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The volume of compromised records globally has increased on average by 224% each year since 2017, according to new findings shared by Imperva. In light of the GDPR’s third anniversary this week, the data security firm crunched statistics on thousands of breaches over the past few years to better understand the evolving risk to businesses. There were more records reported as compromised in January 2021 alone (878 million) than for the whole of 2017 (826…

Most US victims of pandemic-related identity fraud in 2020 still have not had their issues resolved, and a third (33%) claim they didn’t have enough money to buy food or pay for utilities last year as a result, according to a new report. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) based its new 2021 Consumer Aftermath Report on interviews with 427 identity crime victims who contacted the non-profit before and during the crisis. The FTC claimed that…

Attacks against operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) grew dramatically in the past few years. Indeed, a 2020 report found that digital attacks against those two kinds of assets increased by over 2000% between 2018 and 2020. Many of those attacks involved vulnerabilities in Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and other ICS hardware components or password spraying techniques. These types of security incidents are dangerous, as malicious actors can potentially misuse…

Tripwire’s May 2021 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Google Chrome, Adobe and Microsoft. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for macOS (CVE-2021-30657) and Google Chrome (CVE-2021-21220). Exploits for these vulnerabilities have been recently added to the Metasploit Exploit Framework. These systems should be patched as soon as possible. Up next is a patch for a memory corruption vulnerability in Internet Explorer. Next on the patch priority list…