A unique breach of bank information has hit one of the world's largest banks.

Fueled by continued compliance demands and an evolving threat landscape, global software security revenue totaled $10.4 billion last year, a jump of nearly 20 percent, an analyst firm said Tuesday.

A California man has been indicted for a scam that bilked $50,000 -- a few pennies at a time -- from online brokerage companies E-Trade and Schwab.com.

At least two lawsuits have been filed against LendingTree in response to a data breach that occurred between October 2006 and early 2008.

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.

Former employees may have helped a small number of mortgage lenders gain access to the personal information of LendingTree customers by sharing passwords, the company admitted in a letter to victims.

Information security budgets are not in jeopardy, according to a survey of 300 network administrators.

Visa Risk Manager will address fraud losses and help issuers approve a greater number of legitimate credit and debit transactions.

Financial services companies are struggling to deal with a variety of challenges associated with authenticating and securing their customer accounts in an increasingly complex multichannel environment, a panel of IT security professionals said at this week's RSA Conference in San Francisco.

A laptop containing sensitive medical data that was stolen from a National Institute of Health (NIH) employee's car is indicative of a pervasive data-security problem facing both commercial and government organizations, according to security experts.