Security News

Business travelers, beware: Hackers looking over your shoulder can cause data breaches
2019-06-17 14:59

Some 80% of business travelers say visual hacking is a threat, according to a 3M report.

Human error still the cause of many data breaches
2019-06-17 04:45

With the incidence of reported data breaches on the rise, more than half of all C-suite executives (C-Suites) (53%) and nearly three in 10 Small Business Owners (SBOs) (28%) who suffered a breach...

Empower Employees While Preventing Insider Data Breaches
2019-06-13 09:18

Make Technology Your Last Line of Defense, Says Tony Pepper of EgressCarelessness, a lack of security awareness, unclear data ownership and poor toolsets are root causes of insider breaches, says...

2018 in numbers: Data breaches cost $654 billion, expose 2.8 billion data records in the U.S.
2019-06-05 05:00

Cybercriminals exposed 2.8 billion consumer data records in 2018, costing over $654 billion to U.S. organizations, according to ForgeRock. Cyberattacks to U.S. financial services organizations...

Most businesses 'overconfident' in their ability to stop cybersecurity breaches
2019-05-30 12:41

Some 93% of organizations said they feel prepared against cyberthreats, though they lack common cyber best practices, according to a Centrify report.

The largest cybersecurity breaches of the past three years, and their effects on companies
2019-05-17 14:27

There have been some major security breaches in recent years, according to a recent Bitglass report, and those breaches have cost companies billions of dollars along the way.

The largest breaches over the past three years have caused massive and irreparable damage
2019-05-17 05:00

Publicly traded companies suffering the worst data breaches averaged a 7.5 percent decrease in stock price, a Bitglass report reveals. Bitglass researched the three largest data breaches of...

A deeper look: How the 281 data breaches in Q1 2019 will impact companies
2019-05-10 06:00

High-profile data breaches show no sign of slowing down. In the first quarter of 2019, there were 281 reported data breaches, exposing more than 4.53 billion records. Companies have overlooked the...

C-level executives increasingly and proactively targeted by social breaches
2019-05-09 05:30

C-level executives – who have access to a company’s most sensitive information, are now the major focus for social engineering attacks, alerts the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report....

3 months, 1900 reported breaches, 1.9 billion records exposed
2019-05-09 05:15

There were 1,903 publicly disclosed data compromise events in the first three months of the year, exposing over 1.9 billion records, according to Risk Based Security. No other first quarter has...