Tesla insider: Saboteur or whistleblower?
Martin Tripp said he was trying to expose safety concerns and other issues at Tesla and denied modifying code.
Insider Threats
Tesla saboteur trains spotlight on insider threats
Organizations know insider threats pose real danger and challenges but often give them low priority.
Tesla hit by insider saboteur who changed code, exfiltrated data
Tesla has routed out a saboteur who changed code on internal products and exfiltrated data to outsiders, damaging company operations and possibly causing a fire, CEO Elon Musk told employees in an email. “I was dismayed to learn this weekend about a Tesla employee who had conducted quite extensive and damaging sabotage to our operations,”…
Ex-Sun Trust employee helps compromise 1.5 million bank clients
Sun Trust Bank today confirmed it was hit with an insider attack when a former employee, working with a third party, stole company contact lists possibly exposing the personal information of up to 1.5 million customers.
Chelsea Manning accuser Lamo dies in Kansas
In June 2010, Wired published chat logs between former hacker Lamo and Manning, in which Manning allegedly confessed to being the leaker.
Michael Moore launches ‘TrumpiLeaks’ whistleblower site
While noting that “no form of digital communication is 100 percent secure,” Moore said the tools used on the site “provide the most secure technology possible to protect” a whistleblower’s anonymity.
400K patient records lost in January health care breaches
Insider threats dominated Protenus’ Health Care Breach Barometer with just over half of the compromised patient records that were lost in January being the result of either malicious or unintentional action by an insider.
CIOs fear losing cyber fight against sophisticated hackers, lax users
A survey of 400 CIOs of large organisations in the US, UK and Germany finds majority fear they’re fighting a losing battle, says company promoting micro-virtualisation as a new approach to security.
Obama commutes Chelsea Manning’s sentence
A long campaign to move President Obama to commute whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s sentence for passing classified documents to WikiLeaks has reached its desired conclusion.
Everyone is worried about internal cybersecurity threats, report
There are few things everyone can agree upon, but according to a new study almost all security professionals are concerned about insider threats.
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