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Arrest in Epic Cyber Swindle

Siobhan Gorman, National Security Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 18, 2009 at 5:01 pm PT

A 28-year-old American, believed by prosecutors to be one of the nation’s cybercrime kingpins, was indicted Monday along with two Russian accomplices on charges that they carried out the largest hacking and identity-theft caper in U.S. history.

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Heartland Gets Religion on Security

Ben Worthen, Staff Writer, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 17, 2009 at 1:00 pm PT

Heartland Payment Systems CEO Bob Carr is an unlikely spokesman for tech security. But that’s what he’s emerging as. The credit-card processor suffered one of the largest data breaches ever disclosed last year. But rather than taking the time-honored approach of staying quiet and hoping that the negative publicity goes away, Carr is talking openly about what went wrong, the problems with the industry’s security standards, and a new product his company developed to help merchants protect customer data.