Research

Well here we are again, and it is time to take the annual journey into our collection of real-world data breaches and information security incidents from the prior year. We have published this report nine times and we truly appreciate you spending your valuable time with us, whether you have been with us since our humble, pie-chart-centric beginnings or if this is your first read. We would be remiss if we did not begin by acknowledging the organ...

Healthcare data breaches are continuing at an alarming pace, with the second half of 2016 shaping up to have more breach incidents per month, so far, than in the first half of the year. According to the Protenus Breach Barometer report, while the first six months of 2016 averaged 25.3 breaches per month, the second half thus far has had an average of 39.3 incidents per month, an over-55 percent increase. “While the number of months in this t...

Raytheon Company commissioned a new global study which reveals that organizations worldwide wait until they fall victim to a damaging cyber attack – before engaging a provider of managed security services (MSS). Two-thirds of survey respondents indicated that not until there is a significant data loss from an IT security breach are their organizations motivated to engage a vendor. Don’t Wait: The Evolution of Proactive Threat Hunting, a su...

If a week is a long time in politics, as former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson observed, a year in cybersecurity can seem like an eternity. But despite the rapid changes, many things remain constant. Check Point’s top three predicted security threats for 2015 were the rapid growth in unknown malware, in mobile threats, and in critical vulnerabilities in commonly used platforms (Android, iOS and others). These were fully realised, and are ...

The Clearswift Insider Threat Index is an invaluable asset for anyone who has responsibility or is concerned with keeping their critical information secure....

Conpot is a low interactive server side Industrial Control Systems honeypot designed to be easy to deploy, modify and extend. By providing a range of common industrial control protocols we created the basics to build your own system, capable to emulate complex infrastructures to convince an adversary that he just found a huge industrial complex. To improve the deceptive capabilities, we also provided the possibility to server a custom human machi...

IQPC Exchanges surveyed 54 top executives of F1000 companies to determine the top investment trends for cyber security in 2015. The titles of the respondents include: CSO, CIO, CISO, CSIRO, VP of IT Risk Management. Global Head of Strategy, and Director of Information Security....

Today, global security firm, G DATA, is releasing their H1 2015 Malware Report, which looks at malware over the first half of 2015. Among the findings, researchers discovered a 64.8 percent spike of new malware strains as compared to the first half of 2014. This averages out to 12 new strains per minute. In all, the total number of malware strains this year is expected to be well above the level of 2014, with the U.S., China and France hosting th...

Cyber Crime Costs Jump by 19% It's no surprise—the cost to businesses of cyber crime continues to climb. This new study by the Ponemon Institute shows average annual losses to companies worldwide now exceed $7.7 million, with studied companies losing up to $65 million. But companies are fighting back and using technology and best practices to reduce cyber crime losses. Dig into the reports to learn which defenses are most widely deployed...

Ponemon Institute study details annual costs incurred by organizations with over 1,000 employees. The cost of cyberattacks continues to ratchet up in the U.S., with a ski slope of increases of about 20 percent year-over-year for the last six years, according to a new study out by Ponemon Institute. Sponsored by HP Enterprise Security, the 2015 Cost of Cyber Crime Study found that a benchmark sample of U.S. organizations experienced an average co...

Around 142 million legitimate websites could be serving up ransomware to their unwitting users due to out-of-date software, according to a new study....

A number of top-level domains are used almost entirely to support botnets, spam campaigns and phishing, researchers have revealed....

Intel Security has released a five-year retrospective report on industry threats, ...

2014 will long be remembered for a series of mega security breaches and attacks starting with the Target breach in late 2013 and ending with Sony Pictures Entertainment. ...

The federal government says health care facilities should stop using Hospira's Symbiq medication infusion pump because of its vulnerability to hacking. ...

The federal government says health care facilities should stop using Hospira's Symbiq medication infusion pump because of its vulnerability to hacking. ...

The first U.S. Census was carried out in 1790 to count the population in each state and assign seats in Congress accordingly. ...

Almost 70% of businesses experienced at least one hacking incident in the last year, according to a study of business risk managers released on Wednesday by The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB), part of Munich Re. ...

Data breaches have become more common and more devastating, and the average incident now costs a company nearly $3.8 million, according to a new study. ...

Although cyberattacks are becoming more complex, according to Verizon’s recently released 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report, hackers are continuing to use “decades-old techniques such as phishing and hacking” in order to access information....

New research from leading market analysts, Juniper Research, suggests that the rapid digitisation of consumers’ lives and enterprise records will increase the cost of data breaches to $2.1 trillion globally by 2019, increasing to almost four times the estimated cost of breaches in 2015.lit....

The 2015 Identity Fraud Study, released today by Javelin Strategy & Research (@JavelinStrategy), revealed that 2014 was a mixed year in the fight against identity fraud, with some advances and some setbacks. ...

It may be over a year since the infamous Target data breach, but the consumer fear sparked by this incident—and those that followed—still resonates with many buyers to this day....

Today, most organisations realise that cybersecurity has become a persistent, all-encompassing business risk....

The end of a year brings reflection as well as a chance to pause and look to the future. ...

At least 60% of brands will discover a breach of sensitive data in 2015, with the actual number of breached entities being as high as 80% or more, according to Forrester's annual predictions research. ...

http://www.ponemon.org/blog/fourth-annual-benchmark-study-on-patient-privacy-and-data-security....

Throughout the world, companies are finding that data breaches have become as common as a cold but far more expensive to treat. With the exception of Germany, companies had to spend more on their investigations, notification and response when their sensitive and confidential information was lost or stolen. ...

The Internet of Things (IoT), which excludes PCs, tablets and smartphones, will grow to 26 billion units installed in 2020 representing an almost 30-fold increase from 0.9 billion in 2009....

Currently there is a multitude of information available on malware analysis. Much of it describes the tools and techniques used in the analysis but not in the reporting of the results....