Human error and data breaches go hand in hand

There have been significantly more data breaches this year, compared to the year before, new figures from Egress Software Technologies suggest. The company cross-checked data from security breaches in the past three years and says that 66 percent of the business sectors surveyed reported an increase in data breach occurrences. It would have been even higher if healthcare organizations haven’t had "just" a 13 percent increase. Attacks against insurance firms jumped 317 percent, general businesses 157 percent, solicitors and barristers 127 percent, and even charities at 109 percent. But perhaps even more worryingly, the report says that human error accounted… [Continue Reading]