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Third Party Breaches Can Have Long Term Impact on Cost Breaches happen in minutes. Lawsuits happen for years. The total costs of Target's 2013 data breach of 40 million customer credit card numbers will continue to be an unknown... Keep Reading

Given the volume of embarrassing and financially impactful breaches over the last few years, security leaders are getting fresh and unparalleled attention. Security teams have been clamoring to be heard by corporate leaders and ex... Keep Reading

Vendor management offices, risk management programs, and security leaders are all being asked to manage third party risks buried in business units. They are all looking at it from their own unique, but disparate disciplines and po... Keep Reading

by Alexander HeidChief Research OfficerSecurityScorecard.com (NEW YORK, NY) - During April 2015, Verizon released their annual breach report which identifies ongoing trends within enterprise cyber attacks. This year, the primary ... Keep Reading

By DEBORAH GAGE When Aleksandr Yampolskiy headed security and compliance for Gilt Groupe Inc., a members-only online shopping site, he said he would lie awake at night worrying. Even if he had done a good job protecting his own ... Keep Reading

by Elizabeth Weise, USATODAY Health insurer Anthem said hackers infiltrated its computer network and gained access to a host of personal information for customers and employees, including CEO Joseph Swedish. SAN FRANCISCO &mdash... Keep Reading

Recently LinkedIn has been flooded with malicious actors using fake accounts pretending to business individuals in legitimate institutions in order to engage in an interesting variant of “419”-style phishing attacks. The attackers... Keep Reading

Anne FieldContributor 2014 was, of course, quite the year for revelations about cyber attacks and data breaches at major companies like Sony , JP Morgan Chase , Home Depot HD -2.13%, and a host of others. But there also have been... Keep Reading

Pilfered card data, Zip codes used by fraudsters to pick stores close to victims. by Sean Gallagher - Dec 4, 2014 12:42pm EST Credit card breaches are the gift that keeps on giving—to Eastern European cybercriminals... Keep Reading

BY CADIE THOMPSON Retail hacks have consumers thinking twice about how they will shop this holiday season. After a year of breaches, consumers don't feel safe anymore when shopping online, and some are even straying from their f... Keep Reading