As you head to the beach or hammock for a bit of R+R this summer, here is one that you might want on the reading list. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been publishing a report entitled “Who Has Your Back” since 2010. The point of the report is to assess major digital companies’ attitude … Continue Reading
Yahoo’s troubles for failing to timely disclose security breaches provides rare insight into quantifying the financial and other costs to a company’s shareholders and leadership when a security breach occurs and is mishandled. In 2014, more than a billion Yahoo accounts were hacked. Then in 2015 and 2016, more than 500,000 Yahoo user accounts were … Continue Reading
Verizon recently released its yearly Data Breach Investigations Report and as always, the report is a very informative read. The report gathered information from more than 64,000 security incidents worldwide in 2015, 2,260 of which were actual data breaches. One of the report’s most alarming statistics reveals that legitimate user credentials were used in most … Continue Reading
