Winter Olympics “draws hackers like flies to a candle,” cybersecurity expert says
The Department of Homeland Security alert warned travelers to Pyeongchang that their mobile devices could be monitored or compromised.
Viewpoint: Equifax breach is a reminder of society’s larger cybersecurity problems
Several major problems need to be addressed before people can live in a truly secure society: For example, companies must find and hire the right people to actually solve the overall problems and think innovatively rather than just fixing the day-to-day issues.
read more »Uber says hackers behind data breach were in Canada, Florida
About 25 million users affected by the breach are users located in the United States, John Flynn, chief information security officer at Uber, said in written testimony to a Senate Commerce Committee panel.
read more »Consumer Reports finds Samsung, Roku TVs vulnerable to hacking
“We found that a relatively unsophisticated hacker could change channels, play offensive content or crank up the volume, which might be deeply unsettling to someone who didn’t understand what was happening,” Consumer Reports said. “This could be done over the web, from thousands of miles away.”
read more »How a Sneaky Data Hack Increases Liability Risks for Corporate Directors
Statistics show that once data thieves are in, they can hide for months undiscovered until they strike again – this time at an even greater cost to the victim and their vendors and partners. Data thieves got inside Target through an air conditioning/heating vendor and loitered at their leisure and Yahoo! and Equifax still isn’t certain who or how they were breached.
read more »Hacked at Sea: Concerns Grow Over Lax Cybersecurity for Ships, Ports
“The delays were six to eight hours to pick up a container,” said Jeffrey Bader, chief executive of the trucking company Golden Carriers, recalling when a terminal in Elizabeth, New Jersey, switched to manual operations while its systems were down. “The line was many, many miles long. Trucks, trucks, trucks.”
read more »What your employees need to know about cybersecurity
Entire business models are based on this kind of fraud. Let’s pretend I am going to build a site with the world’s best collection of cute pet pictures. I’ll give you the first 10 for free (and those 10 are the most adorable pictures you have ever seen), but to see more, you need to set up a username and password. The access is still free, though.
read more »Equifax, Strava, And Russian Facebook Ads: How To Hold Websites Accountable For Data Breach
One common thread running through these notorious cases of recent privacy breaches is the potential harm arising from tracking people. Strava, Facebook, and Equifax created phenomenal databases of people’s behavior. Each of these platforms uses the data for many good purposes, but they also, unintentionally and sometimes negligently, expose the data to harmful uses.
read more »War room to boardroom: The new era of cybersecurity
Facebook’s hire of its first-ever head of cybersecurity policy is recognition that protecting corporations from foreign hacking is an increasingly serious matter.
read more »Top 7 Cyber Security Threats of 2018
To prevent your computer from getting hijacked avoid clicking on unknown links, keep security software up to date, and back-up everything on an external hard drive.
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