Michelle Del Guercio writes: On June 8, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (“HC3”) published Types of Cyber Threat Actors That Threaten Healthcare. In that publication, they identify five basic types of insider threats: careless or negligent workers malicious insiders inside agents disgruntled employees third parties In 2016, when Protenus and DataBreaches first began collaborating on…
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Arizona man who extorted Georgia Tech sentenced to prison
ATLANTA, July 27 – Ronald Bell has been sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for extorting Georgia Tech. Bell recruited a security guard to falsely claim that the guard witnessed an assault by its basketball coach in exchange for part of the extortion payout he expected to receive from the university. “Ronald…
TX: City of Odessa dealing with data breach
Micah Allen reports: According to the City of Odessa, mayor Joven was advised that the city dealt with a serious data breach. It was discovered that accounts assigned to a terminated high-ranking employee have been recently accessed, and sensitive information was transferred. Read more at CBS7, who will be reporting more on this story later…
UK: Man jailed for more than three years for attempting to extort money from the company he worked for
Here’s your reminder today of the insider threat, from the South East Organised Regional Crime Unit. This case was previously noted by BleepingComputer. A 28-year-old man who tried to extort money from the company he worked for has been jailed for three years and seven months. At Reading Crown Court today (11/7) Ashley Liles, of…
Tracy Resident Charged With Computer Attack On Discovery Bay Water Treatment Facility
Here’s your reminder for today of the insider threat: OAKLAND – A federal grand jury has indicted Rambler Gallo, charging him with intentionally causing damage to a protected computer after he allegedly accessed the computer network for the Discovery Bay Water Treatment Facility, located in the Town of Discovery Bay, Calif., and intentionally uninstalled the…
Deputy U.S. Marshal Pleads Guilty to Obtaining Cell Phone Location Information Unlawfully
This Department of Justice – Office of Inspector General press release from June 30 is a recent reminder of the insider threat: A deputy U.S. Marshal pleaded guilty today to misusing a law enforcement service to obtain cell phone location information for personal use. According to court documents, Adrian Pena, 49, of Del Rio, Texas,…