finance

Treasury, Fed Support Adoption of G-7 Cybersecurity Guidelines for the Financial Sector

The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on Tuesday expressed support for publication of the...
iot

Open Connectivity Foundation, AllSeen Alliance Merge: Will Unify IoT Frameworks

The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) and the AllSeen Alliance, two groups that have been developing separate open-source frameworks for standardizing the means by which...
iot

CSA Internet of Things Working Group Releases ‘Industry’s First’ Guidance for Securing IoT Products

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) last week released a guidance report titled, Future-proofing the Connected World: 13 Steps to Developing Secure IoT Products, created...
breach

Vera Bradley Hacked: Company Investigates Payment Card Breach

Fashion company Vera Bradley Inc. said Wednesday it is investigating a payment card breach that may have affected cards used at the retailer's stores...
bitcoin

Terbium Labs, Skry Partner on Security for Blockchain Tech

Dark web data intelligence provider Terbium Labs and Skry, a leading blockchain analytics and intelligence company, said Wednesday they have partnered to help financial...
johnson

Johnson & Johnson Issues Security Alert on Insulin Pump Warning of Vulnerability

Johnson & Johnson has issued a security alert on one of its insulin pumps, sending letters to consumers warning them of a vulnerability that hackers...
hacker

Hackers Behind Theft of NSA Tools ‘Upset’ as Bids Underwhelm

The person or persons behind the recent hack of the National Security Agency in which highly sensitive source code was stolen are rather “upset”...
selfie

Smile, Take Selfie, Pay: Mastercard Launches Selfie Payments in UK

Mastercard announced Monday the European roll out of Identity Check Mobile, a new payment technology application that uses biometrics like fingerprints or facial recognition...
iot

Cybersecurity Concerns May Hamper Use of IoT Devices – Report

A new report by the cyber arm of Auditing firm KPMG states that cybersecurity concerns may adversely affect the realization of the full potential...
open source

Cloudera, Intel Donate Apache Spot, Open Source Project for Cybersecurity

Cloudera, a global provider of secure data management and analytics platform built on Apache Hadoop and the latest open source technologies, said last week...