One of the key tenets of the 6-year-old Payment Card Industry data security standard (PCI) is that merchants should never store unencrypted card data in their systems. But data generated from a recent ...

Many merchant payment systems lack the technology needed to safely store card data, resulting in 70% of merchants not meeting data security requirements, a new report says. SecurityMetrics, an Orem, ...

This article first appeared on CyberScoop. After multiple thefts and data breaches related to the unencrypted personal information of 7,400 U.S. veterans out of a Veterans Affairs hospital, an appeals ...

Sometime around Dec. 29, thieves stole an unencrypted hard drive with seven years of patient data from Denton Health Group, part of HealthTexas Provider Network, Healthcare IT News reports. The stolen ...

When hospitals transfer data in an unencrypted fashion, it leaves that information vulnerable to be breached through various means. Additionally, unencrypted data can be tampered with during transit.

Datapp, a Windows program developed at the University of New Haven, sniffs out unencrypted mobile data sent over HTTP. Last fall, researchers at the University of New Haven’s Cyber Forensics Research ...

a) Only very limited data is actually sent in the clear for a short time. Capturing or tampering with this data would seem to be challenging and of limited utility. This seems like an oversight or ...

While we’d mentioned it before it made headlines, for most people DeepSeek came out of nowhere and overnight became the most downloaded iPhone app. AI researchers were shocked at the capabilities of ...

Connected cars are great—at least until some company leaves unencrypted location data on the Internet for anyone to find. That’s what happened with over 800,000 EVs manufactured by the Volkswagen ...

IT contractor EDS has lost a hard drive containing unencrypted Ministry of Defence data. According to press reports, the drive contained sensitive information on approximately 100,000 armed-forces ...

Marriott International said Friday that 5.25 million unencrypted passport numbers were stolen as part of a data breach it disclosed in November — but it also walked back the total number of people ...

Hot on the heels of last week’s security issues, dating app Grindr is under fire again for inappropriate sharing of HIV status with third parties (not advertisers, as I had written here before) and ...