Data breach stories - Page 20

What is‘ethical hacking’ in an organisation and are there any grey areas in the law? We sat down with RHTLaw Taylor Wessing’s Jack Ow to find out.

RSA extends its governance, risk and compliance solution to help businesses comply with security legislation such as GDPR.

Australia’s breach disclosure policy doesn’t go nearly far enough in protecting consumers and pales in comparison to the European Union’s GDPR.

A recent worrying survey found that only 3 in every 10 UK businesses have started preparing for the GDPR - seven experts have provided their insights.

It was only weeks ago that one of the single largest data breaches in history was announced - now Equifax may have been hacked again.

1,901,866,611 data records from 918 breach incidents were compromised globally with only 4.6% of breaches rendered useless due to encryption.

The recent release of the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) 2017 report revealed a small breach – with massive implications.

Publicly downloadable information included credentials, platform configurations, certificates, decryption keys and API data.

Asia Pacific’s SMEs also worry about the cost of implementing cybersecurity technologies, believing that other business areas need funding more.

Piers Wilson says that in some ways, it is genuinely shocking that the NSA has allowed a contractor to expose vital US cyber-defence data like this.

SonicWall reports a 524% increase in unique malware variants in the last 6 months, equating to around 1000 new variants daily.

Yahoo's latest news of a breach of 3m accounts is certainly nothing to cheer about, but experts from the industry give their insights on the matter.

Yahoo’s entire user base of more than three billion people were affected by Yahoo’s colossal data hack in 2013, despite initial reports.

Cybersecurity is being undermined by the ongoing skills shortage and Australia will need at least 11,000 new security employees to keep up.

More effective privileged account management can also greatly mitigate risk and reduce the exposure surface for businesses.

Palo Alto's new service is for machine learning & advanced analytics in order to correlate potential threats & prevent successful cyber breaches.

Of 3035 customers worldwide, 43% said they would never return to a company following a data breach and poor rectification methods.

The CISO's role is crucial to the rollout of organisation-wide IT security strategies, but they still have an uphill battle to fight.

The Digital Shadows CEO delves into one of the main tactics behind extortion - ransomware - and how businesses can defend themselves.

There were 918 data breaches that led to a staggering 1.9 billion records being compromised around the world in the first half of 2017 alone.