Posted on 03 December 2015 by
As 2015 comes to a close, and IT, security and compliance leaders draw on the developments of the past year to plan for a more digitally secure 2016, here are some takeaways to keep top of mind when sketching plans on the whiteboard or reviewing financial statements. The Cost of a Data Breach The IBM […]
Posted on 11 November 2015 by
After a list of Comcast email accounts were offered for sale in an underground store, consisting of customers’ Comcast email addresses and associated passwords, Comcast—one of the largest providers of cable, internet and phone services in the US—forced a password reset on those accounts. Of the 600,000 accounts offered for sale, 200,000 were found by […]
Posted on 08 October 2015 by
Cyber risk is difficult to define or predict, a challenge exacerbated by general reticence to declare security breaches when they happen, for fear of reputational damage — a factor highlighted by US ratings agency Standard and Poors.
Posted on 24 September 2015 by
t’s been over a year since Heartbleed was uncovered, a vulnerability in OpenSSL which can enable encryption keys, and therefore usernames, passwords and other information, to be revealed. So… what have we learned?
Posted on 10 September 2015 by
The breach of the IRS affected 334,000 taxpayers, whose personal information including Social Security numbers and home addresses, were compromised. Learn the key lessons from this attack.
Posted on 09 September 2015 by
Here’s the good news first: Just released by Gemalto and based on publicly available breach information, the Breach Level Index (BLI) report for H1 2015 shows that the number of data records lost or stolen in the first half of this year – 245.9 million records* total – was down by about 40% compared to […]
