When it's a choice between maintaining critical, life-saving services or refusing to give in to cyber criminals, healthcare providers face a high-risk, controversial decision when it comes to ransomware demands.

Australia launched its first online census this week, but after multiple denial-of-service attacks, it was quickly forced to shut down.

Three-quarters of business continuity managers fear the possibility of an unplanned IT and telecoms outage, and 73 percent worry about the possibility of a cyber attack or data breach, according to the annual Business Continuity Institute (BCI) Horizon Scan.

The legal consequences of cyberattacks, such as class-action lawsuits on behalf of victim third-parties, are a growing worry of business owners, and businesses without cyber insurance are vulnerable to cybercrime and any consequential litigation, according to Solace Insurance.

As many as 508,000 U.S. jobs may have been lost as a result of cybercrime, as well as $100 billion in losses, a new report says.