Ransomware Strikes Again, SIM Swapping for Profit, and Social Science Breakthroughs with De-identified Datasets
InfoSec ICU
English - November 28, 2018 10:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Gerry and Steve celebrate their 1-year anniversary of InfosecICU. They discuss an Ohio medical center struck with ransomware and how attacking during a holiday weekend is more likely for bad guys. They discuss SIM swapping attacks against high net-value individuals. The finish with a discussion of social science research that looks at how much time […]
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Gerry and Steve celebrate their 1-year anniversary of InfosecICU. They discuss an Ohio medical center struck with ransomware and how attacking during a holiday weekend is more likely for bad guys. They discuss SIM swapping attacks against high net-value individuals. The finish with a discussion of social science research that looks at how much time politically polarized individuals spent together during Thanksgiving dinner and how this has larger ramifications on privacy.
Resources:
A holiday-break turns holiday break-in when hackers attack medical facilities with ransomware:
http://www.theintelligencer.net/news/top-headlines/2018/11/ovmc-eorh-computers-attacked-by-hackers/
Seems like a good time to warn your executives that they could be a target for SIM Swappers
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/78427/hacking/sim-swap-hacker.html
Researchers have been able to use cellphone tracking technology and public voting data to identify if partisan politics is reducing time spent at the holiday table:
https://www.wired.com/story/the-thanksgiving-effect-and-the-power-of-phone-data/
Battlefied 5
https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/battlefield/battlefield-5
Guerilla Mail
https://www.guerrillamail.com/
How to Measure Anything in CyberSecurity Risk
https://www.howtomeasureanything.com/cybersecurity/
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Gerry Auger (@Gerald_Auger)
Steven Cardinal (@sgcardinal)
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