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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Data breaches"”.
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The Effect of Data Breaches on Share Prices
Data breaches are the theft of sensitive information or the disruption of company operations through cybercriminal acts. This paper studies the impact data breaches have on stock prices. I use the findings to make a public policy recommendation which I believe will facilitate future cybersecurity …
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Identifying the origins of business’ data breaches utilizing covert timing channels
<p>Cybersecurity events and data breaches are on the rise and are very costly to businesses. Businesses rely on connectivity and information systems to conduct business, yet those same information systems can be breached and the organization's data exposed. Today, there is a heavy reliance of …
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Cyber-Assets at Risk (CAR): Monetary Impact of Personally Identifiable Information Data Breaches on Companies
… show that a group of hackers can cause a massive data breach, resulting in companies losing competitive advantage, reputation, and money. Governments have since taken some actions in protecting individuals and companies from such crime by authorizing federal agencies and developing regulations. To …
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Essays on hospital-level economic outcomes : evidence from psychedelic decriminalization and health system data breaches.
… Essay 3 examines 2009-2023 HIPAA breach data; quasi-experimental methods reveal transitory cost spikes that revert to baseline within five years, suggesting insurance coverage and managerial buffers limit losses. Collectively, the essays indicate psychedelic decriminalization generates …
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A prototype application for the measurement of data breach event intensity
<p>The data breach phenomenon is not new. People have valued information, its protection, and its security for centuries. A data breach is the loss of control over one’s information. In contemporary society (circa 2024), a data breach can occur in several ways: through accidental disclosure, …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Cyber Security Regulations
… and sensitivity of personal and professional data stored and shared online. As a result, there is a growing need for effective cyber security regulations to protect against data breaches and ensure the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information. The Health Insurance Portability and …
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Empirical Analysis of User Passwords across Online Services
Leaked passwords from data breaches can pose a serious threat if users reuse or slightly modify the passwords for other services. With more and more online services getting breached today, there is still a lack of large-scale quantitative understanding of the risks of password reuse and …
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Essays on Information Technology, Human Capital, and the Future of Work
… the returns to skills, by leveraging novel data from over 200 million online job postings from 2010 until 2020. I find large heterogeneity in skill returns across industries and identify potential (re)skill investment opportunities for workers. In the second essay, ’Digital Resilience: How …
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A STUDY OF CIOS' SELECTION, COMPENSATION, AND TURNOVER
… Third, I investigate the relationship between data breaches and Chief Information Officer (CIO) turnover. Executive turnover literature finds that CEOs and CFOs turnover when they fail to meet financial performance expectations. Unlike CEOs and CFOs, CIOs are directly responsible for IT …
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Evidence-based Cybersecurity: Data-driven and Abstract Models
… four cybersecurity phenomena. I show that data-driven and abstract modeling can reveal surprising conclusions about longterm, persistent problems, like spam and malware, and growing threats like data-breaches and cyber conflict. I present two data-driven statistical models and two abstract …
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Essays on digital and physical channels and mitigation mechanisms of identity frauds
… identity theft (IDT) risks following a data breach. We conceptualize IDT as a multi-stage process where criminals first unlawfully obtain a person’s identifying information (PII) through a data breach, then misuse the PII to assume the identity of the person, and ultimately, imposter as …
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Essays on Human Error in Electronic Health Records (EHR) Information Security
… of EHR systems; how the location where data are breached influence the severity of data breaches impacting the security and privacy of patient records; how unintended consequences from EHR adoption impact the productivity performance of the states healthcare systems (DMUs); and, how the …
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Enhancing DNS data exfiltration protection through SDN data plane programming
Data exfiltration has been a lucrative goal for malicious actors for many years, leading to a cycle of detection and avoidance that has driven the evolution of data exfiltration attacks. According to a 2019 Radware report, protecting private data was the highest area of investment for cyber …
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Cybersecurity in the workplace: factors that influence positive cybersecurity behavior against phishing in South African institutions
… security. It is estimated that more than 90% of data breaches are due to successful phishing attacks. They bring the maximum benefits with little to no cost for cyber attackers. Hence, this study aims to explain the factors that influence cybersecurity protective behaviour against phishing in …
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Preventing data leakage in web services
… using these applications can cause sensitive data leakage both on the server and client. On the server-side, applications collect and analyze sensitive user data to monetize it. Consequently, this sensitive data can leak through data breaches or can be accessed by malicious service providers. …
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A model to assess organisational information privacy maturity against the Protection of Personal Information Act
Reports on information security breaches have risen dramatically over the past five years with 2014 accounting for some high-profile breaches including Goldman Sachs, Boeing, AT&T, EBay, AOL, American Express and Apple to name a few. One report estimates that 868,045,823 records have been breached …
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Enhancing User Data Privacy and Trust through the Implementation of the OTrace Protocol: Development, Challenges, and Impact Assessment
In the digital age, safeguarding user data privacy and rebuilding trust in digital platforms have become critical priorities as data breaches and misuse continue to rise. This thesis ex- plores the novel traceability and accountability protocol - OTrace, which tackles these issues by providing …
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Breaking and Building Encrypted Databases
The subject of this thesis is encrypted databases: systems that use novel cryptographic techniques to store and efficiently query encrypted data. Motivated by the increasing frequency and severity of harmful data breaches, encrypted databases keep data encrypted at all times, ensuring that it is …
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A Review of Data Protection Regulations and the Right to Privacy: the case of the US and India
… that can capture individuals' personal data without their knowledge or consent poses a threat to their right to privacy and other additional human rights. The protection of the collection, storing, and transfer of users' personal data against data breaches also ensures that the right to …
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Privacy-Preserving Application of Blockchain Technologies
… new questions and concerns regarding user and data privacy; An important topic that is typically overlooked due to the lack of proper standards and procedures in an under-regulated technology. Identity theft and data breaches are already impacting users on the internet since enterprises are …
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