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Full recovery from breaches takes longer than expected
2024-11-21 04:00

In 2024, businesses reported taking an average of 7.3 months to recover from cybersecurity breaches – 25% longer than expected and over a month past the anticipated timeline of 5.9 months,...

T-Mobile confirms it was hacked in recent wave of telecom breaches
2024-11-16 17:47

T-Mobile confirms it was hacked in the wave of recently reported telecom breaches conducted by Chinese threat actors to gain access to private communications, call records, and law enforcement...

Identity-related data breaches cost more than average incidents
2024-11-06 04:00

Identity-related data breaches are more severe and costly than run-of-the-mill incidents, according to RSA. 40% of respondents reported an identity-related security breach. Of those, 66% reported...

Cisco says DevHub site leak won’t enable future breaches
2024-11-04 09:14

​Cisco says that non-public files recently downloaded by a threat actor from a misconfigured public-facing DevHub portal don't contain information that could be exploited in future breaches of the...

SEC charges tech companies for downplaying SolarWinds breaches
2024-10-22 18:31

The SEC has charged four companies—Unisys Corp, Avaya Holdings, Check Point Software, and Mimecast—for allegedly misleading investors about the impact of their breaches during the massive 2020...

Despite massive security spending, 44% of CISOs fail to detect breaches
2024-10-18 04:30

Despite global information security spending projected to reach $215 billion in 2024, 44% of CISOs surveyed reported they were unable to detect a data breach in the last 12 months using existing...

Data breaches trigger increase in cyber insurance claims
2024-10-15 03:30

Cyber claims have continued their upwards trend over the past year, driven in large part by a rise in data and privacy breach incidents, according to Allianz. Cyber claims frequency exceeds €1...

How to head off data breaches with CIAM
2024-10-14 09:00

Let Okta lift the lid on customer identity in this series of webinars Sponsored Post Recent reports suggest that stolen identity and privileged access credentials now account for 61 percent of all...

Marriott settles with FTC, to pay $52 million over data breaches
2024-10-10 18:57

Marriott International and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels will pay $52 million and create a comprehensive information security program as part of settlements for data breaches that impacted over...

Marriott settles for a piddly $52M after series of breaches affecting millions
2024-10-09 21:08

Intruders stayed for free on the network between 2014 and 2020 Marriott has agreed to pay a $52 million penalty and develop a comprehensive infosec program following a series of major data...