Cybersecurity

Data breaches fallout reach new heights as the number of exposed records soars

Dive Brief: Cyberattacks and data breaches are exposing personal data at an ever-growing rate, according to an Apple-commissioned study conducted by Stuart Madnick, professor of IT at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, published Thursday. More than 2.6 billion personal records were compromised in 2021 and 2022, and the number of records breached jumped 36% in 2022 […]

Cybersecurity

Healthcare’s road to redefining cybersecurity with modern solutions – Help Net Security

The rate of data encryption following a ransomware attack in healthcare was the highest in the last three years, according to Sophos. Ransomware attacks continue to grow in sophistication Among those organizations surveyed, cybercriminals successfully encrypted data in nearly 75% of ransomware attacks. This is the highest rate of encryption in the past three years […]