Remote working is rapidly increasing in current pandemic situation but every remote connection creates a new access point that hackers can exploit. What can you do to fully minimize the risks?
Cyber Security
Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and even the occasional disgruntled employee are constantly looking to gain unauthorized access for a variety of purposes: theft of money, cyber espionage, personal information for sale or for use in scams, and damage to critical infrastructure for just a few of the most common.
So how does an organization mitigate an entire world full of continual cyber attacks? Just as buildings have a number of necessary elements of physical security: access control, cameras, alarms and so on; there are similar key elements of cyber security that are absolutely vital for just about any modern business.
It starts with identifying and closing the most common doors that attackers use. For example, phishing attacks on employees are far and away the most common initial point of entry. The breach of even a low-level employee account can quickly turn into an escalation in access privileges and the ability to reach sensitive information. This is also true of smart devices, which are generally more poorly secured than computers and phones.
Citizen Lab reports that the new Pegasus spyware zero-click zero-day impacts the most recent version of iOS (16.6) and likely prior versions dating back to the iPhone 8. As with the prior Pegasus attack vector, victims only need to receive a iMessage to be compromised; they do not need to open the message or interact with it.
NSA primarily conducts intelligence gathering and hacking against foreign adversaries. It does raise questions about to what degree the government is now planning to embrace Mythos AI in cyber operations and would appear to be a powerful confirmation of the system's cyber capabilities.
Iranian hackers impersonated Munich Security Conference and Think 20 Summit organizers to target high ranking diplomats and government officials for intelligence collection.
Europol has taken down a popular crypto mixer during the “Olympia” law enforcement operation, seizing three servers, 12 terabytes of data, and $29 million in cryptocurrency.
A massive data breach of video streaming service Twitch has exposed just about everything possible that could be taken. The 125 GB torrent has been confirmed by Twitch and is only the "first part" according to hackers.
Canadian power utilities Emera and Nova Scotia have suffered cyber attacks that forced the companies to shut down some business application servers.
Costco sent a data breach notification to its customers after discovering a credit card skimmer at one of its stores. Several customers complained of unauthorized transactions.
Legacy applications are a common unknown for enterprises and represent an attack surface of customer data endpoints which could put their data at risk. Do you know how to find them to prevent data breaches?
Pizza Hut Australia has sent data breach notifications to 193,000 customers after a third party accessed a database containing personal and transactional information.










