Chrome development pace with the release of version 17, just two months after version 16 came out and one day after Chrome for Android was introduced.
09 February 2012
The US communications industry needs better information sharing, tax breaks, and liability protection from the federal government to improve cybersecurity, experts told a House panel on Wednesday.
09 February 2012
ODVA, an organization set up to improve industrial automation processes and security, has issued a set of cybersecurity guidelines for manufacturers and vendors to follow.
09 February 2012