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The gravest attacks -- and most common -- perpetrated against agency networks involved nation states, according to an audit that happened to be released amid accusations the Russian government allegedly hacked the Democratic National Committee.
Ars
Technica June 20,
2016
TalkTalk
chief Dido Harding has been paid £2.8 million by the budget telco in the past
year during a period that included the high profile hack attack on its systems,
which put a serious dent in the company's profits and reputation. Ex-jockey
Harding vowed in TalkTalk's annual report—published on Monday morning—to donate
her £220,000 annual bonus to charity. It comes on the same day that MPs called
for company bosses to take more responsibility for security gaffes. MPs and
peers sitting on the culture, media, and sport committee have recommended that
"a portion of CEO compensation should be linked to effective cyber
security"—which, put another way, means that bonuses, and other salary
incentives could be held back if a boss fails to act "before a crisis
strikes." Harding, whose base pay for the year ended March 31, 2016 was
£550,000, raked in almost £2 million on top of that figure in relation to
performance targets covering a three-year period prior to TalkTalk's cyber
attack.
Krebs on
Security
June 20, 2016
GoToMyPC, a
service that helps people access and control their computers remotely over the
Internet, is forcing all users to change their passwords, citing a spike in
attacks that target people who re-use passwords across multiple sites. Owned by
Santa Clara, Calif. based networking giant Citrix, GoToMyPC is a popular
software-as-a-service product that lets users access and control their PC or
Mac from anywhere in the world. On June 19, the company posted a status update
and began notifying users that a system-wide password update was underway.
“Unfortunately, the GoToMYPC service has been targeted by a very sophisticated
password attack,” reads the notice posted to status.gotomypc.com. “To protect
you, the security team recommended that we reset all customer passwords
immediately. Effective immediately, you will be required to reset your GoToMYPC
password before you can login again. To reset your password please use your
regular GoToMYPC login link.” John Bennett, product line director at Citrix,
said once the company learned about the attack it took immediate action. But
contrary to previous published reports, there is no indication Citrix or its
platforms have been compromised, he said.
FedScoop
June 23,
2016
An
international body, operating via consensus and staffed by a globally diverse
team of technical experts from governments and the private sector, should be
set up to establish peer-reviewed technical attribution for major cyberattacks,
Microsoft recommends in a policy paper out Thursday. The paper, "From
Articulation to Implementation: Enabling Progress on Cyber Norms,"
suggests that the International Atomic Energy Agency might be the model for
such a body. "The IAEA is renowned for its technical expertise, its board
of governors and other organizational elements are made up representatives from
around the world," and its inspectors carry out their work of verifying
compliance with the global nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, based upon
well-established consensual criteria, the report notes.
The Hill
June 24,
2016
New research is
raising serious questions about the cybersecurity practices of hospitals. The
study, conducted by Ross Koppel of the Univerisity of Pennsylvania, found that
sticky notes with passwords were prevalent in hospitals; that employees shared
passwords; that keypad-protected doors to medical supply rooms often had
passwords written on them; and that clinicians left computers logged on as a
courtesy to whoever needed to use them next
The Hill
June 24,
2016
A federal court ruled
that the FBI did not need a warrant to hack a suspect’s computer during a
massive child pornography sting, outraging privacy advocates and opposing
rulings in similar cases across the country.
The
Christian Science Monitor
June 24,
2016
Retailers
nationwide are in midst of rolling out payment terminals intended for cards
embedded with smart chips, which are supposed to better protect consumers
against financial fraud than cards with magnetic strips. However, shoppers
still aren’t adequately protected from hackers and identity thieves, The Home
Depot and Walmart have claimed in separate lawsuits against MasterCard and
Visa. "Visa and MasterCard have pushed consumers to use payment card
technology that Visa and MasterCard know is defective and subject to fraud and
have colluded with each other and with the banks that issue debit and credit
cards to do so," states the suit from The Home Depot filed last week in
Atlanta federal court. Walmart filed suit against Visa last month.
Naval
Academy grads spread cyber awareness servicewide
Gov Info
Security
June 23,
2016
The U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission has obtained an emergency court order to freeze the
assets of a British citizen who it has accused of hacking into brokerage
accounts in the United States and abroad to manipulate and fraudulently profit
from stock price fluctuations that he engineered. On June 22, the SEC filed a
complaint in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York,
alleging that Idris Dayo Mustapha "hacked into numerous accounts of U.S.
customers of broker-dealers in and outside the U.S."
Nextgov
June 20,
2016
Since the massive
Office of Personnel Management hack was revealed last summer, the White House
has exhorted and encouraged agencies to tighten their cybersecurity defenses.
But lawmakers want to know if the administration has also considered a tougher
approach -- using its budget authority to enforce cybersecurity standards.
Federal
News Radio
June 23,
2016
The Obama
administration is still struggling on how it would respond to a cyber attack on
U.S. water systems, financial structure or electrical grid. Defense Department
Acting Assistant Secretary for Homeland Defense and Global Security Thomas
Atkin was unable to provide specifics to the House Armed Services Committee
this week on when exactly DoD would get involved if there was a cyber attack to
critical U.S. infrastructure. 
