Chinese General Denies Cyber Attacks on U.S. U.S. News & World ReportChina’s military chief flatly denied on Monday his country’s participation in a hacking scheme targeting U.S. businesses, while also warning that missteps in the wester

Merkel urges global data protection deal  GlobalPost German Chancellor Angela Merkel has come out strongly in favour of an international agreement to protect electronic data, following revelations by fugitive former intelligence analyst Edward

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9 Most Recent Healthcare Data Breaches www.beckershospitalreview.com  By: Anuja Vaidya  Here are nine data breaches that occurred within the last month, starting with the most recent. Report: Syria Cyber Attacked Haifa’s Water System Ynetnew

Financial Times Suffers Cyber Attack Fox Business By: Jennifer Booton The attack comes amid growing risks online and among social media accounts as well as rising high-profile cyber attacks. Earlier this year, the Twitter accounts of Burger King

Hacker Suspect ‘Worked from Bunker’ Belfast Telegraph A Dutch citizen arrested in north-east Spain on suspicion of launching what is described as the biggest cyberattack in internet history operated from a bunker and had a van capable of hac

Hotels too Often Leave People Vulnerable to Identity Theft  HeraldNet By: Christopher Elliott  Large hotel chains will post their data protection policies online, “but they won’t make much sense to the average consumer,” said Richard Ald

Romania Believes Rival Nation Behind “MiniDuke” Cyber Attack Reuters By: Ioana Patran BUCHAREST – Romania believes another state was behind the “MiniDuke” cyber attack that hit its national security institutions as well as NATO and oth

Swartz Suicide Shines Light on Federal Anti-Hacking Law Computerworld By: Jaikumar Vijayan The suicide of Internet activist and pioneer Aaron Swartz has focused attention on what some activists say is the overzealous use of the federal Computer

FIRST ROUND TO EMPLOYER IN CASE OF ALLEGED DATA THEFT BY EMPLOYEE At the end of 2012, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion allowing an employer in Connecticut to bring suit in Connecticut against its employee for electronic data

Cyber Security Predictions 2013 BusinessTechGrant Brown, security practices expert at Symantec says that, as organisations and consumers increasingly rely on online platforms to drive interactions with one another, the risk of malicious attacks