A new 4IQ report found that 12,449 data breaches occurred in 2018, which is a staggering increase of 424% compared to the year before. However, the number of records exposed per breach was 4.7 times …
Organizations still ignoring a large piece of their cybersecurity defense
A new survey by BAE Systems sheds light on the incident response capabilities and readiness of small and large organizations. The research found that 71% of cybersecurity breaches involve phishing, …
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Huawei Opens Brussels Security Lab in Bid to Reassure EU
Huawei has inaugurated its Cyber Security Transparency Centre in Brussels, the political capital of the European Union. The move is seen as an attempt by the Chinese tech firm to convince European …
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Survey: Cybersecurity Threats from Careless Insiders and Foreign Governments Reach All-Time Highs
The fifth annual Federal Cybersecurity Survey by SolarWinds identifies careless/untrained insiders and foreign governments as the top cybersecurity threats to US federal agencies. The two threat …
The public sector is a cyberattack magnet, manual processes are to blame
New research[PDF] by Tenable and Ponemon shows that a whopping 88% of organizations in the public sector experienced at least one damaging cyberattack over the past two years, while 62% of …
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NSA releases cybersecurity tool to the public
The National Security Agency has made its custom reverse-engineering tool known as Ghidra available for download to anyone with an Internet connection. The move is intended to make it easier for …
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Attack traffic increased by 32 percent in 2018
F-Secure observed a 32% increase in attack traffic last year compared to 2017, and the second half of 2018 saw four times more attack traffic than the first half. Moreover, the security company found …
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Microsoft Sees 250% Phishing Increase, Malware Decline by 34%
The 24th volume of Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report shows that phishing surged in 2018. The detected 250% increase in phishing attacks last year confirms similar findings of other recent …
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Employees are the biggest risk to enterprise mobile device security, report says
According to Verizon's new Mobile Security report, 83% of organizations believe mobile threats puts them at risk in 2018, with 81% saying that their employees where their biggest risk factor in the …
Experian: More Than a Third of Companies are Unprepared to Respond to a Data Breach
New research by Experian shows that companies are still falling short when it comes to cyber security disaster preparedness. The study found that just over one-third of business executives (36%) …