Tom Jowitt reports: Organised crime and hacking groups may not be responsible for the spate of cyber-attacks against universities and colleges in the UK. This is said to be the conclusion of a security analysis of the attacks carried out by Jisc, the UK provider of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) services for the education…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Healthcare in the Cross Hairs: Insider Threat
Craig A. Newman writes: The healthcare industry has been in the sights of hackers for some time. But a recent survey found that the biggest threat in the sector comes from within. Verizon has just released its Protected Health Information Data Breach Report and found that 58% of the data security incidents in the industry…
Bugs in ProtonVPN, NordVPN Left Windows Vulnerable to Hackers
Adam Smith reports: ProtonVPN and NordVPN were exposed to vulnerabilities that could have allowed hackers to execute arbitrary code with administrator privileges on computers running Windows. The bugs, CVE-2018-3952 (affecting NordVPN) and CVE-2018-4010 (affecting ProtonVPN), were discovered by Cisco Talos security researchers and are similar to another security flaw (tracked as CVE-2018-10169) discovered in March…
Lifting the lid off cybercrime: Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Digest
Clare Ward writes: Once again, Verizon has opened the doors on the reality of a data breach with the launch of the Verizon 2018 Data Breach Digest (DBD) series, enabling businesses to read undisclosed stories from the company’s cyber-investigative vault. The Data Breach Digest series puts cybercrime in context, outlining the (anonymized) specifics of data…
Like Moths to a Flame
Doug Levin has a great piece on a real case of curious students exploring their K-12 district’s network. Of course, they “shouldn’t” have done that, right? Every adult in the room knows that, and the kids knew it, too. But the temptation was just soooooo great. So do read The Case of ‘Joseph Jones’ and the…
Deadly fire exposes wealthy man’s secret underground tunnels
Michael Kunzelman of Associated Press reports: The wealthy stock trader took elaborate steps to conceal the network of tunnels beneath his house in this Washington, D.C., suburb. Even the young man helping him dig them didn’t know where they were. A year ago, a deadly fire exposed Daniel Beckwi tt’s curious campaign to build an…