Despite HIPAA privacy laws, data breaches are not only becoming more common within the medical community, hospitals and medical centers are slow to report the breaches to patients.

Financial institutions should be prepared to deal with security incidents involving physical facilities, network infrastructures, systems, applications, and most importantly, data, says Inno Eroraha, president of NetSecurity Corporation.

Organizations handling credit cards feel pressure building as the deadline for PCI Requirement 6.6 compliance, June 30, 2008, approaches.

Security researchers recently found a server being used to harvest private information consisting of stolen data from 40 international businesses, as well as health-related information on patients worldwide.

Credit card thieves are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in small retailers' point-of-sale check-out systems, according to a new report.

IT security vendors' sole purpose is to generate revenue -- not offer complete security -- and they will only create solutions to stop dangerous threats when they are incentivized to do so, the principal security strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems said Wednesday at Interop in Las Vegas.

User access is the number one IT security concern among healthcare workers, according to a study conducted by Courion.

The PCI Security Standards Council has clarified two key provisions of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard presents serious legal challenges and risk for retailers.

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council has officially taken over control of a new data security standard from Visa.