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Public Wi-Fi and lack of passwords lead consumer risks

93 percent of respondents believe that identity theft is a growing problem yet are not doing enough to address the issue, according to a survey conducted by Edelman Berland. …

Global DDoS attack numbers decline, attacks from China rise

In the second quarter of 2014, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 161 unique countries/regions, which was 33 fewer than the first quarter of the year. The highest …

Insider incidents and high-profile crimes increasing

The number of reported security incidents rose 48 percent this year to 42.8 million – which is the equivalent of 117,339 attacks per day. A report from PwC US, CIO and …

Low confidence in breach prevention

Despite increasing numbers of data breaches and the theft and loss of more than 2 billion data records worldwide since 2013, organizations continue to believe perimeter …

Consumers feel insecure using debit or credit cards

As data breaches at major retailers have compromised the personal information of millions of customers over the past few years, a new consumer trust survey from Honeywell …

People will do anything for free Wi-Fi

A new Wi-Fi investigation conducted on the streets of London shows that consumers carelessly use public Wi-Fi without regard for their personal privacy. In the experiment, …

Exploring today’s top security concerns

Security related topics are often front and center in the 24-hour news cycle, but what concerns Americans the most? According to a new national survey from University of …

Security policy management in hybrid cloud environments

A new survey by AlgoSec found that 79 percent of organizations need better visibility in order to unify security policy management across their on-premise and public cloud …

Trust in the cloud is at an all-time low

Data security and trust in cloud-based services are a rapidly growing concern for IT decision makers within large organizations, according to a new global study from BT. While …

Consumers increasingly blame companies for data breaches

Moving forward, every company involved in a major data breach—those actually attacked, such as retailers Home Depot, Target, Goodwill and Neiman Marcus, as well as banks, …

Energy IT pros show surprising optimism

Tripwire announced the results of a survey of 104 attendees at the EnergySec Security Summit in Texas. Industry research shows most breaches go undiscovered for weeks, months …

Emerging international data privacy challenges

According to a new survey from the Cloud Security Alliance there is a growing and strong interest in harmonizing privacy laws towards a universal set of principles. …

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