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…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
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…
Eight years of data breaches in higher education
Courtesy of Open-Site.org, used under Creative Commons License: Click on image for larger version. For more breaches from the education sector, including k-12 breaches, see DataLossDB.org.
Research reveals damage that privacy breaches can cause
One of the concerns I’ve repeatedly expressed about surveys about churn and reactions to breaches is that they tend to ask people what they think consumers do, and not what they actually have done. Now we have a bit more actual data on churn from a new report based on interviews with over 750 Internet…