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Consumers think banks, retailers and mobile operators need to do more to protect them and their personal information from fraudsters, according to Callsign. Trust in these organizations is eroding fast because consumers say they are overwhelmed by scam messages from fraudsters spoofing brand names daily.
The potential for cloud technologies to break down silos and enable more contextualized views of data is having a dramatic impact on enterprise investment priorities for operations. When asked to identify investment priorities for operations over the next five years, organizations ranked cloud highest, followed by wireless connectivity and artificial intelligence and machine learning, according to a recent Future of Operations survey from IDC. At the same time many enterprises have yet to move their operational data from on-premises to the cloud.
Fredrick Brown, a former U.S. Army contractor, was sentenced today to 151 months in prison after admitting to his role in a conspiracy that targeted thousands of U.S. service members and veterans and caused millions of dollars in losses. Brown was one of five fraudsters charged with carrying out an identify-theft and fraud scheme that targeted "Service members and veterans, their dependents, and civilians employed by the Department of Defense," according to a 14-count indictment unsealed in August 2019.
Leveraging threat intelligence to tackle supply chain vulnerabilitiesIn this interview with Help Net Security, Brandon Hoffman, CISO at Intel 471, talks about the growing threat of supply chain attacks, the most common supply chain vulnerabilities and how the right threat intelligence can help stay on top of these threats. 3 ways any company can guard against insider threats this OctoberOctober is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but most business leaders and consumers don't need a special event to remember cybersecurity's preeminence in today's turbulent digital landscape.
Industry publication giant Sandhills Global has suffered a ransomware attack, causing hosted websites to become inaccessible and disrupting their business operations. Sandhills publishes various printed and hosted trade publications containing industry news and a marketplace for dealers to sell related new and used machinery.
Maintainers behind the Ruby programming language have revised the project's Code of Conduct on GitHub to remove tolerating opposing viewpoints as a prerequisite. On September 29th, in a pull request titled, "Remove abuse enabling language," software engineer Jake Herrington proposed that Ruby's Code of Conduct be revised to ensure everyone in the community feels safe.
Netflix has a new series called Squid Game, about people competing in a deadly game for money. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
A heartbreaking report by the Wall Street Journal about a ransomware attack leading to the death of a baby also illustrates how dangerous these attacks can be for health care. Lufkin ISD hit by ransomware attack The hack was discovered Saturday but according to Sheila Adams at Lufkin ISD the program they had in place to stop the attack worked because it shut down the system, that's how they knew of the attack.