The Marriott incident will open the door to loyalty program fraud, account takeover and myriad other risks, writes Michael Reitblat, co-founder and CEO of Forter.

Even the best technologies take time, making it necessary to rein in expectations about what will happen and won't happen in the coming year.

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee concluded that last year’s massive data breach at Equifax was fully preventable, but stopped short of recommending new laws aimed at averting future hacks. Democrats called the final report a “missed opportunity.”

Familiar recriminations and calls for legislation from lawmakers followed the massive hack of the Starwood hotel chain, but will Capitol Hill actually do anything?

The first wave of data from this year's holiday shopping season is in, providing insights into where the biggest fraud threats are likely to originate in the final weeks of the year.

It’s too soon for Marriott International Inc. to estimate the cost of the massive cyber breach that the company disclosed last week, and other companies that have suffered big attacks are imperfect proxies, said Chief Financial Officer Leeny Oberg at an investor conference today.

Since banks are under constant attack by hackers, the startup XM Cyber is offering them a simulator that seeks to do its virtual worst in order to prevent a real breach.

Businesses need to prove that they have taken all possible actions to inform and mitigate the damage during an event, writes Ryan Wilk, vice president of customer success for NuData Security, a Mastercard company.

U.S. banks and other financial firms are projecting higher spending on cybersecurity as they face bigger threats and more attacks.

An invisible payment becomes a lot more visible when it’s compromised, making Marriott’s data breach a threat to one of the most important innovations in retail, which should scare everyone from Uber to Amazon.