Data breaches up 400 percent, 15 billion records compromised
The number of data breaches increased more than 400 percent in 2018 exposing almost 15 billion records, according to the […]
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GDPR compliance boosts business, study shows
Businesses that are embracing the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enjoy increased efficiency and are more attractive to investors, […]
Organizations Taking Less Time to Detect Breaches
Internal security teams at enterprise organizations are generally getting better at detecting compromises, but it’s still taking them well over […]
GDPR spurs cybersecurity improvements at biggest public companies
The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) spurred the UK’s biggest public companies to improve the measures they […]
Organisations should be doing more to achieve privacy accountability
The Global Privacy Enforcement Network’s (GPEN) annual intelligence gathering operation looked at how well organisations have implemented the core concepts […]
UK consumers more likely to abandon a breached company
A study by the payment security firm PCI Pal found British folks are far less forgiving of a company that […]
Consumers Worry About Personal Data Privacy But Few Take Action
Eighty-one percent of consumers say they’ve become more concerned about how companies use their data, while 87% think companies should […]
New Study Finds Millennials Concerned About Privacy, But Lax On Security
In a Rivetz-commissioned survey of 1,000 U.S. adults, Rivetz found that respondents were incredibly reliant on their smartphones: two-thirds of […]
85 percent of Chrome apps and extensions lack a privacy policy
New data from Duo Security shows that more that 85 percent of Chrome apps and extensions don’t have a privacy […]
83% of consumers now aware of marketers tracking their locations
The majority of people (63 percent) are now much more aware that marketers are using their personal data as compared […]
Companies worldwide recognize business benefits of privacy
Nearly all organizations worldwide are now recognizing that privacy investment is translating into upside business benefits. Organizations that have invested […]
Even if you’re off social media, your friends could be ruining your privacy
Social networks could use friends to predict what a person would post, researchers find. A new study from researchers at […]