- Garmin's long-running outage is a case study in how not to handle an IT meltdown and cybersecurity attack and may indicate a longer recovery than expected.
- You could almost smell the panic as Garmin dealt with a ransomware attack that brought down numerous systems including Garmin Connect, the software that holds data on your runs, workouts, and activities as well as production systems and call centers.
- You need to recall is how Strava data was able to pinpoint troops and then you realize how valuable Garmin data could be.
- Now the Pentagon has banned GPS devices, but the Strava incident gives you an idea of what's possible.
- Larry Dignan | July 27, 2020
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- Companies that don’t change their perception about data protection are increasing their odds of suffering a data breach by a whopping 80% and, in the event of a breach, will face fines seven times larger than companies with the best scores, according to a new report.
- The correlations between the likelihood of experiencing data breaches and poor privacy practices stem from willful ignorance, oversight of privacy best practices that increase risk exposure, and company culture around responsible data stewardship.
- Filip Truta | July 27, 2020
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- University secretary Michaela Boryslawskyj said in an email to members of its community that it was notified by Blackbaud that Sheffield Hallam and a number of other universities had been affected by the incident.
- As detailed in the Sheffield Star, the email said Blackbaud’s systems were hacked and personal information relating to its alumni and other members of the community were stolen on Thursday July 16 2020.
- As IT infrastructure is gradually moved to the cloud, organizations must ensure how they transfer data is secure and that its stored safely.
- Dan Raywood | July 27, 2020
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- One evening in January, a Kanpur-based college student in his early 20s got a phone call from an unknown number.
- The engineering undergraduate, who did not wish to be identified, had been spending a lot of time on dark web forums. He’d even been searching for “hacking tutorials" on Google.
- His digital footprint had left behind a trail.
- Prasid Banerjee | July 27, 2020
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- Businesses around the world see cybersecurity as a top investment following a mass move to remote working, and it is expected that technology budgets will rise despite uncertain economic times.
- 44% of business leaders surveyed said the pandemic accelerated their move to cloud solutions, while 82% say COVID-19 changed the way they interact or deliver products and services to customers.
- These results indicate a shift and investment into transformation projects that move from on-premises security solutions to next generation cloud-native solutions as organisations look to protect today's distributed workforce.
- Catherine Knowles | July 26, 2020
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- The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has sent an alert on Thursday warning US companies about backdoor malware that is silently being installed on the networks of foreign companies operating in China via government-mandated tax software.
- The backdoors allow threat actors to execute unauthorized code, infiltrate networks, and steal proprietary data from branches operating in China.
- Making matters worse, the FBI says that all foreign companies are required by local Chinese laws to install this particular piece of software.
- Catalin Cimpanu | July 24, 2020
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- In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. had exposed approximately 885 million records related to mortgage deals going back to 2003.
- On Wednesday, regulators in New York announced that First American was the target of their first ever cybersecurity enforcement action in connection with the incident, charges that could bring steep financial penalties.
- The records exposed by First American would have been a virtual gold mine for phishers and scammers involved in so-called Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams, which often impersonate real estate agents, closing agencies, title and escrow firms in a bid to trick property buyers into wiring funds to fraudsters.
- According to the FBI, BEC scams are the most costly form of cybercrime today.
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- CouchSurfing, an online service that lets users find free lodgings, is investigating a security breach after hackers began selling the details of 17 million users on Telegram channels and hacking forums.
- The CouchSurfing data is currently being sold for $700, ZDNet has learned from a data broker, a person who buys and sells hacked data for profit on the hacking underground.
- Catalin Cimpanu | July 23, 2020
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- Data from what appeared to be hundreds of thousands of Instacart customers emerged on at least two dark web marketplaces.
- A total of 278,531 accounts were listed for sale, and the data doesn’t appear to be old or outdated, either.
- In fact, some profiles appear to contain data as recently as the day before the listings were officially posted to the Dark Web.
- James Gelinas | July 23, 2020
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- The possibility of the US following India in banning TikTok became stronger after a proposal to bar the downloading of the short video-sharing platform on government-issued devices got the backing of the US House of Representatives.
- On June 29, India banned 59 Chinese apps which also included the video-sharing app owned by Chinese unicorn ByteDance.
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