Research commissioned by the Government has revealed that 87% of all UK SMEs and 93% of firms with more than 250 staff had experienced at least one security breach in 2012. The 2013 Information Security Breaches Survey report, (22-page / 640KB PDF) published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, also outlined a growing trend…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
APF responds to AU’s data breach notification draft bill
The Australian Privacy Foundation has responded to Australia’s draft breach notification law. You can read their comments here. Not surprisingly, I agree with their concerns.
ICO FoI response reveals massive rise in data breach fines
Caroline Donnelly reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has stepped up its enforcement activities, by issuing double the number of data breach fines in 2012-2013 as it did in the previous 12 months. This is according to data obtained via a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by digital comms vendor ViaSat. […] Between March 2012…
Honor among (credit card) thieves?
A Michigan State University criminologist dug into the seamy underbelly of online credit card theft and uncovered a surprisingly sophisticated network of crooks that is unique in the cybercrime domain. The thieves, Thomas Holt found, run an online marketplace for stolen credit data similar to eBay or Amazon where reputations drive sales. Thieves sell data…
Verizon releases it 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report
Verizon has released the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). You can download the Executive Summary here and the full report here. The DBIR analyzes data from 19 organizations — covering more than 47,000 reported security incidents and 621 confirmed data breaches from the past year. Because VZ has the cooperation of so many organizations,…
UK: Dumped pupil records and lost ipads among Stoke City Council data breaches
As always, we need to consider whether breaches are actually increasing or if it’s a matter of breach awareness and disclosure increasing. In any event, there are too many avoidable “human error” breaches, it seems: Pupil records found dumped in a country lane and 20 missing ipads are among dozens of Stoke City Council data…