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Cover Your App: Five Lessons from Recent Data BreachesVernickScott L
Alright and we’re back! According to Lastpass, on June 15th, they publicly announced that they noticed suspicious traffic on the network and stopped it immediately. They assured users that their encrypted data was not taken, and that the only user emails, hashed master passwords, and secret ...
The SEC is investigating whether two massive data breaches at Yahoo should have been reported sooner to investors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. An SEC spokesman declined to comment. A Yahoo spokesman directed Reuters to the company’s November...
upgrade iterations, accelerating the technical means of data protection. Cyber-attacks have become more common in recent years. According to the SonicWALL2022 Cyber Threat Report, ransomware attacks have surged by 232% since 2019. Here are a few examples of severe data breaches caused by ransomware...
What is Data Breach & Types In general, there are three types of data breaches. They are: Physical– It can also be referred to as ‘Corporate Espionage’ or efforts to obtain trade secrets by dishonest means, such as computer tapping. ...
Biggest Data Breaches Cyber-attacks pose a significant threat to businesses of all sizes, government agencies, and individual internet users.Recent cyber-attackshave come from hacktivist groups, lone wolf hackers, and nation-states. The first cyber-attack on record was The Morris Worm in 1988. Rob...
But first, here's one important bit of info that might be of interest to note: A2020 study by Comparitechshows that since 2005, more than 1,300 data breaches (involving 24.5 million records) have been reported at colleges, universities and K-12 school districts in the U.S. Now,...
Share Recent state privacy laws offer hope for improving the data breach landscape in the face of private sector failures to implement cybersecurity best practices, according to a report from the Identity Theft Resource Center. “Despite the disconcerting overall trend lines, there...
In 2020, Verizon uncovered 29,207 security incidents, while 5,200 of these cases were confirmed breaches. The telecom giant fell prey to DDoS attacks; social engineering and client-side web app infections fueled each attack, leading to server-side system breaches. The telecom agency attributes th...