Oil company Allied-Horizontal Wireline Services (AHWS) are reported to have misconfigured a storage device, which has resulted in the leak of the locations where it stores the explosives it uses.
“Insider threat” — it’s a term that gets thrown around a lot in cybersecurity circles. Practitioners want to know who is responsible for attacks and how attacks are being perpetrated so defenses can be appropriately implemented and provisioned.
The U.S. Navy is requesting that a vendor in charge of personnel records pay up for credit monitoring services after its computers were breached and SSNs of 130K sailors was compromised.
Over the past few years the security industry has seen a rise in the number of appointed CISOs. At companies where previously the security team was small, secluded, and likely managed by the CIO, it is refreshing that mention of a CISO is no longer followed by puzzled looks or blank stares.
It's not that organized cybergangs are raking it in. It's more that a larger number of small operators are benefitting from automated services that can earn them an average of $2,000 a month, according to a new report .
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