In an example of dozens of known breaches and likely thousands of similar situations which never get reported, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a non-password protected, unsecured (sort of redundant) database containing 38.6 million records belonging to legal support services company Rapid Legal. The information left exposed included court documents, service agreements and payment information […]
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CNN published an explosive expose on how Airbnb fails to protect guests from hidden cameras. In a lawsuit brought by a victim whose vacation turned into a nightmare, a women was secretly recorded undressing at an Airbnb property, her images were stored on a computer belonging to an (alleged) sexual predator. The predator is accused […]
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NYC’s Gotham Restaurant Forced to Close After Cyber Scam Hopefully they will be able to re-open, but for businesses, the law is much less forgiving. The ritzy Greenwich Village restaurant fell for a business email compromise attack that had it send its payroll money to what they thought was their payroll service’s “new” bank account. […]
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I don’t even know where to go with this other than to say, unfortunately, I am not surprised. Likely not patching a known bug is probably not illegal, as is not disclosing it. Roll back almost a decade, in 2016, whistleblower and security expert Andrew Harris was working for Microsoft. He was investigating a breach […]
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CISA’s SECURE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ATTESTATION FORM rule comes into effect next week. It requires that companies that produce software and sell it to the government adhere to key security practices. It also requires that those developers attest to their practices. In writing. Signed by an executive of the company. It applies to companies that do […]
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Unfortunately, other than the very large water and other utilities, most utilities do not have the money, manpower or desire to secure their networks. We continue to hear more stories of successful attacks. In April a Russia-linked hacking group, the Cyber Army of Russia, claimed responsibility for an attack on a water and wastewater system […]
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