Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023: Insights, Mitigators and Best Practices

John Hanley of IBM Security shares 4 key findings from the highly acclaimed annual Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 What is the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report? The IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report is an annual report that provides organizations with quantifiable information about the financial...

Key Cybersecurity Tools That Can Mitigate the Cost of a Breach

IBM's 2023 installment of their annual "Cost of a Breach" report has thrown up some interesting trends. Of course, breaches being costly is no longer news at this stage! What's interesting is the difference in how organizations respond to threats and which technologies are helping reduce the cost...

AT&T Phone-Unlocking Malware Ring Costs Carrier $200M

The ringleader of a seven-year phone-unlocking and malware scheme will head to the clink for 12 years, according to the Department of Justice, after effectively compromising AT&T’s internal networks to install credential-thieving malware. The perp, one Muhammad Fahd of Pakistan and Grenada, was...

Report: Nearly Half of Security Professionals Think They Could Execute a Successful Insider Attack on Their Organization

As potential threats and entry points into organizations’ databases keep growing, so does the amount of money folks are throwing at detecting and actioning insider threats. In fact, the ballooning amount of money being spent on cybersecurity overall clearly highlights the seriousness with which...

EU Struggles to Determine Growing Cost of Cyberattacks

After painstakingly calculating the true cost of cybercrime in the European Union researchers conclude it’s nearly impossible to come up with hard numbers. In a study released this week by the European Union Agency For Network And Information Security ENISA researchers assert that it’s vitally...

As Uncle Sam Cracks Down on Leaks, A Look At Ten Infamous Insiders

In the wake of Cablegate, the release of hundreds of thousands of pages of confidential diplomatic cables by the whistle blower site Wikileaks, the Obama Administration is cracking down on loose data management practices of the type that made Cablegate possible. But could you spot a malicious...

DARPA Project CINDER Targets Insider Threats

The U.S. military is looking for new ways to identify malicious insiders and stop them from operating from within government and military networks, which it assumes have already been compromised. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPAhttp://www.darpa.mil/ this week issued a call for...