Gemalto has released the findings of the 2016 Breach Level Index (BLI), revealing that Middle East data breaches are up 16.67 percent compared to 2015.
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EMEA firms take almost six months to detect a cyber-attack: report
FireEye has announced the release of its annual M-Trends report, which found that attackers were present in EMEA organisations’ networks a median of 175 days before being detected in 2017. 0 1972
Russian government agents charged for Yahoo hack
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has charged four people, including two Russian state intelligence agents, for their involvement in a massive hack of Yahoo that affected half a billion accounts.
Firms take 10 hours to spot data breaches, McAfee finds
The average organisation believes it would spot a data breach in 10 hours, a McAfee global survey of IT professionals has found. But is that result good, indifferent or an indication of the downright complacent?
Companies unprepared for data breaches, says security survey
According to Protiviti’s 2013 Security and Privacy Survey, a large number of companies are not adequately prepared to respond to …
Evernote urges users to change passwords after attack
Evernote, developer of business and consumer productivity software for note taking and doing research, is forcing all of its 50 …
Verizon warns of continued cyber attacks
According to a new data breach report from Verizon, authentication attacks and “hacktivism” will continue to pose a threat to …
‘Hacktivists’ pose biggest data breach threat: study
A tiny but motivated band of ‘hacktivists’ are supplanting professional criminals as the biggest single data breach threat to large …
Data breach harm assessment is more valuable than victim notification: study
IT professionals believe that assessing the potential harm caused by data breaches is more useful to mitigating the effects of …
Employees pose significant threat to corporate data: Harris Interactive
A survey of more than 3,400 employees in the US, UK and Australia finds corporate data may be on its …
Sony Grappling with 55 U.S. Lawsuits After PSN Hack
It looks like Sony may be going to court, and we’re not talking once, or thrice, but 55 times over. …