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  Image via Wikipedia Citigroup Inc.’s (C) brokerage and securities arm, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., has been fined $$650,000 by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). The fine is due to disclosure and supervisory violations associated with the operation of its Direct Borrow Program (DBP). It was the first such enforcement action by FINRA involving [...]

Heartland Payment Systems Inc., a New Jersey-based payments processor, has agreed to pay up to roughly $60 million to cover losses caused to Visa Inc. credit and debit cardholders as a result of a huge 2008 security breach, the companies have announced. Image via Wikipedia The settlement agreement is contingent upon acceptance by financial institutions [...]

Data being crunched by Cobit-authors ISACA will reveal that although enterprises believe they are realising value from their IT investments they cannot be sure, because most of them fail to fully measure it. Image via Wikipedia   When details of its findings are published later this week, Isaca’s report will show how in a nine-country [...]

Cloud computing, the ubiquity of mobile devices and the necessity of sharing real-time business information with Image via Wikipedia multiple partners, business units and customers has created gaping security holes in enterprise IP networks, according to a new study by IT research firm Yankee Group. In its whitepaper titled “IP Network Configuration and Vulnerabilities: What [...]

The largest health insurer in Massachusetts is warning roughly 39,000 physicians and other health care providers in th Image by Getty Images via Daylife e state that personal information, including Social Security numbers, may have been compromised after a laptop containing the data was stolen in August from an employee of the Blue Cross and [...]