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Heartland Payment Systems' Big Breach & Lame PR Tactic Heartland Payment Systems' Big Breach & Lame PR Tactic

A recent breach at Princeton, N.J.-based payment processor Heartland Payment Systems, by some accounts, may have totaled tens of millions of individual credit and debit card transactions. And what does the company do? It pulls a cheap PR tactic by announcing the breach on inauguration day.

byGeorge V. Hulme, Contributing Writer

Jan 21, 2009

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Record Breach! Heartland Leak May Affect Millions Of Credit Records Record Breach! Heartland Leak May Affect Millions Of Credit Records

byKeith Ferrell

Jan 20, 2009

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U.S. To Sharpen Cyber-Weaponry U.S. To Sharpen Cyber-Weaponry

byGeorge V. Hulme, Contributing Writer

Jan 20, 2009

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Question The Internet Question The Internet

byThomas Claburn

Jan 20, 2009

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Largest Data Breach In History Tries To Hide Behind Inauguration Largest Data Breach In History Tries To Hide Behind Inauguration

byRich Mogull, Analyst & CEO, Securosis

Jan 20, 2009

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Application Security

Virtualization Driving SMB Storage Virtualization Driving SMB Storage

Jan 20, 2009

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Ask Not What Cybersecurity Can Do For You, Ask What You Can Do For Cybersecurity

Ask Not What Cybersecurity Can Do For You, Ask What You Can Do For Cybersecurity

byKeith Ferrell, Contributor

Botnets: A Look Ahead

Botnets: A Look Ahead

byGeorge V. Hulme, Contributing Writer

Downadup Worm Growth Explodes

Downadup Worm Growth Explodes

byGeorge V. Hulme, Contributing Writer

5 Ways To Stretch Your 2009 Security Budget

5 Ways To Stretch Your 2009 Security Budget

byRandy George, Director, IT Operations, Boston Red Sox

Worm Warning: New Would-be Botnet Growing Explosively

Worm Warning: New Would-be Botnet Growing Explosively

byKeith Ferrell, Contributor

If It Walks Like A Botnet

If It Walks Like A Botnet

byKelly Jackson Higgins, Editor-in-Chief, Dark Reading

The Downadup Worm Hits 3.5 Million

The Downadup Worm Hits 3.5 Million

byGeorge V. Hulme, Contributing Writer

Disaster Recovery Audits: Free Webinar Addresses What's Missing

Disaster Recovery Audits: Free Webinar Addresses What's Missing

byKeith Ferrell, Contributor

Paris Hilton's Site Hacked: Expect Much More of This Throughout 2009

Paris Hilton's Site Hacked: Expect Much More of This Throughout 2009

byGeorge V. Hulme, Contributing Writer

Geek Productivity Tough To Measure

Geek Productivity Tough To Measure

byJohn H. Sawyer, Contributing Writer, Dark Reading

Popup Phishing: Online Banking In-Session Phish Need No E-Mail Hook

Popup Phishing: Online Banking In-Session Phish Need No E-Mail Hook

byKeith Ferrell, Contributor

Futility Of Microsoft's Exploitability Index

Futility Of Microsoft's Exploitability Index

byGeorge V. Hulme, Contributing Writer

Application Security

Out Of Space? Thin Provisioning Vs. Traditional Provisioning

Out Of Space? Thin Provisioning Vs. Traditional Provisioning

byGeorge Crump, President, Storage Switzerland

New Year, New Fears (And Even More Of The Same Old Ones)

New Year, New Fears (And Even More Of The Same Old Ones)

byKeith Ferrell, Contributor

The List Developers Need To Know

The List Developers Need To Know

byGeorge V. Hulme, Contributing Writer

PCI Impact Brings Insurance Protection Offering

PCI Impact Brings Insurance Protection Offering

byJohn H. Sawyer, Contributing Writer, Dark Reading

Employee Data As Valuable As Customer Info... And Even More At Risk!

Employee Data As Valuable As Customer Info... And Even More At Risk!

byKeith Ferrell, Contributor

Microsoft's Light Patch Tuesday Offset By Oracle

Microsoft's Light Patch Tuesday Offset By Oracle

byGeorge V. Hulme, Contributing Writer

Campus Net Abuzz With BCS Win

Campus Net Abuzz With BCS Win

byJohn H. Sawyer, Contributing Writer, Dark Reading

CNN Gaza Spam Scam: Headlines Make Phishing Lines

CNN Gaza Spam Scam: Headlines Make Phishing Lines

byKeith Ferrell, Contributor

When It Comes To Development, Doesn't Anyone Learn From History?

When It Comes To Development, Doesn't Anyone Learn From History?

byGeorge V. Hulme, Contributing Writer

Bombshells For The New Year

Bombshells For The New Year

byKelly Jackson Higgins, Editor-in-Chief, Dark Reading

Social Net Security: Phishers Fake LinkedIn Profiles

Social Net Security: Phishers Fake LinkedIn Profiles

byKeith Ferrell, Contributor

Security Spending May Increase In 2009

Security Spending May Increase In 2009

byGeorge V. Hulme, Contributing Writer

You're Not Paranoid, Your Antivirus Just Doesn't Work Well

You're Not Paranoid, Your Antivirus Just Doesn't Work Well

byJohn H. Sawyer, Contributing Writer, Dark Reading

Application Security

Green Is A 'Nice To Have'

Green Is A 'Nice To Have'

byGeorge Crump, President, Storage Switzerland

The Twitter Hack: One Thing You Need To Do

The Twitter Hack: One Thing You Need To Do

byGeorge V. Hulme, Contributing Writer

bySteve Stasiukonis, Contributor

Twitter Hacks Raise Social Net Security Flags

Twitter Hacks Raise Social Net Security Flags

byKeith Ferrell, Contributor

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