New Survey Shows 79% Of Businesses Experienced A Mobile Security Incident In The Past Year

Survey shows that 67% of firms allow personal mobile devices to connect to their networks. Source: Dark Reading

5 Big Database Breaches Of Spring 2013

During the past couple of months, data breaches have ranged from the mundane to the fantastic, with each occurrence offering valuable lessons for security professionals with regard to locking down databases and the applications that access them. Source: Dark Reading

Human error and system glitches drive nearly two-thirds of data breaches

According to the Ponemon Institute's 2013 Cost of Data Breach Study, human errors and system problems caused two-thirds of data breaches in 2012. They also pushed the global average cost to $136 per compromised record. Source: Infosecurity Magazine

Proxy research firm settles charges with SEC over client breach

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a research firm the advises clients on voting in proxy fights, must pay $300,000 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to settle charges that it failed to protect client information due to access control shortfalls. Source: SC Magazine

Wyndham Hotels court battle over FTC data security authority heats up again

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed fresh documents asking a U.S. District Court in New Jersey to reject a hotel chain's motion to dismiss a complaint filed against it following multiple data breaches. Source: SC Magazine

Almost half of employees admit to bypassing security controls

Almost half of all employees in a recent survey admitted to bypassing security regulations in order to get their job done. Source: Infosecurity Magazine

Administrative error exposes personal data of 10,200 neurology patients

A New York State medical practice mistakenly emailed the personal information of several thousand patients to other individuals it was treating. Source: SC Magazine