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Still Not Convinced the Cloud Is a Risky Place? Here Are Some Scary Numbers To Ponder.

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 29, 2011 at 8:15 am PT

The company that says cloud providers are in denial about risk has estimated the total costs from the recent Epsilon data breach. Here’s a hint: They’re big.

After the PlayStation Hack, a Legal Pile-On Against Sony

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 28, 2011 at 11:47 am PT

It didn’t take long for Sony to be served with its first lawsuit following the disclosure that its PlayStation Network was hacked. Meanwhile, the number of investigating regulators and outraged U.S. lawmakers is multiplying. Sony’s lawyers are going to be busy.

Sony To PlayStation Customers: Hackers Got Us, And Now You Too

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 26, 2011 at 1:51 pm PT

The hackers who brought Sony’s Playstation Network down for nearly a week have accessed customer information, the company says.

WordPress.com Suffers Security Breach

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 13, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

Automattic, which hosts WordPress.com and several other services, has come under attack–a root break-in providing deep access to its systems. The effects are still being assessed.

Congress Is Officially Paying Attention to the Epsilon Breach

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 7, 2011 at 1:46 pm PT

Have no fear, you consumers worried about the Epsilon data breach. Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota, and other members of Congress, are on the case.

Worries About Phishing Attacks Rise as Epsilon Data Breach Mess Goes On

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 6, 2011 at 4:01 pm PT

More companies are drawn into the Epsilon data breach. But don’t worry. Its parent, Allied Data Systems, says it expects “minimal impact” on its operations. Meanwhile, worries about phishing attacks against consumers remain high.

The List of Companies Affected by the Epsilon Breach Grows and Grows and Grows

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 4, 2011 at 12:57 pm PT

Best Buy. J.P. Morgan Chase. Citibank. Walgreens. Disney. Barclay’s Bank. U.S. Bancorp. Marriott. Ritz Carlton. L.L. Bean. Home Shopping Network. TiVo. If you’ve ever given your email address to any of them, watch your inbox for spearphishers.

RSA Explains How It Was Hacked

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 4, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

The security company RSA has described in detail how it came under the “extremely sophisticated attack” it first disclosed last month. Still unclear is what data was taken, and how seriously its products may or may not have been affected.

France to Google: Your CEO Is a Hamster and Your "Rogue Street View Engineer" Smells of Elderberries

John Paczkowski in News on March 21, 2011 at 11:21 am PT

It’s a pittance to Google, but the $142,000 fine France’s data privacy regulator slapped the company with today for inadvertently harvesting consumer data with its Street View cars does set something of a precedent. Meted out by France’s Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, or CNIL, the sanction is the agency’s highest ever and the first penalty levied against Google for data collection practices that have drawn complaints from dozens of countries.

Lawmakers Would Like a Word With Google's "Rogue" WiSpy Engineer

John Paczkowski in News on February 16, 2011 at 12:26 pm PT

Add two more names to the growing list of lawmakers crying foul over the Google WiSpy debacle. In a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, Reps. John Barrow (D-Ga.) and Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) urge the agency to conduct a full investigation into the inadvertent collection of user data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks by Google’s Street View cars.