The technology to prevent data breaches exists, yet hackers are still breaking into major organizations with ease. A few best practices will help keep your sensitive data safe.
The volume and profile of data breaches are not only growing — they’re accelerating. In just one year, from 2018 to 2019, reported breaches jumped 54 percent. The first half of 2019 alone saw more than 4.1 billion compromised records due to hackers and poor security practices.
Account takeover and fraud schemes are costing consumers, banks, retail organizations, healthcare and other online businesses billions of dollars each year. What’s more, the cost of these attacks is on the rise—according to Riskified, losses from account takeover rose 122 percent from 2016 to 2017 and increased by 164 percent the following year.
Fifty-six percent of consumers in North America and Europe are concerned about the switch to biometrics, and 81 prefer passwords for online payments due to security concerns, according to the report “Lost in Transaction: The end of Risk?”.
As companies increase their cybersecurity defenses, fraudsters are now targeting call centers with easily obtained and plentiful personally identifying information and they are sharing it too.
New research from the WatchGuard Threat Lab reveals that 50 percent of government and military employee LinkedIn passwords, largely from the US, were weak enough to be cracked in less than two days.
Research from Goode Intelligence sets out the qualitative and quantitative basis for the return on investment from the use of biometric authentication.
For the first time in recent years, credit card fraud -- which remains the highest fraud type for online retailers -- has dropped from 59 percent of total fraud found in the 2016 holiday week to 42 percent of total fraud found in 2017 the holiday week.
eBay is developing a new authentication program for some of its higher-end items to create a network of professional authenticators it can use to verify that products are legitimate.