Gekko Group, a subsidiary of Accor Hotels, has suffered a major data breach that may have affected a customer base of 600,000 hotels worldwide.

PayMyTab recently exposed highly sensitive personally identifying information (PII) of consumers across the US that have dined in restaurants that have integrated the platform into their service.

Homeland Security Today announced selections for the 2019 Holiday Homeland Security Awards, including Federal Homeland Security Person of the Year Kevin McAleenan, former Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Despite their reputation as brute force attacks, Distributed Denial-of-Service incursions are increasingly diversifying as hackers learn that smaller, more targeted attacks often deliver the anticipated outcomes while going under the radar.

A new report from Tala Security predicts unprecedented levels of online data theft this holiday season due to a lack of deployed client-side security measures.

 

Popular retailer Macy's has been hacked. The company provided notice of data breach in a letter to customers. 

Government organizations were hit by the highest number of Domain Name Systems (DNS) attacks per year, says the Global DNS Threat Report.

The Information Security Forum (ISF) released its Using Cloud Services Securely: Harnessing Core Controls, which provides a comprehensive approach to securing cloud services for organizations that are considering using, or already actively use, one or multiple cloud service providers (CSPs).

Retailers will be particularly susceptible to cyber crime during the most lucrative shopping weekend of the year: Black Friday and Cyber Monday.