Incident
Accenture Faces $50 Million Ransom Demand
August 20 by Lisa MorganAccenture did not respond to the first demand window of four hours. Regardless, whatever advice the company is giving should be the advice it takes or it will have an ever bigger potential PR problem.
2021 Top Breaches: Part II
July 23 by Seth AdlerQ2, 2021 saw the Colonial Pipeline breach, the JBS breach, fallout from the Microsoft Exhchange breach, a massaive Facebook data leak, another large health system breach and more municipal breaches.
2021 Top Breaches: Part I
April 02 by Seth AdlerQ1, 2021 saw the fallout from the Solarigate which of course began last year as well as the gargantuan Microsoft Exchange incident. Not to be outdone, nation state actors also showcased real world aff...
IOTW: Another Solarigate Target Identified by Microsoft
January 22 by Seth AdlerMicrosoft’s investigation into Solarigate, has identified yet another victim. Mimecast is a cloud-based email management system that incorporates security, archiving, and other services into the Offic...
2020 Top Breaches: Part II
December 23 by Seth AdlerThe pandemic has been a breeding ground for quick cyber wins around the healthcare industry, the distribution of government money and the education space due to collaboration platforms.
IOTW: Will There Be An Incident Of Impact On Tuesday’s Election?
October 30 by Seth AdlerThe United States presidential election is four days away. Last Wednesday, government officials released a statement about Russian and Iranian hacking threats. On Thursday, more information followed....
Threat Landscaping
October 27 by Seth AdlerThreat intelligence is one of those posture-forward initiatives. Our upcoming Year-End Report will shed light on the fact that it is a growing focus for the community. In concert with that growing foc...
IOTW: Hactivist Group Anonymous Leaks Police Department Intel
June 26 by Seth AdlerAfter a decade of relative inactivity, self-described hactivist group Anonymous takes credit for a 269-gigabyte data dump of police department, fusion center, and law enforcement files. Dubbed BlueLea...
Building The Business Case For Enterprise Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM)
September 10 by Jeff OrrOrganizations are increasingly reliant on third-party vendors, suppliers, and service providers to scale efforts beyond current personnel headcount. Hundreds of data breaches related to cloud misconfi...
Insiders Are Most Common Threat Actors In Healthcare
May 15 by Rebecca WynnMost people do not enjoy going to the doctor's office or to the hospital, but once it becomes unavoidable we all need to believe fervently that the good women and men who are providing us care are jus...
Top 5 Q3 Stories Involve T-Mobile, CCPA, Budgets & More
September 27 by Dan GundermanThus far, 2018 has been an insightful year for cyber security practitioners, with its share of challenges. In that spirit, here are our Top 5 stories from Q3 which have garnered interest from the ente...
Incident Of The Week: Unsecure Cloud Could Have Compromised 123M Americans
December 22 by Dan GundermanIn this edition of “Incident of the Week,” we examine the exposure of sensitive information from 123 million American households due to a faulty setup on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account.
