Three Quarters of a Billion Records Breached

Gemalto, a security firm that has been working since a long time has said that over 700 million records were breached last year. To add more, this record says that about two million data are stolen or lost records every day and the case is worsening more this year.

The 2015 breach report included:

• 1,673 hacking incidents

• 398 were triggered from the inside of the attacked company: employees and even IT staff who were tricked (social engineering) by hackers into clicking on malicious links or attachments

• Government agencies suffered the greatest data leaks.

• Following that were nation states and healthcare enterprises (remember the big Anthem breach?)

The security firm has also reported that the United States is the leading target of cyber attacks while countries like UK, Canada and Australia follow through. However, the number of cyber attacks in other countries seem to be very low as reported by the security firm.

Australia, despite ranking in the fourth place reported only 42 incidents last year while the US had 1,222, more than 20 times than in Australia.

You always need to stay aware to check if your computer has been compromised by an attack. You can check if your computer is running slowly or the device is moving at a crawl. While this might be due to problems in the processor, it generally marks the first sign of a potential infection.

In order to stay aware and secured, you need to employ protection against the viruses so that you can always stay safe from staged phishing attacks and tricks. Also, you need to make sure that the sensitive information that you have does not get leaked.

For that, you can contact a security firm or get a security software to protect your device from any kind of security breaches to stay on track and not let the Trojans attack you.

Also, data today are breached through emails and clicks that redirect you to a virus which downloads automatically, without letting you know. You need to make sure that the emails you are viewing are safe and don't rush to download the file attachment and open them.

Make sure that the email you are viewing is safe and that the file name of the contents attacked are safe and legit.

You can also use a virtual private network to protect yourself from cyber snoopers and keep your browsers and computers updated.

Also, make sure that you keep you data up to date from time to time so that you can recover data easily even when it gets breached.