A few years ago we’d be surprised to learn about a public data breach once a month. However, nowadays two nation states can suffer major hacks in the same week. If you have trouble keeping up with the weekly security news yourself, let our vlog help you with a short recap.
This week’s episodes shares two stories about nation states losing their citizen’s data, as well as a more light-hearted story about a researcher hacking garage door openers. Press play on the YouTube video below for all the details, and check the Reference section for links to other interesting news.
(Episode Runtime: 8:52)
Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmzOZPnSg8k
Show Note: I’m attending Gartner’s Security and Risk Management Summit with week, so I may not be able to do my daily videos every day. I’ll return to the normal schedule next week.
EPISODE REFERENCES:
- Japan Pension System hacked
- Cyber attackers steal 1.2M records from Japan Pension System – Reuters
- Hackers steal pensioner data – The Register
- Hacker pwns garage door openers – Wired
- OPM Data Breach
- Chinese breach 4M records from OPM – The Washington Post
- OPM officially confirms the data breach – OPM.gov
- FBI to investigate OPM breach – FBI.gov
- Long form article on OPM breach – NY Times
- OPM hackers got 30yrs of data – Reuters
- OPM attacker bypass EINSTIEN3 – Bloomberg
- US threatens sanctions against OPM attackers – The Guardian
- Will OPM hackers go after UK next? – Independent
- OPM hack discovered during security upgrade – Slate
EXTRAS:
- Hola says it fixes is holes, security folks disagree – Motherboard
- Security pen-test hacks GoPro 4 WiFi – IT Pro Portal
- Ransomware author apologizes for “accidental” sleeper malware – Network World
- Attackers can install rootkit with Mac flaw – The Register
- Grabit malware targets SMBs – SC Magazine
- Researchers claim they can track folks on the Dark Web – Motherboard
- BBC deals with a 1000 security incidents a month – V3.co.uk
- Upcoming documentary to highlight the Sony Pictures hack – The Guardian
- 60 more SOHO router security vulnerabilities – Computer World
- Holo CEO fires back against critics – Business Insider
- Tox’s author abandons his creation – Business Insider
- Latest Snowden leak talks about warrantless snooping – The Register
- SourceForge accused of hijacking Nmap – Digital Trends
- How apps track you – Trustlook Blog
- You can now use PGP on Facebook – Ars Technica
- MEDJACK attacks target medical devices – SC Magazine
- Why your medical data is a hacker jackpot – Digital Trends
- Researcher uses printer lasers as a backchannel – PC World
- Anonymous rages against Sabu’s return to Twitter – IBTimes