Source: Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report Twenty-four percent of breaches involved ransomware this year, continuing its long-term upward trend as a primary attack strategy.

--Verizon Business today released the results of its 16th annual Data Breach Investigations Report, which analyzed 16,312 security incidents and 5,199 breaches. The median cost per ransomware more ...

A full 20% of breaches this year stemmed from exploitation of known vulnerabilities, a 34% increase from last year.

Attackers used a flaw in Verizon’s enterprise-customer portal to grab client data from the company, which has made a name for itself as an expert in responding to breaches.

The DBIR data set, which includes 1,935 confirmed data breaches and 42,068 security incidents across 84 countries, is compiled from 65 sources, including Verizon’s own investigation team as well ...

Weak and stolen passwords, poorly configured systems and error-riddled applications are at the core of nearly every data breach and security incident, according to the 2014 Verizon Data Breach ...

Sitting behind Verizon’s annual Data Breach and Investigations report is the Vocabulary for Event Recording and Incident Sharing, or VERIS, a framework for understanding and recording security ...

Verizon said that it only learned this week that Yahoo was hit with a massive security breach.On Thursday, the news broke that "at least" 500 million user accounts had been compromised, likely ...

This is one of the takeaways for federal cybersecurity officials from Verizon’s 2016 Data Breach Intelligence Investigations Report. Released to the public on Wednesday, the report often serves as a ...

The impact on Verizon's deal with Yahoo was not immediately clear. Major data breaches have become a routine event for corporate America and also for major government agencies and political groups.