Data from Dark Reading’s latest Strategic Security Survey show that more companies experienced a data breach over the past year due to phishing than any other cause. The percentage of organizations reporting a phishing-related breach is slightly higher in the 2021 survey (53%) than in the 2020 survey (51%).
Phishing Remains #1 Phishing, malware, and denial-of-service attacks (the second two often caused by the first) remained the most common causes for data breaches in 2021. Data from Dark Reading’s latest Strategic Security Survey show that more companies experienced a data breach over the past year due to phishing than any other cause. The percentage of organizations reporting a phishing-related breach is slightly higher in the 2021 survey (53%) than…
What is Ransomware? “Ransomware” originates from two words: ransom and malware. A ransom, of course, is a price paid in exchange for a hostage; malware is a computer program intended to damage or hold hostage the device it infects. From this we can glean what a nasty piece of work ransomware is. The hostage in question is your company’s software-based infrastructure and data. Unfortunately, as with all technology, ransomware has…
Study The lead cybersecurity and law enforcement organizations from the US, UK, and Australia have performed a forensic study and issued a joint advisory naming the top 30 vulnerabilities that were most commonly abused by threat actors over the course of 2020 and 2021. Most of the vulnerabilities were related to remote access/work from home mechanisms deployed by organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic. “The rapid shift and increased use of…
Data breach at MassHealth.
A third-party vendor’s data breach exposed over 2,000 MassHealth patients’ PHI.
