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The Briar Group has come forward with confirmation that customers at its eight Boston-area restaurants may have had their credit card data stolen.Details on the security breach are limited but the company said the theft of credit card data "may have occurred from sometime in October 2013 to early November 2013."

The hardest part about security has always been that it is an insurance sale. Whether acting as a consultant, part of an internal security team, or a vendor – it’s always a sale. As security professionals, we are used to selling against the likelihood of painful things happening. We all know that pushing security upon organizations is like selling life insurance. We wag our fingers, tell stake-holders that “Pain will happen to you, sooner or later, so think of the...

BERLIN - The US National Security Agency has collected sensitive data on key telecommunications cables between Europe, north Africa and Asia, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported Sunday citing classified documents.

NEW YORK - A US judge ruled Friday that the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of telephone calls is lawful, fanning a legal conflict likely to be decided ultimately by the Supreme Court. Federal judge William Pauley in New York threw out a petition from the American Civil Liberties Union and said the program was vital in preventing an Al-Qaeda terror attack on American soil.

Following the recent disclosure of a massive data breach that affected nearly 40 million customers, retail giant Target has now confirmed that encrypted PIN data from card transactions was accessed by hackers.

Researchers have reportedly found a vulnerability in a security system embedded in Samsung's Galaxy S4 smartphone that could allow an attacker to steal data.

During the past few months, advancements in CryptoLocker put ransomware on the public's radar in a major way. But according to researchers at Trend Micro, enhancements in the world of ransomware have not stopped as the year as 2013 has come to a close.

At SecurityWeek, we believe it is more important for IT security teams to focus on resolutions rather than vendor predictions that are typically self-serving.

Promises of easy money should be taken with a grain of salt – especially when they come with a request to download a mobile app.

F-Secure Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen said he is cancelling his talk at the upcoming RSA security conference in February due to reports RSA received money from the NSA several years ago to use a flawed algorithm in RSA's BSAFE encryption product.

While your end users may act like children from time to time, your security practices shouldn’t treat them like they are. Gain visibility and control before being placed on the naughty list.

Armed with a fresh funding to the tune of $10 million from a recently announced Series A round of funding, Norse, a provider of threat intelligence solutions, has launched Norse IPViking 2.0, the next generation of the company’s cloud-based IT security solution, which provides “context-rich, dark-threat intelligence” to customers.

WASHINGTON - Just six months after first leaking National Security Agency secrets in a move that triggered a revaluation of US surveillance policies, Edward Snowden is declaring "mission's already accomplished."

In 2014, Will Your Security Team be Driving New Value, or Responding to Yesterday’s Threats? 

During the past several months, leaks about the NSA's electronic surveillance operations have pooled into a river that has spilled into calls for reform.

LJUBLJANA - A Slovenian court on Monday sentenced to 58 months in jail Matjaz Skorjanc, the creator of the "Mariposa Botnet", a vast network of virus-infected computers used by criminal hackers.

Casino operator Affinity Gaming has joined the growing list of businesses dealing with malicious hacker attacks against credit card and debit card systems.

The United States Army announced earlier this month that the Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER) Headquarters will be located at Fort Gordon, Ga, a move that brings together Army cyber and network operations under one commander for the first time in its history.

Massive Data Breach Renews Call for Adoption of Chip-based Payment Cards in The United States...

Making Incident Response a Top Priority and Developing a Policy and Process Can Limit The Damage Caused by a Data Breach.