Data breach Stories - Page 49

Asian Stories

Data breach stories

Southeast Asia firms rank data protection as top security concern

Major data breaches push Southeast Asia firms to prioritise data protection, reveals Kaspersky survey. Companies to bolster cybersecurity budgets.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Thu, 16th Apr 2020

Global Stories

Data breach stories

Breach Prevention

New data reveals correlation between cyber attacks and work from home initiatives

20% of organisations have experienced a cybersecurity breach as a result of remote work, according to a report by Malwarebytes.

By Catherine Knowles • 4 min read • Tue, 25th Aug 2020

Breach Prevention

ComCom takes responsibility for external provider breach

Commerce Commission admits security flaws and pledges to implement stronger systems following burglary incident.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Thu, 6th Aug 2020

Breach Prevention

Data breaches costing companies millions - could incident response help?

On average, data breaches cost companies $3.86 million per breach, with compromised employee accounts the most expensive root cause.

By Catherine Knowles • 6 min read • Wed, 5th Aug 2020

IT Automation

80% of security breaches involve exposure of customer data - IBM

IBM reveals 80% of data breaches expose customer info, with average costs at USD $3.86 million. Security automation cuts expenses significantly.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Fri, 31st Jul 2020

Hyperscale

LPM Property Management leaves Amazon S3 buckets unsecured

New Zealand property management firm LPM Property Management left over 31,000 images of personal information exposed on an unsecured Amazon database.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Thu, 16th Jul 2020

Customer Relationship Management

NZ Police & research firm caught up in data breach

The firm believes that the breach could have compromised contact details of a number of people who have had contact with the police.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Thu, 16th Jul 2020

Email Security

SafeSend available to VIPRE partners

VIPRE's reseller partners can now offer SafeSend to their customers to help prevent data breaches caused by employee-error.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Mon, 8th Jun 2020

Firewalls

Cyber alert: tackling the unseen risk that could sink your business in 2020

A successful cyber attack can have many implications for your business, including a price tag you may be unwilling or unable to pay.

By Mark Sinclair • 4 min read • Wed, 27th May 2020

Cloud Access Security Broker

76% of execs losing sleep over being the next high-profile breach

Headline-grabbing security breaches of high-profile enterprises are becoming more common, fuelling the anxieties of business leaders who hope they're not next.

By Nick Forrester • 3 min read • Wed, 20th May 2020

Virtual Private Networks

Q1 2020 sees more data breaches than ever before

8.4 billion documents were leaked in the first three months of 2020, smashing records and setting a sombre tone for the year.

By Nick Forrester • 3 min read • Tue, 19th May 2020

Breach Prevention

GoDaddy reveals widespread data breach

GoDaddy, the largest domain registrar with 77 million domains, discloses a data breach affecting users' SSH accounts, impacting 19 million customers worldwide.

By Nick Forrester • 3 min read • Wed, 6th May 2020

Phishing

WHO urges caution after emails, passwords stolen

Approximately 450 active WHO email addresses and passwords, and emails belonging to others working on fighting COVID-19, were leaked on the internet.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Wed, 29th Apr 2020

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

The top four cloud IT security misconfigurations and how to fix them

Thankfully, there are some effective steps that can be taken to overcome four of the most common security issues, thereby reducing the attack surface.

By ExtraHop • 4 min read • Fri, 27th Mar 2020