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Verizon released its Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) for 2024, an annual treat that highlights some trends companies should be aware of as they manage their cybersecurity programs and respond to and anticipate new...more
If you have been following Verizon’s annual data breach investigation reports like I have over the years, you get excited when the new one comes out. If you have never read the report, now’s your chance, as the 2021 report...more
In April 2018, Verizon released the 11th edition of its Data Breach Investigations Report. As usual, the Verizon DBIR contained interesting data points culled from more than 53,000 incidents and 2,216 confirmed data breaches....more
On April 24, 2018, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a $35 million fine against the company formerly known as Yahoo! Inc. (now known as Altaba, Inc.) for failing to disclose a massive cyber data breach to its...more
Verizon's Protected Health Information Data Breach Report Concludes that Insiders Are Greatest Threat to Health Care Entities - Verizon recently issued its Protected Health Information Data Breach Report, which is always...more
We follow the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report each year. It just hit the news stand and as always, is full of insights. The report collected data from 65 organizations in 84 countries, including 42,068...more
Yahoo’s troubles for failing to timely disclose security breaches provides rare insight into quantifying the financial and other costs to a company’s shareholders and leadership when a security breach occurs and is...more
On Wednesday, Yahoo! disclosed that more than 1 billion of its users’ personal information was exposed in a newly discovered cyber-attack, making it the largest data breach reported to date. The breach apparently took place...more
Yahoo Inc. announced on December 14th that hackers stole the personal information of more than one billion users, which is in addition to the 500 million accounts compromised that was announced in September....more
On April 26, 2016, Verizon published its ninth annual Data Breach Investigations Report ("DBIR"), which looks at breach trends, common vulnerabilities, and categories of security incidents that affected organizations in 82...more
In the span of two days, mobile device users learned of two data breaches that could compromise their personal data. In one, Experian (a credit reporting agency) reported that it was hacked, potentially putting 15 million...more
In light of numerous recent data breaches, cybersecurity has emerged as an issue impacting organizations ranging from the local hardware store to the largest multi-national firms in the world. In short, no industry is immune...more
With the uptick in high profile security breaches like the Office of Personnel Management, Target, JPMorgan and others, it is easy to become desensitized to the constant risk our cyber lives pose both personally and...more
The 2014 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) was released on April 22, providing the deep empirical analysis of cybersecurity incidents we’ve come to expect from this annual report. The primary messages of this...more
Newspapers around the world recently reported that a sophisticated and well-coordinated cyber-attack resulted in the theft of $45 million from thousands of ATMs worldwide....more