Rapid employee turnover linked with higher likelihood of data breaches
When employees quit their job and move elsewhere, they often take sensitive data with them. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity experts at Unit 42, who claim there’s a “strong correlation” between employee turnover and data breaches. Over the course of the first half of 2021, Unit 42 analyzed data from more than 700,000 endpoints. During that …
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A massive number of businesses suffer email breaches
Email is still one of the most successful attack vectors for criminals looking to breach a company. A new report from email security solutions provider Hornetsecurity Group, based on a poll of 420 firms, says that one in four businesses suffered an email-related security breach in the past year. In 36 percent of cases, these email-related breaches were caused by …
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Fewer businesses reported data breaches to authorities during the pandemic
During the 2020/21 fiscal year, businesses in the UK reported a total of 9,532 data breach incidents, representing a 20 percent drop compared to the same period the year before. This is according to a new report from the Parliament Street think tank, based on data published by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The report states that the Covid-19 pandemic …
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A third of data breaches involve a company insider
Data breaches caused by internal employees have become a common occurrence, a new report from insider risk management firm Code42 suggests. In its latest report, Code42 says that a third (33 percent) of reported data breaches involve an insider. Most of the time, these insiders do not have malicious intent, but expose data accidentally. Sometimes employees send sensitive data to …
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Security staff still underestimate the likelihood of data breaches
Despite most organizations (81 percent) suffering a data breach in the past twelve months, cybersecurity experts still downplay the likelihood of a breach. This is according to a new report from IT giant VMware, based on a poll of more than 3,500 CIOs, CTOs and CISOs, which states that roughly half (56 percent) of respondents fear a material breach will …
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Nearly half of firms aren’t reporting data breaches
New figures from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike suggest many British firms aren’t reporting data breaches in a timely manner, as is required per General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The company recently polled 500 decision-makers from the UK and found that less than half (42 percent) of those that had fallen victim to a data breach reported it to the relevant authority, …
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Businesses suffering repeated breaches due to app security flaws
Sub-par cybersecurity in business apps has led to the average organization being breached twice in the past year, a new report from Barracuda claims. The cloud security firm polled 750 application security decision-makers for its “State of application security in 2021” paper and found that a third (32 percent) suffered two breaches as a result of poor application security. Roughly …
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Corporate data breaches have skyrocketed since the start of the pandemic
Since the majority of the workforce traded the office for a home working environment, the number of data incidents has increased by a fifth. This is according to a new report from digital marketing firm Reboot Online, which says that, in most cases, former executives and employees are behind the breaches. Reboot polled roughly 1,200 business owners and employees across …
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MoD under fire over multiple data breaches
The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) suffered more data breaches in 2020 than in the year prior, seven of which were reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for further investigation. This is according to a new report from the Parliament Street Think Tank, and based on data provided by the MoD itself. Overall, there was an 18 percent increase …
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ICO warns SolarWinds victims they must report any related breaches
The UK data privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), is warning businesses that were potentially breached through a compromised SolarWinds Orion patch that they are obliged to report the incident within three days of its discovery. In a statement published on the ICO website, the regulator stated that all businesses that used the compromised version of the Orion IT …
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