Security News

Hacking and malware cause 75% of all data breaches in the financial services industry
2019-12-17 06:00

Only 6% of all breaches in 2019 were suffered by financial services firms, according to Bitglass. However, these breaches compromised significantly more records than those that occurred in other...

Most security pros admit to accidental internal breaches at their organization
2019-12-16 06:00

44% percent of executives believe employees have erroneously exposed personally identifiable information (PII) or business-sensitive information using their company email account. Accidental...

63% of organizations face security breaches due to hardware vulnerabilities
2019-12-11 14:00

While hardware-level attacks are high, only 59% of companies have implemented a hardware security strategy, Dell and Forrester found.

2 Phishing-Related Health Data Breaches Grow Even Bigger
2019-12-04 21:18

Victim Tallies Climb as Breach Investigations ContinueInvestigations of two apparently unrelated phishing-related breaches that affected members of Presbyterian Health Plan have revealed the...

Health Data Breaches: 3 Lessons Learned
2019-11-29 07:33

Insights From Major Healthcare Sector Breaches and CyberattacksThe healthcare sector has had plenty of significant data breaches so far this year. What can be learned from organizations'...

ThreatList: Healthcare Breaches Spike in October
2019-11-28 13:00

38 million consumer health records have been exposed so far in 2019.

Sale of 4 Million Stolen Cards Tied to Breaches at 4 Restaurant Chains
2019-11-26 13:32

On Nov. 23, one of the cybercrime underground's largest bazaars for buying and selling stolen payment card data announced the immediate availability of some four million freshly-hacked debit and...

2 Health Data Breaches Affect Total of 220,000
2019-11-22 20:18

Ransomware, Phishing Attacks Expose a Wealth of DataA California-based medical supply firm and a medical center in Missouri have reported health data breaches that each affected more than 100,000...

Inadequate data sanitization puts enterprises at risk of breaches and compliance failures
2019-11-21 05:30

Global enterprises’ overconfidence and inadequate data sanitization are exposing organizations to the risk of data breach, at a time when proper data management should be at the forefront of...

Netwrix Auditor 9.9: Mitigating the risk of data breaches
2019-11-18 02:00

Netwrix, a vendor of information security and governance software, announced the release of Netwrix Auditor 9.9, which enables organizations to strengthen control over access to minimize the risk...