Healthcare: Are you prepared to trade privacy for treatment?
What does the U.S. and the U.K. have in common when it comes to healthcare? Their healthcare sector continues to be under siege, and renewed efforts need to be made to lift the level of focus on protecting patient information. It is as if a Sword of Damocles hangs over this sector. As asinine as…
3 in 5 companies expect to be breached in 2017
New research found that of the 50 percent who reported being breached in 2016, the average material impact to the business was $4 million. Vanson Bourne interviewed 600 senior IT decision-makers at organisations with at least 1,000 employees across Australia, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States.
200 million financial services records breached in 2016, 900% increase from 2015
The financial services industry was attacked more than any other industry in 2016 – 65 percent more than the average organization across all industries, according to the IBM X-Force Research team. As a result, the number of financial services records breached skyrocketed 937 percent in 2016 to more than 200 million. While the financial services…
Cybercrime can come in any shape or size, and not always the form you’d expect
Cyberespionage is now the most common type of attack seen in manufacturing, the public sector and now education, warns the Verizon 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report. Much of this is due to the high proliferation of propriety research, prototypes and confidential personal data, which are hot-ticket items for cybercriminals. Nearly 2,000 breaches were analyzed in…
Life’s a Breach: Dissecting a Year of Devastating Data Breaches
Several major data breaches thrust cybersecurity into the global spotlight in 2016. In the Asia-Pacific region, for example, cybercriminals stole 100 GB of government data from the Indian state of Kerala and made off with 300 GB of voter data in the Philippines. These are just two examples of high-profile data breaches that hit in…
Why do I care about someone else’s data breach?
Because as the size of your organization increases, the probability that an individual employee’s company email is in that breach rises to 1. That lone employee is going to be suffering some unfortunate impacts, from identity theft, financial scams, blackmail, and even death threats (as seen in the Ashley Madison breach). There’s an organizational impact…
InterContinental Hotels Investigating Possible Card Breach
British multinational hotel company InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has launched an investigation after being informed of a possible payment card breach at some of its properties in the United States. Investigative journalist Brian Krebs learned from his sources in the financial industry that a pattern of fraud had been observed on credit and debit cards…
Health Care Security in 2016: End-of-Year Checkup on Security Trends
As IBM X-Force Security Research predicted six months ago, a shift in cybercriminals’ focus from the retail industry led to increased risk in the health care sector in the second half of 2016. Unfortunately, empirical data confirmed just how dramatic these trends have been on a year-over-year basis. Let’s review the state of health care…
LinkedIn skill learning unit Lynda.com hit by database breach
Lynda.com, the online learning unit of LinkedIn, has reset passwords for some of its users after it discovered recently that an unauthorized external party had accessed a database containing user data. The passwords of close to 55,000 affected users were reset as a precautionary measure and they have been notified of the issue, LinkedIn said…
Millions of User Accounts Allegedly Stolen From Dailymotion
Data breach notification service LeakedSource has obtained a database containing the details of roughly 85 million Dailymotion users, including usernames, email addresses and, in many cases, passwords. According to LeakedSource, the database stores 87 million records with 85 million unique email addresses. More than 18 million of the entries also include password hashes. LeakedSource said…