Data breaches expose over 40 billion records in 2021
New figures released today from cyber exposure company Tenable show that over 40 billion records were exposed in data breach incidents last year, a whopping 78 percent increase over the previous year.
The company's 2021 Threat Landscape Retrospective report is based on analysis of 1,825 incidents publicly disclosed between November 2020 and October 2021. Since many reports didn't include details of the number of records breached the true figure is likely to be far higher.
Mid-sized businesses are 490 percent more likely to be breached
Mid-sized organizations are as much as 490 percent or more likely to experience a security breach by the end of 2021 as they were in 2019.
A report from security platform Coro shows that mid-size companies are largely unprotected due to the fact that they lack resources, expensive products and expertise needed to protect against increasing attacks.
62 percent of organizations not confident they can prevent data loss
Data exfiltration remains a significant threat and despite large investments in security tools, organizations are not confident they can stop it according to a new report.
The survey of 255 cybersecurity professionals, conducted by Osterman for data privacy and security company BlackFog, finds 62 percent lack confidence in the ability of their security tools to prevent data exfiltration.
3.8 billion combined Clubhouse and Facebook records for sale on the dark web
Data combined from the July 24 Clubhouse breach and Facebook user profiles has been used to compile a database of 3.8 billion entries and it could be yours for $100,000 -- though the seller is willing to split it up if you're strapped for cash.
The CyberNews research team uncovered a hacker forum posting from September 4 offering the data for sale. The poster claims the records include names, phone numbers, Clubhouse ranks, and Facebook profile links.
Education sector sees more security incidents and longer fix times
A new report from NTT Application Security shows that last year the education sector saw 408 publicly-disclosed school incidents, including student and staff data breaches, ransomware and other malware outbreaks, phishing attacks and other social engineering scams, plus a wide variety of other incidents.
This is 18 percent more incidents than were publicly-disclosed during the previous calendar year and equates to more than two incidents a day. The sector also has lower remediation rates and a higher than average time to fix.
Office workers understand cyber risk but still don't change their behavior
Nearly a quarter (24 percent) of office workers have experienced a data breach, yet 12 percent say nothing will make them take cyber security more seriously, and a third won't take extra precautions.
A survey of over 2,000 UK office staff from BlueFort Security finds 34 percent believe cybersecurity awareness is the biggest issue when it comes to hybrid working, and 33 percent cite personal use of company devices as another significant risk.
36 percent of organizations have suffered a serious cloud breach in the last year
A new survey of 300 cloud professionals finds that 36 percent of organizations have suffered a serious cloud security data leak or a breach in the past 12 months.
The study conducted by security and compliance automation firm Fugue and developer tools company Sonatype finds eight out of ten are worried that they're vulnerable to a major data breach related to cloud misconfiguration.
Insider breaches hit 94 percent of organizations
Insider data breaches have been experienced by 94 percent of organizations in the past year, according to a new survey of 500 IT leaders and 3,000 employees in the US and UK, from email security company Egress.
Human error is the top cause of serious incidents, according to 84 percent of IT leaders surveyed. However, respondents are more concerned about malicious insiders, with 28 percent saying that intentionally malicious behavior is their biggest fear.
Insider data breaches can cost companies as much as 20 percent of revenue
Data breaches from insiders can cost as much as 20 percent of annual revenue according to a new study from insider risk management company Code42.
Combine this with a recent Microsoft report showing that 40 percent of people are planning to switch jobs as we emerge from the pandemic, and clearly there's a risk as the very technologies that enable the free flow of data in an organization are also the ones that make it easy for insiders to exfiltrate data.
A series of unfortunate events… Or more? What story the recent cybersecurity attacks could be telling
Recently there has been a dizzying number of major breaches disclosed within just months and sometimes weeks of each other. I’ve been paying close attention and doing a bit of research into the most recent data breaches, especially the more notable ones. The most recent heavily covered incident, the JBS hack, is already having an impact on the food industry.
In the last seven months we have seen the following things happen:
98 percent of companies experience cloud data breaches
In the last 18 months 98 percent of companies in a new survey have experienced at least one cloud data breach -- up from 79 percent last year.
The research, conducted by IDC for cloud infrastructure company Ermetic, reveals that of the 200 CISOs and security decision makers surveyed 67 percent report three or more breaches, and 63 percent say they had sensitive data exposed.
The normalization of data leaks and the privacy paradox [Q&A]
Is society becoming too accepting of data breaches? Do we claim to want more privacy but then continue to treat our own data in a cavalier fashion?
A recently leaked internal memo from Facebook revealed the company's plans to normalize data scraping leaks and change the way the public views these incidents.
Facebook tops the data loss roll of shame
Data breaches have almost become a fact of everyday life, but there are still some that have greater impact than others.
Software company Intact has carried out an analysis of publicly available data to see which companies have suffered the most large-scale data breaches (involving more than 30,000 records or more) over the last 16 years.
New platform helps enterprises prevent breaches on SaaS apps
As more and more data moves outside the network perimeter into SaaS applications, this can become a blind spot for security teams trying to control access.
To address the issue DoControl is launching a fully automated SaaS data access platform, providing data access monitoring, orchestration, and remediation across major SaaS apps, including Google Drive, Box, Microsoft OneDrive, Salesforce, and others.
Third-party attacks make up a quarter of healthcare breaches
New research from Tenable's Security Response Team finds that third-party attacks accounted for over a quarter of breaches disclosed over the past year.
More worrying is that a breach of a single company linked back to 61 healthcare customers. The research reveals the impact of third-party attacks, how hard the healthcare sector has been hit by cyberattacks and just how rampant ransomware has been during Covid-19.
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