Did you Have Anthem Health Insurance? Did you shop at Home Depot? Kmart? Or all the other retailers that were hacked? Did you work on a government project? Then you were affected by the Chinese espionage hack of the OPM (Office Personnel Management) So the “Hackers” have my personal info, … Read more
Do I really need to list the last year’s events? Sony was a class on its own Hacked and data exfiltrated, and then deleted, who did it does not really matter. HomeDepot and Target started with a breakdown (HomeDepot and Target malware) and escalated to millions of CC# breaches. Anthem was a failure http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/02/anthem-breach-may-have-started-in-april-2014/ and Deep Panda … Read more
That is the message companies have according to the Christian Science Monitor survey “Conventional wisdom” and results of the survey are at odds, there is an overall thinking that all companies are now paying attention to cybersecurity or information Security now that Anthem was hacked and the Sony hack occured. But the opposite is … Read more
We know the problems with the Anthem Breach: no encryption But does it mean you should encrypt your data? What does it mean to “encrypt the data” What if your data is “stolen” with correct credentials, i.e. if someone has the username and password then it is over, whether the data is encrypted matters … Read more
Is there something fundamentally wrong with our thinking? Anthem is only the latest victim of the multiple victims last year. Over 1 Billion records were breached or stolen in 2014 and human error or accidents are the cause 25% of the time (Network World story). “Mega breaches are the defining trend, exposing tens of millions … Read more
