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RSA’s April Online Fraud Report 2013, with a focus on the changes in Phishing tactics
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 13/05/2013
Phishing still stands as the top online threat impacting both consumers and the businesses that serve them online. In 2012, there was an average of over 37,000 phishing attacks each month identified by RSA. The impact of phishing on the global economy has been quite significant: RSA estimates that worldwide losses from phishing attacks cost […]
RSA’s March Online Fraud Report 2013, with a focus on Email and Identity takeover
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 26/03/2013
RSA’s March 2013 Online Fraud Report delivers the results from RSA’s fraud monitoring centre, a summary of the report is below. Phishing attacks are notorious for their potential harm to online banking and credit card users who may fall prey to phishers looking to steal information from them. Compromised credentials are then typically sold in […]
Receptionist prosecuted for breaching the Data Protection Act
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 12/03/2013
Another nosy parker faces the results of their snooping after she decided to spy on her ex-husband’s new wife. The GP receptionist at a Southampton surgery was prosecuted by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for unlawfully obtaining sensitive medical records. The ICO reported on the 12th March 2013 that Marcia Phillips was prosecuted under section […]
An update on the progress of the European Data Protection Act
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 12/03/2013
At last week’s Information Commissioners Data Protection Officers Conference in Manchester I had the privilege of being updated on the progress, or lack of progress, of the revised European Data Protection Act. With the existing directive dating back over 17 years an upgrade is well over due but there is significant pressure from businesses to […]
Lack of guidance on BYOD raises data protection concerns
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 08/03/2013
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has commissioned a survey into business attitudes towards Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). The survey results shown many employers appear to have a ‘laissez faire’ attitude to allowing staff to use their personal laptop, tablets or smartphone for at work and for work business, which may be placing people’s personal information […]
The growing threat of insider fraud not a top security priority for organizations
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 01/03/2013
An Attachmate sponsored Ponemon Survey indicates the growing threat of insider fraud is not a top security priority for organizations which is proving to be a costly mistake. On average, organisations experience approximately one fraud event per week, according to information from the second annual Attachmate and Ponemon Institute survey, “The Risk of Insider Fraud“ However, only […]
Survey reveals companies are taking risks whilst outsourcing consumer data
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 28/02/2013
Experian Data Breach Resolution and the Ponemon Institute survey results identify opportunity for improved data oversight. The study, “Securing Outsourced Consumer Data”, reveals that many organizations (46%) do not evaluate the security and privacy practices of vendors before sharing sensitive or confidential information. The survey of almost 750 individuals in organizations that transfer consumer data to third-party vendors. […]
What happens after a data breach?
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 27/02/2013
A report by Solera Networks and Ponemon reveals rise in security breaches, with organisations taking months to detect and contain them. The Ponemon report “The Post Breach Boom”’ commissioned by Solera Networks polled 3,529 IT and IT security professionals in eight countries to understand the steps they are taking in the aftermath of malicious and […]
Big Data Analytics can improve IT Security defences
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 27/02/2013
A new study by the Ponemon Institute, Big Data Analytics in Cyber Defense, confirms that Big Data analytics offers substantial benefits to organisations but adoption is very slow. The report commissioned by Teradata Corporation contains some interesting results: Cyber-attacks are getting worse but only 20% say their organizations are more effective at stopping them. The greatest areas of […]
How Employees are Putting Your Intellectual Property at Risk
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 25/02/2013
“What’s Yours is Mine: How Employees are Putting Your Intellectual Property at Risk” is a white paper produced by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of Symantec. The paper reviews the way employees perceive corporate data and their mindset and motivations for copying data and Intellectual Property Key Findings Employees are moving IP outside the company […]
RSA’s February Online Fraud Report 2013 including an update on Phishing activity
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 22/02/2013
RSA’s February 2013 Online Fraud Report delivers the results from RSA’s fraud monitoring centre, a summary of the report is below. Phishing still stands as the top online threat impacting both consumers and the businesses that serve them online. In 2012, there was an average of over 37,000 phishing attacks each month identified by RSA. […]
More Than 12 Million Identity Fraud Victims in 2012, study finds
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 21/02/2013
Javelin Strategy & Research have released their 2013 Identity Fraud Report with some startling results the scariest being “one in four consumers who receive a data breach letter will become the victim of identity fraud.” This means the days when a breached organisation would try to keep a breach quiet with the hope that it would […]
Mobile phone users are not concerned with security until there is a breach and then they blame their provider
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 19/02/2013
Crossbeam Systems have released research into Mobile Phone user’s opinions on security. The most revealing finding was that compromised security, rather than high monthly fees, would be the biggest reason for UK smartphone users to change mobile network providers. The independent blind survey of 1,076 UK adult smartphone users and bill payers examined: – usage habits […]
Nursing and Midwifery Council fined for breaching the Data Protection Act
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 16/02/2013
The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued a £150,000 fine to the Nursing and Midwifery Council was for breaching the Data Protection Act. The Nursing and Midwifery Council lost three DVDs related to a nurse’s misconduct hearing, which contained confidential personal information and evidence from two vulnerable children. In October 2011 the DVDs, containing confidential information, […]
Securing Patient data has improved massively but still has work to do
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 08/02/2013
In it’s recent Winter 2013 Newsletter Experian released the details of the fifth annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) which they sponsored. The survey found many areas of improvement and highlighted them in the infographic below: Key highlights from the HIMSS study include: Only 38% of the respondents encrypt mobile devices, such as smartphones […]
RSA’s January Online Fraud Report 2013 including an excellent summary of Phishing in 2012
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 30/01/2013
RSA’s January 2013 Online Fraud Report delivers the results from RSA’s fraud monitoring centre, a summary of the report is below. The total number of phishing attacks launched in 2012 was 59% higher than 2011 It appears that phishing has been able to set yet another record year in attack volumes, with global losses from […]
Top 20 Most Trusted Companies for Privacy – 2012
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 28/01/2013
Ponemon has released is list of the Top 20 most trusted companies and how they ranked in 2012 and 2011. Top 20 Most Trusted Companies for Privacy (2012 Rank, 2011 Rank) is below American Express (1, 1) Hewlett Packard (2, 2) Amazon (3, 5) IBM (4, 3) / US Postal Service (4, 6) Procter & […]
The Information Commissioner provides an update on the European Data Protection Act
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 26/01/2013
David Smith the UK’s Deputy Commissioner of the Information Commission has commented on the progress of the Revise European Data Protection Act. Put simply, the proposals could prove to be one of the biggest changes to data protection this country has ever seen. Against that backdrop it is no surprise that we’ve been monitoring events in […]
2012 saw a 5% increase in fraud
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 21/01/2013
CIFAS (Credit Industry Fraud Avoidance System) is a not-for-profit membership association representing the private and public sectors. CIFAS is dedicated to the prevention of fraud, including staff fraud, and the identification of financial and related crime. CIFAS operates two databases: National Fraud Database (NFD) Staff Fraud Database (SFD) CIFAS’s analysis of fraud trends during 2012 reveals a 5% increase […]
2012: “A year of Identity & Fraud” a review by Experian
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 04/01/2013
Experian, a global information services company has posted two summaries of its research and blogs for 2012. I have taken the information that relates to Identity theft and fraud and consolidated it into one post. In March, Experian revealed its latest research which estimated £1.02 billion worth of online shopping transactions were abandoned the previous year […]
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