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What last year’s biggest data breaches have taught us about authentication [Q&A]

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) there were 1.1 billion breaches in the first half of 2024 — […]

Oracle has reportedly suffered 2 separate breaches exposing thousands of customers‘ PII

Trustwave’s Spider Labs, meanwhile, said the sample of LDAP credentials provided by rose87168 “reveals a substantial amount of sensitive IAM […]

60 percent of healthcare organizations unprotected against a second major data breach

Inconsistent adoption of DMARC standards is leaving 60 percent of US healthcare organizations that have already reported breaches exposed to […]

Google Chrome may soon use “AI” to replace compromised passwords

Google’s Chrome browser might soon get a useful security upgrade: detecting passwords used in data breaches and then generating and […]

Data breaches in UK legal sector up over a third

Analysis by NetDocuments of information collected by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reveals a sharp increase in data breaches […]

Software-as-a-Service breaches surge 300 percent

A new report from Obsidian Security reveals an unprecedented 300 percent year-on-year increase in SaaS breaches between September 2023 and […]

Over 195 million records breached in ransomware attacks last year

In 2024, ransomware groups claimed responsibility for 5,461 successful ransomware attacks on organizations worldwide. Of these 1,204 were confirmed by […]

Health care giant Ascension says 5.6 million patients affected in cyberattack

Health care company Ascension lost sensitive data for nearly 5.6 million individuals in a cyberattack that was attributed to a […]

Data breach trends — progress, challenges, and what’s next [Q&A]

Despite organizations putting in place better security controls the pace of data breaches shows no signs of slowing down. We […]