What’s the most valuable piece of data owned by individuals? A look at recent data breaches suggested that financial information is sought by malicious actors to generate short-term gains, while health care information offers long-term opportunity for cybercriminals to wreak havoc.
4 November 2015, Security Intelligence
But here’s the bigger concern: As genome databases grow and access to this data becomes more commonplace, the distance between “unknown” and “maliciously compromised” begins to shrink. For cybercriminals, a bigger attack surface and the trickle-down effect of stored data from first to subcontracted third parties represents the ideal threat vector…Read more >>>