Tesla saboteur trains spotlight on insider threats
Organizations know insider threats pose real danger and challenges but often give them low priority.
Insider Threat
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,”…
Supermarket retailer CISO identifies millennials, sales and marketing pros as riskiest employees
Supermarket giant Ahold Delhaize has determined that the employees who engage in the riskiest cyber behavior tend to be sales and marketing professionals, high-level executives and millennials, according to the company’s global CISO Carolyn Schreiber.
Coca-Cola hit with insider breach, 8,000 affected
The Coca-Cola Company announced a data breach today possibly affecting about 8,000 workers due to a former employee having in their possession an external hard drive containing employee personal data. Bleeping Computer is reporting that Coca-Cola was told by law enforcement officials in September 2017 that a former staffer of a company subsidiary had been…
Chase initiative to identify insider threats devolved into spying operation
Run by Peter Cavicchia III, a former Secret Service agent, the Chase program collected data on employees, including browser histories, transcripts of phone calls, emails and GPS locations from company smartphones.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife says insider exposed employee and vendor records
California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife has reportedly issued an internal memo warning that a former employee downloaded worker and vendor records to a personal device without authorization, and stored them on an insecure network.
Top 10 Security Challenges for 2017
The first half of 2017 has not exactly been a ride in the park for cybersecurity professionals.
Sweden transport agency slips up, leaks top secret data
The leak exposed classified databases, including those on fighter pilots, police suspects and witness relocation subjects, but the Swedish government kept it mostly under wraps.
Raspberry PI attack compromises networks, steals admin credentials
Kaspersky Lab researchers developed a proof of concept attack that encourages IT pros to think twice about how insider threats can compromise networks. While other attacks can be carried out which exploit physical access to devices, researchers noted this attack is special because it can be carried out by anyone who has physical access to…
CIOs believe mainframe secure, but still worry over insider threats
CIO’s consider a main frame computer the safest place to store their corporation’s most important data, but despite this level of trust more than three-quarters believe say there are still weaknesses that can be exploited.
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