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A report from Comparitech has looked into cyberattacks on educational institutions in the United States, finding that there have been more than 1,300 breaches since 2005 and more than 24 million records lost. California remains a hotspot, according to the report, "Yet Arizona becomes one of the worst-hit states with only slightly fewer people affected in its breaches than California. West Virginia and Georgia also display high numbers of records affected in contrast to the number of breaches with 1.3 million and 1.6 million records impacted, respectively. Other states with high numbers of records exposed or stolen in breaches include Ohio, Massachusetts, and Florida."
When Adobe released security updates for Magento last week, it warned that the Magento 1.x branch is reaching end-of-life and support on June 30, 2020, and that those were the final security patches available for Magento Commerce 1.14 and Magento Open Source 1. "If you have a store that continues to run on Magento 1 after June 30, please be aware that from that date forward you have increased responsibility for maintaining your site's security and PCI DSS compliance," Adobe warned.
Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report confirmed 3,950 data breaches across 16 industries. Tom Merritt explains five things to know about these breaches.
Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report confirmed 3,950 data breaches across 16 industries. Tom Merritt explains five things to know about these breaches.
A new report from digital identity platform ForgeRock shows how and where data breaches are affecting US businesses and their customers. With more than 5 billion records compromised in 2019, breaches cost US organizations more than $1.2 trillion.
Most breaches are now for financial gain, according to Verizon's report, with web application attacks also on the rise. The latest Data Breach Investigations Report from Verizon Business highlighted a number of alarming statistics about the data breach landscape and the actors behind attacks, finding two-fold increases in web application breaches as well as growth in the number of data breaches conducted for financial gain.
Verizon has released its annual Data Breach Investigations Report, which offers an overview of the cyber security incidents and data breaches that happened in/were discovered in the past year. The majority of data breaches are caused by credential theft, social attacks and errors.
The majority of data breaches are for financial gain-up from 71% in 2019, the annual report found. "We're seeing an awful lot of misconfiguration of cloud applications that actually makes the data that's housed in these cloud applications more susceptible to theft," Loveland said.
Demonstrating the fear and trust issues experienced by IT professionals, the study found that IT professionals are more concerned about the security of their company's data than the security of their own home. 78 percent of organizations use more than 50 discrete cybersecurity products to address security issues; 37 percent use more than 100 cybersecurity products.
The number of workforce identities in the enterprise is growing dramatically, largely driven by DevOps, automation, and an increase in enterprise connected devices, which will only continue to accelerate identity growth, an IDSA survey of 502 IT security and identity decision makers reveals. According to the study, the vast majority of IT security and identity professionals have experienced an identity-related breach at their company within the past two years, with nearly all of them reporting that they believe these breaches were preventable.