Articles Tagged with ''data theft''

When it comes to security breaches, consumers are clear about who they hold responsible.

According to a CardHub survey of 55 major retailers and 1,000 individuals, 42% of retailers have not updated the terminals in any of their stores and 56% of people don’t care if a retailer’s payment terminal is chip-enabled.
 

Only 37 percent of U.S. merchant locations are EMV-ready four months after the October 1st, 2015 liability shift.
 

Economic crime is on the rise, with cybercrime affecting almost a third of global businesses, according to a survey by PwC.
 

The majority of business decision makers admit that their organization will suffer an information security breach and that the cost of recovery could start from around $1 million.
 

The latest research on Cyber Resilience from the Ponemon Institute shows that 79 percent of security executives reported that they aren’t prepared for a cybersecurity incident.

Uber has been fined $20,000 by the New York Attorney General's office and instructed to improve security.

Retail fraud comes in many shapes and sizes and is especially rampant during the holiday season when online and in-store traffic grows significantly.
 

Consumer electronics vendor VTech Holdings warned of a data breach that affects 5 million customers on its Learning Lodge app store database.

The number of cyberattacks where malware holds user data “hostage” is expected to grow in 2016 as hackers target more companies and advanced software is able to compromise more types of data.