August 2017 White Board Update

September 4, 2017 at 5:00 pm | Posted in Cyber Security | Comments Off on August 2017 White Board Update
Tags: Awareness, Cyber Attack, Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Whiteboard

So the White board has been wiped for the new financial month at work and now I can reveal the statistics behind the last financial month of the incidents recorded in August.

As a reminder the criteria to get on this list is that the Breach/Attack needs to be reported in major media outlet and be over 5000 records in size.

•             Average Time between Attack/Breach 2.25 Days.
•             Over a Million Records Compromised
•             7 Cyber Attacks & 12 Data Breaches.
•             Two Large Scale DDoS Attacks this month
•             One Data breach was undiscovered for 14 years.

Some of the more interesting cyber security incidents of the last month has been the attempted attack of the Scottish Parliament and the news that due to an insider threat a hospital in the United States suffered a data breach that went undetected for fourteen years.

There was also the HBO Data breach where a Cyber Criminal attempted to blackmail HBO in order not to leak the data of the latest Game of thrones series.

However, even though the UK has been on holiday for much of the month of August the Cyber security incidents have now slowed down or eased off and have remained consistent with July.