OPM Warned About Vulnerabilities, Governance Weaknesses

It’s hardly a surprise that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management OPM was targeted by nation-state hackers, given the sensitivity of the personal information the office stored. It’s also no shocker that OPM has been successfully infiltrated more than once given the state of its information...

Software Security Programs May Not Be Worth the Investment for Many Companies

SAN FRANCISCO–The discipline of software security has been gaining traction in a lot of organizations both large and small in recent years, thanks in part to the success that vendors such as Microsoft, Adobe and others have had with it. However, for many companies, the time and money spent on...

Kevin Mitnick's latest Book : Ghost in the Wires - My Adventures As The World's Most Wanted Hacker !

Kevin Mitnick's latest Book : Ghost in the Wires - My Adventures As The World's Most Wanted Hacker ! Kevin Mitnick, the world's most wanted computer hacker, managed to hack into some of the country's most powerful - and seemingly impenetrable - agencies and companies. By conning employees into...

Attackers Find Point-of-Sale Software an Easy Target

While most consumers worry about their credit card or debit card numbers or other valuable data being stolen from their home computers or leaked via a data breach at their banks, a new report shows that the vast majority of attacks that harvest this sensitive data actually target weak software on...

Security Pros React to Potential Federal Data Law

A federal cybersecurity law edged closer to reality late last week when the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill to protect the personal data of Americans. The bill is a bipartisan effort sponsored by Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and co-sponsored by former Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, th...