An average compliance cost is between $1.23 million to $2.71 million per company depending on number of employees.

Physical theft and lost computing devices are responsible for most of the health data that has been compromised.

5.1 million patient records exposed compromising the private information, personal identities and credit ratings of patients.

The loss of thousands of Australian websites causes data belonging to more than 4800 accounts to be destroyed.

Analysis of recent hacks finds that people commonly reuse logins and choose easy-to-crack passwords

Network security increased after recent significant and tenacious attack

Cyber criminals have all they need to convince people to share their highly valuable personal information.

Personal information of 3.5 million Texans exposed to public access on a government computer server for over a year

About 260 incidents have been reported to HHS since 2009 of 500 or more records breached at a time affecting 10 million patients.

The number of breaches is significantly up and more small businesses are being attacked.

Coreflood steals usernames, passwords and other private personal and financial information for a variety of criminal purposes

Alliance Data Systems must pay to upgrade information security systems, conduct audits, and pay fines, as well as indirect costs of lost sales

Severity of breaches are driving large-scale development of advanced cybersecurity products and services.

Millions of unique URLs have been infected with a rampant SQL injection attack Websense has dubbed LizaMoon.

Cybercriminals want large numbers of hacked computers running Microsoft Windows to help steal personal data

Theft of trade secrets, marketing plans, R/D data, and even source code on the rise

On intellectual property theft and data breaches companies prefer to stay out of limelight

Customers of AT and T browsing Facebook did so by way of China then Korea

There were 41,776 malicious attacks against federal networks reported to the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) in FY 2010,

Nearly two-thirds of schools suffer two or more breaches per year

Companies are more worried about data security than the environment, leading to a high percentage of IT equipment being destroyed rather than recycled

The IRS has done a poor job of fixing weaknesses in its information systems security that jeopardize the security of taxpayer information

Close to half of US office workers keep passwords written down to prevent halting workflow

Someone else may be filing your tax return

A large percentage of patients believe that EHRs will have a negative impact on the privacy of their health data

The United States health care industry is data-rich.

Identity and access control and data security are the two fastest growing segments of the cybersecurity market

It's a nightmare some victims feel they can never wake up from.

ORLANDO, FL – America's physicians are resisting the adoption of electronic health records in spite of substantial federal financial incentives to do so.

Should ISPs be the ones who keep hacked PCs off the Internet? Microsoft's chief security executive used to think so, but now he's had a change of heart.

Corporate America’s most sensitive documents are under assault, and recent breaches suggest companies’ security walls are less impenetrable than they may have realized.

The nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) recently released a report on data breaches in 2010 that is well worth considering

Survey reveals disturbing lack of communication about key security issues within enterprises, one exec says

Security experts urge CIOs to take a close look at their systems to spot the real weak points

A leading data security expert has warned UK businesses to be on "high alert" against hack attacks

Health care electronic data breaches raise significant issues for both patients and health care providers

A recent report by Health Information Trust Alliance provides an interesting and comprehensive overview of reported HIPAA Security breaches

Crowe Horwath looks at compliance issues for protected health information

No matter how many data security measures a company has in place to prevent hackers and outside intruders, breaches will continue to happen

Are you doing anything special to keep the sensitive information stored on your computers safe and sound?

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