Data Breaches & Incidents News - Page 3

See how one careless click can lead to a breach and why awareness training should reinforce everyday security habits.

PhishingBox shares practical guidance from WKYT coverage of a major healthcare cyberattack, including why breach headlines trigger follow-on phishing and how to verify suspicious messages.

The 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) provides valuable information on the threats facing organizations today. The DBIR is produced by Verizon with a collaboration of many security entities. The following is a summary of finding that relate to the human element of security.

According to the IBM X-Force Report, phishing remains one of the leading causes of data breaches outside of ransomware. K–12 education systems are not immune to this reality since elementary and secondary school networks contended with a record number of cybersecurity incidents during 2020.

n Sunday August 30th, 2020 CenturyLink suffered a major outage which affected numerous internet companies including Amazon, Twitter, Microsoft via Xbox Live, EA, Blizzard, Steam, Discord, Reddit, Hulu, NameCheap, OpenDNS, and many others including PhishingBox.

The 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) provides valuable information on the threats facing organizations today. The DBIR is produced by Verizon with a collaboration of many security entities.

The 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) provides valuable information on the threats facing organizations today. The DBIR is produced by Verizon with a collaboration of many security entities. The following is a summary of finding that relate to the human element of security.

"Presbyterian Healthcare Services became aware of the breach on June 9 and immediately secured the affected accounts. The breach investigation uncovered no evidence to suggest any personal information was accessed or stolen by the attacker and no reports been received to suggest any PHI has been misused

"More than 100 million credit card applicants had their personal information compromised in the Capital One hack announced Monday, illustrating once again just how vulnerable consumer data can be even for the most security-minded organizations.