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GCA, Mastercard partner on free cybersecurity toolkit for small business (Video)

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Teri Robinson Executive Editor

March 15, 2019

Small businesses, which make up 99 percent of businesses globally and, on average, 70 percent, grapple with some of the same major cybersecurity challenges as large enterprises, only without the same resources. The Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) and Mastercard have teamed on a free Cybersecurity Toolkit aimed at helping smaller and medium-sized businesses. GCA President…

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Are employees the weakest (cybersecurity) link? Sometimes

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Karen Epper Hoffman

March 4, 2019

The weakest link in cybersecurity, it’s often said, is the occupant of the space between the chair and keyboard. Indeed, with phishing attacks not only still seeing widespread success but actually on the uptick, employees are arguably a bigger security weakness than any type of technological vulnerability. On the flip side, an enterprise’s people can…

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Inside actor sends false email claiming WPML plugin security flaws

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Doug Olenick Online Editor

January 23, 2019

The company behind the WPML Word Press plugin was forced to explain to its customers that a former employee had sent an erroneous email that stated the plugin had security issues. Word Press developer OnTheGoSystems defended itself in a statement and on Twitter explaining there is nothing wrong with the plugin and that the email…

Tesla cars’ weak password protocol could allow remote unlock

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Tesla insider: Saboteur or whistleblower?

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Teri Robinson Executive Editor

June 21, 2018

Martin Tripp said he was trying to expose safety concerns and other issues at Tesla and denied modifying code.

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Tesla saboteur trains spotlight on insider threats

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Teri Robinson Executive Editor

June 20, 2018

Organizations know insider threats pose real danger and challenges but often give them low priority.

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Tesla hit by insider saboteur who changed code, exfiltrated data

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Teri Robinson Executive Editor

June 19, 2018

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,”…

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Ex-Sun Trust employee helps compromise 1.5 million bank clients

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Doug Olenick Online Editor

April 20, 2018

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.

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Chelsea Manning accuser Lamo dies in Kansas

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Teri Robinson Executive Editor

March 20, 2018

In June 2010, Wired published chat logs between former hacker Lamo and Manning, in which Manning allegedly confessed to being the leaker.

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Michael Moore launches ‘TrumpiLeaks’ whistleblower site

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Teri Robinson Executive Editor

June 6, 2017

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.

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400K patient records lost in January health care breaches

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Doug Olenick Online Editor

February 21, 2017

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.

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GCA, Mastercard partner on free cybersecurity toolkit for small business (Video)

Are employees the weakest (cybersecurity) link? Sometimes

Inside actor sends false email claiming WPML plugin security flaws

Tesla insider: Saboteur or whistleblower?

Tesla saboteur trains spotlight on insider threats

Tesla hit by insider saboteur who changed code, exfiltrated data

Ex-Sun Trust employee helps compromise 1.5 million bank clients

Chelsea Manning accuser Lamo dies in Kansas

Michael Moore launches ‘TrumpiLeaks’ whistleblower site

400K patient records lost in January health care breaches

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