It seems that many of you found my previous post of interest, so as promised, here’s the second part. But first, let’s all have a look at this 2min 48s video: Security Threats by the Numbers from the Cisco 2013 Annual Security Report. Unsurprisingly, the Trustwave GSR highlights that e-commerce sites were the most targeted asset, accounting for 48%…
It’s that time of year again where we try to make sense of all the new research and statistics. Today, I give you the Trustwave 2013 Global Security Report which analyses 400 data breach investigations (compared to 300 in 2011) across 29 countries (compared to 18 in 2011). Unsurprisingly, 96% of the breaches involved the theft of customer…
Yesterday, an article on CBS Money Watch caught my eye: Businesses deluded about threat of cyber-attack. The article was a short introduction to a recent survey conducted by Deloitte. And isn’t it spooky that the same old things keep cropping up everywhere?… Unsurprisingly, the Deloitte report highlights that 88% of the businesses surveyed believe that they are not really…
Source: Blizzard, 9th August 2012 Millions of account details have been stolen via a hack on battle.net, the account management and access system used in games such as World of Warcraft, StarCraft 2 and Diablo 3. The compromised accounts relate to those on the North American servers (which generally includes players from North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand,…
In one of my February posts, I wrote about incident response and the importance of addressing the media in a timely manner. Whilst the draft NIST report SP 800-61 gives really good guidelines on the positive aspects of fully and effectively communicating important information to the public, I feel there is some mileage to be had by exploring the use of social media when tackling incident
