Tag: Data Breach

April 3, 2024

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a critical assessment of Microsoft’s security protocols in the wake of the summer 2023 Exchange Online breach, concluding that security failures within Microsoft created the conditions that allowed Chinese state-backed hacking […]

December 28, 2023

LoanCare suffered a data breach last month, which resulted in the theft of sensitive customer data, the insurance service company has confirmed. Roughly 1.3 million people were affected by the breach, the company further explained, as hackers stole people’s full […]

October 18, 2023

With cyberattacks continually rising, cyber criminals will take advantage of current events or previous breaches and claim they have infiltrated a business when they have not. Organizations should plan for false breach claims and must be ready to follow the […]

September 8, 2023

Online gaming marketplace Traderie has suffered a data breach that reportedly saw user data stored on its servers. A TechCrunch article reports on a notification email sent to affected users, as well as the advertisement for the database posted on […]

July 24, 2023

The cost of a data breach keeps increasing year after year, and has now hit an all-time high, a new report by IBM has claimed. After surveying more than 500 organizations across the world, IBM found that the global average […]

June 27, 2023

The studies are coming fast these days. Thales Global Cloud Security Study for 2022 found that during the past 12 months, 45% of businesses have experienced a cloud data breach or failed to perform audits. (It would have been nice […]

December 20, 2022

One of the biggest cloud security threats your company faces isn’t malicious. In fact, it originates from inside your IT organization. Accidental misconfigurations pose one of the leading security vulnerabilities IT organizations contend with in the cloud. According to a […]

July 19, 2022

The last decade has seen its fair share of watershed moments that have had major implications on the cybersecurity landscape. Severe vulnerabilities, mass exploitations, and widespread cyberattacks have reshaped many aspects of modern security. To take stock of the past […]

October 1, 2021

It can be hard to navigate which solutions really protect you from the effects of a data breach. Take a look at defending against data breaches by the numbers. That way, you can focus on the modern data security approaches […]

September 3, 2021

In doing postmortems on breaches of applications and data sets in the cloud, problems are often traced back to communication. Frequently, it’s not issues with computer-to-computer communication, but communications with the humans designing the cloud-based systems and those who are […]

January 16, 2020

Cybersecurity is an important aspect and it becomes more precarious when organisations are flocking to the cloud to deploy mission-critical apps. Data is the new oil of the 21st century. The opportunity that the cloud presents also brings in challenges […]

July 31, 2019

The recent CapitalOne breach has certainly made lots of headlines in less than a day since the story broke out. And sadly, it has already thrust the $700M settlement that was reached from the largest ever data breach – the […]

October 22, 2018

This year, IDC recognized IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) as a leader in its “IDC MarketScape: U.S. Incident Readiness, Response, and Resiliency Services 2018 Vendor Assessment.” The IDC report cited how X-Force IRIS effectively streamlines incident response […]