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A closer look at data breach preparedness
While most organizations have a data breach preparedness plan in place, executives are not updating or practicing the plan regularly and lack confidence in its effectiveness, …
Yahoo security breach highlights the importance of personal protection
The recent breach at Yahoo has proved once again that, regardless of a company’s size and expertise, security is always an issue. In the wake of the incident which left …
Yahoo breach was not state-sponsored, researchers claim
The massive 2014 Yahoo breach isn’t the work of state-sponsored hackers as the company has claimed to believe, say researchers from identity protection and threat …
Repercussions of the massive Yahoo breach
Yahoo has announced on Thursday that they have suffered a breach and that account information of at least half a billion users has been exfiltrated from the company’s …
880,000 users exposed in MoDaCo data breach
Subscribers of UK-based MoDaCo, a forum specialising in smartphone news and reviews, have been unpleasantly surprised by notifications that the site and their account have …
Identity and personal data theft account for 64% of all data breaches
Data breaches increased 15% in the first six months of 2016 compared to the last six months of 2015, according to Gemalto. Worldwide, there were 974 reported data breaches and …
Cyberattacks cost SMBs an average of $86,500
On average, a single cybersecurity incident now costs large businesses a total of $861,000. Meanwhile, SMBs pay an average of $86,500. To assess the state of the security …
6.6 million ClixSense users exposed in wake of site, company hack
If you’ve ever registered with ClixSense – and millions have – you can consider all your personal information shared with the service compromised. The …
The evolution of data breach prevention practices
Despite the potential costs, legal consequences and other negative outcomes of data breaches, they continue to happen. A new SANS Institute survey looks at the preventive …
Review: Protecting Patient Information
About the author Paul Cerrato has more than 30 years of experience working in healthcare and has written extensively on patient care, electronic health records, protected …
Rambler.ru hack: Passwords of nearly 100 million users exposed
A new data leak – confirmed to be legitimate by LeakedSource and added to its searchable online database – affects nearly 100 million users of Rambler.ru, one of …
London economy hit hard by security breaches
A new report by the Conservative members on the London Assembly, which help scrutinise the work of the Mayor of London, estimates that in 2015 in London 329,515 organizations …
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