Articles Tagged with ''cybercrime''

Until the massive U.S. Target store credit and debit card data breach in 2013, the lasting impact of cybercrimes was a relatively unknown experience to most consumers, and it wasn’t on the top list of HR onboarding topics either.

The financial loss from cybercrime in the U.S. exceeded $1.3 billion in 2016, a rise of 24 percent, according to a report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency has published research into how and why some young people become involved in cybercrime. 

An operation targeting cybercrime across Asia has resulted in the identification of nearly 9,000 Command and Control servers and hundreds of compromised websites, including government portals.

Cybercrime is quickly shifting to the mobile space as mobile device malware infections reached an all-time high in 2016.

More than three-quarters of U.S. citizens are concerned about the privacy and security of their personal digital data, and almost two-thirds say they would feel more confident if government agencies with which they interact had stronger data-privacy and security policies.

It might be a more exciting story to claim a nation-state pilfered your data, but the more likely scenario is that your enterprise failed at some of the most basic tenets of cybersecurity hygiene, leaving the door open to script kiddies and opportunitistic hackers to run rampant in your system. Join us as we debunk 5 major data breach myths.