Data Breaches Archive
New cybersecurity surveys continue to point at the two main challenges faced by most smaller businesses in terms of defending against cyber attack: They don’t know where they are vulnerable; and They don’t have the skills to close down the …
According to the recent ISBS 2013 Survey, 78% of large organisations were attacked by an unauthorised outsider last year (an increase from 73% the previous year), while 63% of small organisations were similarly attacked from outside – a big increase …
Cyber security costs money – but then, so does cyber insecurity – and the problem with data breach costs is that they are usually accompanied by even more expensive business disruption and reputation damage – often when you need it …
SANS has, for years, published and maintained the Top 20 Critical Security Controls (now in version 4.1). These 20 Critical Security Controls, whose origins go back beyond 2008, were implemented by the US State Department in 2009, leading apparently to …
In a long and interesting Wired post (Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore) at the backend of last year, Matt Honan wrote about how easy it is for a hacker to crack pretty well …
Half of all firms which allow staff to bring their own device, but don’t have any firm information security policies or practices around BYOD, have suffered a security breach – according to Dell, and as reported by Out-law.com. A Dell …
Yesterday’s New York Times – and today’s Economist Online – carry extensive coverage of the recently released Mandiant Intelligence Centre Report. This report details the activities, players and modus operandus of what it claims is one of the Chinese PLA’s most prolific and effective …
I’ve argued, for some time, that laptop and mobile device encryption should be an absolutely standard security measure – mobile devices will get lost or stolen, and boot disk encryption is the only realistic way of protecting against the risk …
According to the Australian CERT (set out in the 2012 Cyber Crime and Security Survey Report and reported online), more than a fifth of major companies reported being hit last year, 20% of them experiencing more that 10 security incidents. One …
Fortune, in its Europe edition, dated 11 March 2013, identifies six different hacker types, and offers a summary of their differing motives, objectives and signature attacks. The six types that it lists are: State sponsored hackers – from China, Russia, …
