Verizon DBIR Cryptography Challenge: Here’s The First Clue
So, according to a little birdie tweeting in the night, the 2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) contains another encryption challenge that leads to actual cash prizes. Shorten URL:...
View ArticleVerizon DBIR Challenge Clue #2
This year’s Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) challenge is well and truly underway. I see where the (public) contestants are stumped so, here’s a clue to nudge them along:Shorten URL:...
View ArticleAlex Hutton on the 2011 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report
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View ArticleThreats From Third Party Vendors Demand Vigilance
by B.K. DeLongWikileaks' decision this week to post the first of five million emails from Texas-based strategic intelligence firm Stratfor shone a spotlight on what experts say is a serious and growing...
View ArticleVerizon: Hacktivists Steal Most Data In 2011
It can be hard to parse the results of the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR), what with the shifts from year to year in the sources of breach data collected. Last year’s report, if you...
View ArticleVerizon DBIR Takes First Deep Dive into Cyberespionage
Targeted cyberespionage attacks have dominated discussions within the security community and outside of it from the mainstream media to the halls of the executive and legislative branches of...
View ArticleDBIR: Point-of-Sale Breaches Trending Downward
The 2014 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report reveals that point-of-sale intrusions are down, Web applications attacks are up, and DDoS and cyberespionage attacks merit watching.
View ArticleVerizon DBIR Challenges Data Breach Cost Estimates
Data breaches are expensive to victim organizations, but that cost is going down, according to Verizon, which today released its annual Data Breach Investigations Report.
View ArticleVerizon DBIR Top Threats: Credential Theft, Phishing and PoS
Most alarming is not what's new in Verizon's 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report, rather what's old and still causing chaos behind corporate firewalls.
View ArticleRansomware, Cyberespionage Dominate Verizon DBIR
Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report for 2017 shows big growth in the reported number of ransomware attacks and incidents involving cyberespionage.
View ArticleInsiders Continue to be Data Theft’s Best Friend
The enemy within the enterprise is often employees who are either malicious or unwittingly allowing attackers inside a protected network.
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