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While I continue to catch up, we’ll be here to try and do our best. Thanks for your patience.
The news for February 28th was quite interesting as it talks about a few items which we’ve been posting blog posts on.
With that said, here we go!
Top of the news
I don’t understand how someone could get away with putting a mining operation within a school or any other place for that matter. With the way crypto is generated, it takes a lot more energy now, more than we can possibly pay for. This is something quite interesting.
Lastpass has had it rough. As I stated when this broke, I can’t necessarily fault lastpass directly as a company. Talk about sophistocated, this attack set that they have to deal with and had to deal with was quite challenging.
Security Incident Update and Recommended Actions was sent to TSB’s list on March the first and I intend to break this down for a tech podcast. I just haven’t had time.
Lastpass understood that the biggest issue wasn’t the set of breaches, but the lack of transparency! Even one of my followers on Twitter said that and I completely understand this. With that said, I don’t believe they really fully understood the issues that they had to deal with. It isn’t like they could say that there was one issue, they mitigated it and we’re good. There were multiple issues! I changed my itterations for my account, and at least for now, I’m not going anywhere. There’s way too much data that could be lost, and what’s to say that another password manager can’t be targeted the same way?
Coverage of Lastpass
- We have more info on Lastpass … news is worse
- U.S. notifications and the Lastpass breach
- Lastpass is not the only one target, Norton Life Lock is now the next victim
- What do I think about the latest news regarding lastpass?
- We’ve got an update on the Lastpass Hack of August, it may not be good unless you took the recommended and best practice steps
This may not be necessarily all of them but the more current ones. I could post them all, but that’s not the purpose of this post. You can search lastpass and find these and others that I didn’t put out for you to peruse. Its a difficult situation.
The rest of the news
- CISA Director: “We Need Security Designed in From the Beginning, Right Out of the Box”
- US Marshals Service Breach Exposed Sensitive Data
- Telus Investigating Reports of Leaked Data
- Dish Network Customer Service and Website Outage
- Fixes Available for Vulnerabilities in WordPress Houzez Theme and Plugin
- NewsCorp: Hackers Were in Our Network for Two Years
- Three Arrested in Netherlands in Connection with Data Theft Scheme
- Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner Fines Centric Healthcare Over Actions Taken in Wake of Ransomware Attack
Oh boy. Dish Network in the rest of the news. They indicate its not at the top of the news because its not ATT or Verizon. But it shouldn’t matter who is attacked, its all big. Have we even gotten an update that services are back to normal or something? I haven’t seen anything since the updated post indicating that it was a ransomware attack.
Coverage
Besides those two blog posts leading to articles, I’ve seen nothing since.
The good news is that we have more arrests, but that hasn’t stopped the attacks that we’re seeing. It seems to fuel them. Not sure what the solution is.
News Corp being infiltrated for two years before anything was ever done. Maybe its better I work alone, outside of an environment that I can’t control. When I hear of a problem, I can just go and figure out what’s wrong. This is beyond repair now, and I don’t know if we have a good solution to this.
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