Remove CSO Remove Data breaches Remove Social Engineering
article thumbnail

8 IT security disasters: Lessons from cautionary examples

CSO Magazine

Anyone who follows cybersecurity is aware of the steady drumbeat of data breaches and attacks. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. 2012: Court Ventures gets social-engineered. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. 2012: Court Ventures gets social-engineered.

article thumbnail

BrandPost: Lessons in Security: School District Shares Pandemic Experiences

CSO Magazine

The education sector is a top target for cybercriminals, and faces “an unusually large percentage” of social engineering attacks, according to the 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. The coronavirus pandemic, which spurred many individuals to study and work remotely, added to the industry’s challenges.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Survey: Alarming Number of IT Professionals Told to Conceal Breaches

SecureWorld News

Imagine your company experienced a major data breach, but instead of notifying the appropriate parties and taking necessary actions, you were instructed to keep it quiet! was also leading the list in terms of the percentage of respondents who claimed they'd been told to keep a breach concealed (71%).

article thumbnail

A Clear and Present Need: Bolster Your Identity Security with Threat Detection and Response

Duo's Security Blog

“It took nearly 11 months (328 days) to identity and contain data breaches resulting from stolen or compromised credentials.” – IBM’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2023 I recently came across a 2012 article from CSO Online , and realized that it has been more than 11 years since the phrase “Identity is the new perimeter” was coined!

article thumbnail

NEW TECH: Data Theorem helps inventory sprawling APIs — as the first step to securing them

The Last Watchdog

That’s how they’re going to transfer data in, hopefully, a secure channel to pass information back and forth with each other.”. However, APIs are also more frequently the source of data breaches and other cyber incidents. No one really knows exactly how many APIs are out there. And that’s just one phone. Postal Service.

article thumbnail

BrandPost: Secure Microsoft 365 with Reveal(x) 360 Network Detection and Response

CSO Magazine

Once an identity or set of credentials is compromised, any data they have access to is at risk and the identity can be used as part of a social engineering or spear-phishing attack to access more privileged credentials. To read this article in full, please click here

article thumbnail

Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

Making matters worse, the cameras employ facial recognition technology, which leads to questions as to whether an attacker could actually identify individuals caught on camera and then pursue them as targets for social engineering schemes or something even more nefarious. Odds are more than one was breached here,” said Davisson. “I