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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"data breach"”.
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The Economics of Data Breach: Asymmetric Information and Policy Interventions
… networks. Successful attacks result in data breaches with private damages from business interruption, reputation, and investigation forensics. Social losses result from exposing individuals’ personal information, leading to state, national, and international policymakers enacting …
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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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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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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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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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A Framework for Hybrid Intrusion Detection Systems
… or loss of personal information. These breaches occur without the company’s knowledge and it often takes a while before the web application attack is revealed to the public, specifically because the security violations are fixed. Due to the need to protect their reputation, organizations …
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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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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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Predicting Risk and Optimizing Resilience of Digital and Physical Supply Chains
… geopolitical tensions, and cross-industry cyber breaches, highlighting the need for resilient and adaptive supply chain management. This thesis explores the role of data, machine learning, and analytics in developing predictive risk models to evaluate supply chain-related risks and optimizing the …
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Studying Dependency Maintenance Practices Through the Mining of Data from npm Packages
… maintenance. For example, in the "Equifax data breach", a vulnerability coming from an out-of-date dependency was explored to illegally obtain hundreds of millions of financial customers information Also, the "left-pad incident", in which a package with 11-lines of code was removed from …
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Towards Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace: Social Media Analytics on Hacker Communities
… hacker communities: malware sellers and stolen data sellers, both of which are responsible for data breach incidents. In the second essay, I develop a method for recovering social interaction networks, which can be further used for detecting major hacker groups, and identifying their specialties …
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What Work? Quasi-Experiments in Cybersecurity Policy Interventions
… efficacy by compiling mandatory state-level data breach reports to create novel breach incident data sets. A reduction in breach frequency serves as the kind of measurable outcome that regulators would intend cybersecurity policy interventions to address. To this end, I evaluate four …
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Data storage security for cloud computing using elliptic curve cryptography
… in the fields of information communication and data storage. With the proliferation of online activity, more and more information is saved as data every day. This means that more data is being stored in the cloud than ever before. Data that is stored online often holds private information – such …
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Searching over encrypted data
… storage and services. Concerns related to data confidentiality rise uncertainty for users maintaining sensitive information. There are many, recurrent, worldwide data breaches that led to the disclosure of users sensitive information. To name a few: a breach of Yahoo late 2014 and publicly …
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An Examination of the Privacy Impact Assessment as a Vehicle for Privacy Policy Implementation in U.S. Federal Agencies
… outcomes. Elite interviews enriched by process data and document analysis show how each organization undertook different approaches to PIA implementation over time. This study introduces the sociology of law literature using Lauren Edelman's conceptual framework to understand how organizations …
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A context-aware method for verifying user identity in pervasive computing environments
… of the system environment; hence, the data breach affects only the CAIV domain without compromising other domains.
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The Evolution of the Chief Technology Officer and the Modernization of Technology in Education
… rapid rise of cloud computing and more student data residing in the cloud, CTOs have been susceptible to third-party vendors data breaches or malware attacks. This is in addition to similar attacks that can happen internally with DDoS, ransomware or malware attacks on a school’s internal …
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Management and Organizational Influences on the Compliance Behavior of Employees to Reduce Non-malicious IT Misuse Intention
<p>The widespread use of information technology and information systems (IT) throughout corporations, too often includes employees who choose not to follow the stated policies and procedures in performing their job tasks. In many cases, this encompasses employees who mean no harm, but choose not to …
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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 …