"Irresponsible" and "negligent" Kaiser Permanente of Northern California pays $200,000 for exposing patient information.

A previously unheard-of advocacy group discovered a security hole in the CVS Corp. (the pharmacy firm) web site.

The theft of 40 million credit cards from CardSystems Solutions is an outrage, but there's nothing new or unique about it. Just ask Eli Lilly.

40 Million consumers may have an increased fraud risk due to a security breach at one of MasterCard's vendors.

A bunch of security and technology experts question the need for third-party privacy audits of federal agencies?

Many companies have avoided encrypting their data files because of costs. What's the cost of not encrypting?

More banks losing customer data.

Is Iron Mountain a weak link in the rash of data storage problems?