Tagged: data breaches

December 10, 2024 @ 10:19 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Hackers targeting hackers, vulnerable data centers, and AI-supported employee theft are among Experian’s predictions for the trends that will shape 2025. They are included in Experian’s twelfth annual Data Breach Industry Forecast. Today, cyber hacking and its results are not confined to grown-ups. According to the… Read More

August 1, 2024 @ 8:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and SandboxAQ are expanding their partnership to address the critical need for enterprise data encryption that can defend against current data breaches, as well as future AI and quantum threats. Together, Accenture and SandboxAQ are “helping organizations secure sensitive data and strengthen… Read More

February 5, 2024 @ 6:11 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The latest data breach yearly recap by Surfshark shows that 300 million accounts were breached in 2023, with the United States ranking first with 97 million breaches. Russia takes second place with 79 million. France (10M), Spain (8M) and India (5M) are far behind in… Read More

August 6, 2023 @ 10:40 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Public trust in the data security methods deployed by financial institutions is high, IT security solutions provider Utimaco said in new research. Overall, 64% of people trust their financial institution’s methods. Circles of Trust 2023: Exploring Consumer Trust in the Digital Society surveyed thousands of… Read More

August 6, 2023 @ 10:39 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The United States maintained its dubious top spot in data breaches as cybersecurity company Surfshark released its Q2 statistics last week. According to Surfshark, 110.8 million accounts were breached in the quarter. The USA (49.8M) accounts for nearly half of those breaches, with Russia (15.3M),… Read More

March 1, 2022 @ 8:39 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Hyperproof, a compliance operations platform company, has released its 2022 IT Compliance Benchmark Report, a survey containing comprehensive benchmarks on how companies manage IT risks and compliance efforts in a time when requirements are increasing in complexity. The responses, collected in December of 2021, come from 1,014… Read More

June 8, 2021 @ 8:25 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week did not get off to a good start for those tasked with corporate cybersecurity as one single breach saw more than half of the number of passwords stolen. In all of 2020 swiped in one swoop. On June 7, what many believe to… Read More

December 22, 2020 @ 9:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ron Stoner, a crypto-security expert and newly appointed Head of Security at Casa, a company focused on developing security and custody solutions for Bitcoin (BTC), notes that we’re living in a world that heavily depends on “the connectivity between our physical and digital identities.” Stoner,… Read More