Security News

FTC Closes 70 Percent of Data Breach Investigations, Weighing PCI-DSS Standard (Threatpost)
2016-06-29 21:03

The FTC closes roughly 70 percent of the investigations it opens and is weighing how to better handle PCI-DSS and other standards, an agency official said this week.

The average cost of a data breach is now $4 million (Help Net Security)
2016-06-16 14:30

The average data breach cost has grown to $4 million, representing a 29 percent increase since 2013, according to the Ponemon Institute. Cybersecurity incidents continue to grow in both volume and...

A third of organizations experienced a data breach in the past 12 months (Help Net Security)
2016-06-09 12:45

Despite the increasing number of data breaches and more than 3.9 billion data records worldwide being lost or stolen since 2013, organizations continue to believe perimeter security technologies...

Will the next major data breach start on mobile? (Help Net Security)
2016-06-06 13:00

Over the past few years, we have seen a spike in major data breaches from noteworthy businesses such as Target, Home Depot, and Sony (to just name a few). While data breaches continue to dominate...