Following the news of the Paddy Power data breach http://www.paddypowerplc.com/media/news/paddy-power-advises-customers-historical-data-breach, Mark James and David Harley at ESET and Troy Gill at AppRiver comment on the importance of notifying customers as soon as possible and why customers shouldn’t panic:
You walk into a coffee shop and take a seat. While waiting for your coffee, you take out your smartphone and start playing a game you downloaded the other day. Later, you go to work and check your email in the elevator. Without you knowing, an attacker has just gained a foothold in your corporate network and is steadily infecting all your colleagues’ smartphones too.
In a new blog post from Ronnie Tokazowski, security researcher, PhishMe, a new phishing scam that employs a shortened Google URL and contains a malicious .zip file that leads to a variant of the Cryptowall ransomware, is discussed.
Following a recent IG investigation, it was confirmed that the CIA has been spying on Congress by hacking into Senate Intelligence Committee computers. As a result, Mark Udall who serves on the U.S Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has called for the resignation of CIA Director John Brennan.
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