http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/172/all xx http://www.itworld.com/security/82581/judge-says-td-ameritrades-proposed-security-fixes-not-enough A federal judge's rejection of a proposed settlement by TD Ameritrade Inc. in a data breach lawsuit marks the second time in recent months where a court has weighed in on what it consider to be basic security standards for protecting data. http://www.itworld.com/security/82581/judge-says-td-ameritrades-proposed-security-fixes-not-enough#comments Legal Security News data breach data protection privacy issues Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:11:47 -0400 ITworld staff 82581 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/82371/500000-job-hunters-details-exposed-guardian-hack Sensitive personal data belonging to 500,000 job hunters have been exposed after hackers attacked The Guardian's Jobs website. http://www.itworld.com/security/82371/500000-job-hunters-details-exposed-guardian-hack#comments Security News data breach privacy issues Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:15:54 -0400 ITworld staff 82371 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/legal/81471/choicepoint-pay-fine-second-data-breach Data broker ChoicePoint, the victim of a 2004 data breach affecting more than 160,000 U.S. residents, has agreed to strengthen its data security efforts and pay a fine for a second breach in 2008, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday. http://www.itworld.com/legal/81471/choicepoint-pay-fine-second-data-breach#comments Government Legal Security News ChoicePoint data breach Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:58:47 -0400 ITworld staff 81471 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/79856/lawsuits-over-heartland-data-breach-folded-one A lawsuit consolidating 16 separate class-action complaints brought by financial institutions against Heartland Payment Systems Inc. has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. http://www.itworld.com/security/79856/lawsuits-over-heartland-data-breach-folded-one#comments Legal Security News data breach Heartland Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:08:45 -0400 ITworld staff 79856 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/79791/how-stop-it-managers-going-rogue Nearly half of all data breaches come from inside an organization, which is why industry watchers say enterprise IT departments need to invest in technology that ensures no one person has all the power. http://www.itworld.com/security/79791/how-stop-it-managers-going-rogue#comments Networking Security Feature data breach Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:16:09 -0400 ITworld staff 79791 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/79703/house-members-seek-stronger-health-care-data-breach-notifications A House committee is voicing concern over a controversial provision in a recently passed health care breach notification bill that gives health care companies considerable discretion on whether to disclose a data breach. http://www.itworld.com/security/79703/house-members-seek-stronger-health-care-data-breach-notifications#comments Government Security News data breach health care privacy issues Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:42:27 -0400 ITworld staff 79703 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/79585/large-online-payroll-service-hacked In a somewhat unusual data breach, hackers recently stole the login credentials of an unknown number of customers of payroll processing company PayChoice Inc., and then attempted to use the data to steal additional information directly from the customers themselves. http://www.itworld.com/security/79585/large-online-payroll-service-hacked#comments Security News data breach Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:36:45 -0400 ITworld staff 79585 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/79270/old-credit-card-breaches-still-causing-headaches-banks-consumers Credit-card breaches take months to sort out. Banks often put accounts on fraud watch and reissue cards over a protracted period of time, MasterCard says. http://www.itworld.com/security/79270/old-credit-card-breaches-still-causing-headaches-banks-consumers#comments Security News data breach Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:38:53 -0400 ITworld staff 79270 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/78986/unc-data-breach-exposes-163000-ssns The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill today began notifying about 163,000 women about the potential compromise of their Social Security numbers and other personal information after a hacker breached a system containing the data. http://www.itworld.com/security/78986/unc-data-breach-exposes-163000-ssns#comments Security News data breach Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:27:22 -0400 ITworld staff 78986 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/government/78164/hhs-guts-health-care-breach-notification-law-groups-warn Privacy and civil rights advocates have accused the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of trying to neuter a landmark data breach notification law for health care organizations that is scheduled to go into effect next week. http://www.itworld.com/government/78164/hhs-guts-health-care-breach-notification-law-groups-warn#comments Government Security News data breach health care privacy Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:45:19 -0400 ITworld staff 78164 at http://www.itworld.com