There are two flavors of insider threats. #1 is Edward Snowden. Skilled. Motivated. On a mission. Understands that there will be collateral damage. Knows that he or she is breaking the rules. Sometimes it is national security. Other times it is industrial espionage. Still other times it is pure curiosity. Often, but not always (such […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I talk a lot about the insider threat problem because it is prevalent and hard to stop. Cisco learned about that the hard way. Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh resigned from Cisco in April 2018. OK, good, time to move on. FIVE MONTHS LATER, he accessed Cisco’s infrastructure at Amazon and deployed code that shut down 16,000 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ransomware is an Equal Opportunity Business As American businesses deal with ever increasing ransomware attacks, larger ransom demands and ransom and extortion wrapped up together, we are not alone. Not that the fact that we are not alone should make us feel better. A new Iranian hacker group is using Dharma ransomware to go after […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China, Korea, Vietnam Escalate Hacking During Covid-19 Outbreak The Trump administration is calling out China for hacking our hospitals and research facilities who are looking for cures and vaccines for Covid-19. That should not be much of a surprise since China has always opted for stealing solutions vs. figuring them out themselves. At least that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Adams County, Wisconsin is now facing a crisis of confidence and likely some lawsuits as well. Why? On March 28, 2018, the county says, it uncovered “questionable activity” on county computer systems. Three months later, in late June, their investigation was complete. The result: 258, 120 people had their data illegally accessed. Data included protected […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Timehop Hack Compromises 21 Million Users In a bit of good news/bad news, the social media time capsule site Timehop said that it was hacked around July 4th, but that they interrupted the hack in progress. Still the hackers got usernames, passwords, email addresses, date of birth, gender, some phone numbers and other information for […]
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