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Government auditors traced a malware infection back to a single porn-watching employee within the U.S. Geological Survey.
Both the Freebandz Gang and its crimes would have been quickly forgotten as garden variety larceny were it not for the way it stole people's identities.
Report fingers students and staff for academic cyber-attacks
Some merchants pay up to $2,000 for employees' secret services.
Often the biggest problem is not the threat of external hackers, but rather internal staff to whom you have granted access to sensitive data and who might be tempted to exploit it for financial gain.
It could be the engineer in IT, the janitor mopping the lobby, or the third-party contractor. Or maybe it's you. Who are the insider threats to businesses? And how can they be stopped?
Former archivist Greg Priore and Caliban Book Shop owner John Schulman accused of theft and related counts in alleged 20-year conspiracy.
Stalkers, fraudsters, saboteurs, and all nature of malicious insiders have put the hurt on some very high-profile employers.
Remember when privacy advocates used to worry about Google scanning your email? Well now, they have another problem on their hands: real people reading them.
A Portland, Oregon, family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon's Alexa – the voice-controlled smart speaker – and the recorded audio was sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle, who was in the family’s contact list.
Joshua Schulte uploaded CIA code to a personal website linked to his real name, archived versions of the site show.
FFS FACEBOOK.
The employee allegedly boasted he was a 'professional stalker.'
Before retiring from PenAir airline, Suzette Kugler set herself up with fake, high-privilege VPN user accounts that didn’t keep her secrets.
UIDAI says it is the sole custodian of citizen information. But state governments and police are using Aadhaar numbers to consolidate data, which is being stored without any coherent data security policy and is accessed by private players.
Library couldn't tell who the insider jerks were because they were using a "generic login."
Knowing security threats and what steps to take to proactively prevent security incidents is vital if personal healthcare information is to be kept safe.
Protecting security isn’t just a technical problem. It’s a social one.
Thirteen employees were fired in 2017 from the Medical University of South Carolina after administrators determined they had broken federal law by using patient records without permission, spying on patient