data breach
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 …
60+ million Dropbox login credentials have been stolen
A breach disclosed by Dropbox in 2012 has resulted in the theft of usernames and hashed and salted passwords of over 60 million users. At the time, the company did not give …