Security News

Eight reasons more CEOs will be fired over cybersecurity breaches
2018-11-12 07:26

Security is everyone's problem, but CEOs should make sure their organisation doesn't block its success. Gartner offers eight situations for CEOs to avoid if a breach occurs within their organisation.

Reported breaches in the first 9 months of 2018 exposed 3.6 billion records
2018-11-12 06:30

There have been 3,676 publicly disclosed data compromise events through September 30. Breach activity continues at a consistent pace for 2018, which although significant in level, will likely not...

Fugue Compliance Suite helps enterprises enforce cloud security and policy to prevent breaches
2018-10-22 16:26

Fugue launched the Fugue Compliance Suite to make it easier for enterprises to validate cloud infrastructure against security and compliance policy to prevent data breaches. Included in the Fugue...

Aetna Hit With More Penalties for Two Breaches
2018-10-15 18:48

Cases Involved Mailings That Potentially Exposed Sensitive Health InformationHealth insurer Aetna is still paying the price for two 2017 privacy breaches involving mailings that potentially...

Stringent password rules lower risk of personal data breaches
2018-10-15 05:15

The all-too-common practice of using the same email address/password combination to log into multiple websites can be damaging, especially for employers with many users and valuable assets...

945 data breaches led to compromise of 4.5 billion data records in first half of 2018
2018-10-09 05:00

Gemalto released the latest findings of the Breach Level Index, a global database of public data breaches, revealing 945 data breaches led to 4.5 billion data records being compromised worldwide...

Preventing Business Associate Health Data Breaches
2018-09-28 19:33

Because business associates have been culprits in heath data breaches impacting millions of individuals, healthcare entities need to be diligent in taking steps to reduce the persistent risks...

Yahoo's Mega-Breaches: Altaba Moves to Settle Lawsuits
2018-09-18 12:18

$47 Million Settlement Agreement to be Submitted to Court in Next 45 DaysLawsuits sparked by massive data breaches at Yahoo - and the company's failure to report those breaches to investors in a...

Data breaches make companies underperform the market in the long run
2018-09-17 09:59

While the share prices of companies that experienced a sizeable/huge data breach suffer just a temporary hit, in the long term breached companies underperformed the market, an analysis by consumer...