Friday News

Equifax Fallout

Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services is recommending against re-electing 5 directors who sat on the audit and technology committees prior to the recent breach.  Equifax says that the breach will cost them an estimated $439 million through the end of this year and the company is facing hundreds of lawsuits.  The company has lost almost 20% of its market value since the breach was announced (Source: Reuters).

Casino Hacked Via Internet Connected Fish Tank Thermometer

The first question you might ask is why you need to have an Internet connected fish tank thermometer.  But an unnamed casino did and hackers attacked the thermometer and used it to gain access to the casino’s high roller database, which they then sucked out through the fish tank to the Internet.  Apparently, for real.   The moral of the story is that Internet of Things (IoT) security is important (Source: The Hacker News).

LocalBlox Leaks Info on 48 Million

While Facebook/Cambridge Analytica is in the news, other companies are doing the exact same thing.  Chris Vickery of Upgard found an Amazon S3 bucket with the entire dataset of information for 48 million people – names, addresses, emails, IP addresses, jobs, salary.  They get the information from scraping web sites and adding purchased information.  When contacted, they attempted to spin the situation, so you make your own assessment, but if you believe the story they are trying to spin after getting outed, no one would want to hire them. (source: ZDNet).

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