When I was growing up in New Jersey, if someone hit you in the nose and took your lunch money, well, you didn’t eat lunch that day. In the cyber world the punches are bigger, the dollars are tremendous and you don’t eat lunch because once your intellectual and physical property is gone, so are the jobs and paychecks that IP created.
In the beginning of September, a group of computer hackers calling themselves AntiSec announced that they had stolen a file containing unique identification data for 12,367,232 Apple iOS devices. They claimed the database was stolen from the compromised laptop of an FBI agent. Simultaneous to AntiSec’s release, the FBI denied the claim. To substantiate their claim, AntiSec released one million of the unique identifiers minus the personal data embedded in the stolen file.
The new Office of Energy Infrastructure Security will provide leadership, expertise and assistance to the Commission to help identify solutions to potential cyber-risks.
A recent Ponemon institute survey reported that while the cost for data breaches is trending downward, this does not apply to stolen healthcare information.
Thirty-one percent of data breaches are caused by simple loss or theft, a new Forrester study reports, and another 27 percent of incidents are caused by unwitting misuse of data by an employee.
New research from Dell SecureWorks finds that cyber espionage firms, often originating in China, are targeting critical infrastructure organizations, such as oil companies, in many different countries.
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