1. LOT Polish
Airlines cancelled 10 flights and delayed 12 others last Sunday, saying its
ground computer systems had been attacked. The attack kept the airline from
creating flight plans for outbound planes, effectively grounding around 1,400
passengers at Warsaw Chopin Airport. Concerns about airline safety and
cybersecurity continue to arise. Earlier this year, the FBI contended that
cybersecurity researcher Chris Roberts caused an airplane's engine to climb
after hacking its software. Roberts wasn't charged, but United Airlines banned
him from its flights.
2.
Financial services
firms are hit by security incidents a staggering 300 percent more frequently
than businesses in other industries, with attack patterns changing frequently
to outfox banking security measures, according to '2015 Industry Drill Down
Report'.
3.
The report went on
to say that due to the tremendous value at stake from compromising hosts in
financial services, criminals spend a tremendous amount of time on the
reconnaissance, profiling victims and crafting lure emails. Researchers noted
that most of the attacks had some data and credential-stealing elements.
Financial services ranks third for targeted Typosquatting.
4.
The report concludes
by saying that Business Reasons and a meager sense of false security provided
by Cybersecurity Insurance - may be hindering logical security precautions
& real security adoption in Financial Services.
5.
Adobe Flash player
zero-day abused in the Wild (CVE-2015-3113). Websense customers are protected
against this threat via real-time analytics within ACE. Adobe has now issued an
emergency fix for this critical security flaw.
6.
After the OPM Hack,
which lead to millions of federal employees personnel records being stolen, the
OPM informed employees of a credit and identity protection plan for them. These
notices were quickly duplicated by a hacker and used to send phishing e-mails.
It's now understood that the personal data of 18 million current, former, and
prospective federal employees was stolen in the attack.
7.
Times of India
reported on Thursday:
