In 2018, a security issue at Facebook affected a whopping 50 million users. In 2017, 412 million user accounts was stolen from Friendfinder’s sites and 147.9 million customers were affected by the Equifax data breach. Just one year earlier, 3 billion Yahoo accounts were hacked while hackers managed to steal

Because of the great amount of personal information involved, medical records command a high value on the dark web and can be listed for up to $1,000 each – 10 times more than the average credit card data breach record. Cybercriminals can then easily obtain this information and impersonate legitimate

Nearly all successful email-based cyber attacks require the target to open files, click on links, or carry out some other action. While a tiny fraction of attacks rely on exploit kits and known software vulnerabilities to compromise systems, the vast majority of campaigns, 99%, require some level of human input

Blockchain is distributed ledger technology. The premise of blockchain is that everyone involved in the chain has the same version of the truth at the same time. Each block in the chain builds on the previous and each has a unique identifier.Blockchain technology is finding its way into more and

A survey of top IT security professionals has revealed that 40% believe paying out as part of a ransomware demand should be made illegal.The majority of respondents believed that businesses should never pay an attacker to decrypt their data, although more than 40% said they would either consider it or