1.
A diesel whodunit: How software let VW cheat on emissions. According to the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Volkswagen was able to cheat emission tests for half a
million of its U.S.-sold cars. Diesel cars from Volkswagen and Audi cheated on
clean air rules by including software, likely a single line of code that made
the vehicles' emissions look cleaner than they actually were. This resulted in
VW cars meeting emissions standards in the Lab or testing station but during
normal operation on roads- emit 40 times more Nitrogen oxides.
2.
Morgan Stanley employee pleads guilty
in data breach case.
A Morgan Stanley employee who was fired in connection with a data breach at the
company, pleaded guilty last week to downloading hundreds of thousands of
confidential customer account data. Names, addresses, account numbers, and
investment information are among the sensitive data of the 730,000 accounts
(10% of the Wealth division clients) taken by him, according to the
prosecution. They also claim that he was speaking to other companies about a
possible new job when the data was taken; sentencing is scheduled for December.
3.
Uber hacked again. "@Uber I had a great ride in China this morning! Except, weird, I wasn't
in China this morning. A number of Twitter users worldwide are complaining
that their Uber accounts have been hacked and are being used to secure rides in
China without their consent or knowledge. After an account has been hacked, you
can eventually find them for sale in the Dark Web. Identities can be purchased
for as little as $1, as well as compromised eBay, PayPal, Facebook, Netflix,
Amazon and Uber accounts.
4.
The OPM breach deepens: 5.6 million
federal employees' fingerprints stolen. It took weeks before the Office of Personnel Management
(OPM) admitted that almost 22-million federal employee personnel and security
records had been cracked in two separate attacks. Months later, the OPM and
Department of Defense (DoD) confessed that of the 21.5 million individuals
whose Social Security Numbers and other sensitive information were impacted by
the breach, the subset of individuals whose fingerprints have been stolen has
increased from a total of approximately 1.1 million to approximately 5.6
million.
5.
Russia's plan to crack TOR crumbles. The Russian Govt was willing to pay
3.9 million rubles ($59,000) to anyone able to crack Tor, a popular tool for
communicating anonymously over the Internet. Now the company that won the
government contract expects to spend more than twice that amount to abandon the
project. As discussed in Issue - 27 of
this blog, TOR (The Onion Router) is a browser that delivers untraceable
access to the Internet by linking all the computers onto a network and is
mostly being used for unscrupulous and illegal activities.
6.
Security spending will reach $75.4b
worldwide: Gartner.
Worldwide security spending will reach $75.4 billion this year, a 4.7 percent
increase over last year, according to the latest forecast from technology
research firm Gartner. "Interest in security technologies is increasingly
driven by elements of digital business, particularly cloud, mobile computing,
and now also the Internet of Things, as well as by the sophisticated and high-impact nature of advanced targeted
attacks."
7.
Cybersecurity firm offers $1 million
for Apple hack. A
Computer security firm last week, offered a $1 million bounty to hackers who
can find a way to breach Apple's latest iOS 9 mobile operating system. To win
the money, hackers must use a web page or text message to remotely bypass the
iOS 9 security and discretely install an application on the iPhone or iPad by
October 31, the company said in an online statement.
8.
Healthcare Organizations twice as likely
to experience data theft than other Industries. Last week, Raytheon|Websense
announced the publication of 2015 Industry Drill-Down Report – Healthcare. In
it, Websense explains why healthcare has experienced a surge in attacks in
recent years: The rapid digitization of the healthcare industry, when combined
with the value of the data at hand, has led to a massive increase in the number
of targeted attacks against the sector. While the finance and retail sectors
have long honed their cyber defenses, research illustrates that healthcare
organizations must quickly advance their security posture to meet the challenges
inherent in the digital economy – before it becomes the primary source of
stolen personal information.
9.
Cyber security very important for Digital
India: The Digital
India program envisions the creation of a digitally empowered economy, e-governance
and services on demand to improve access of information as well as resources
for citizens. The Aadhar (UID) initiative now stores biometric data of over 730
million citizens. India currently has 319 million internet users, 213 million
mobile internet users, 41% of e-commerce sales happen on the mobile, it is
anticipated that majority of the Digital India users will also be using
mobiles. Now consider these statistics in the light of a recent report that
discussed how Android phones can be hacked with a single text message. Any
security breach will raise major concerns about privacy and security of
confidential data.
10. Apple on Thursday shared a list of the top 25 iOS apps infected with
malware as a result
of Xcode Ghost. As previously noted most of the titles are from China-based developers
since that's where programmers installed a modified version of Apple's Xcode
IDE in lieu of the official version. Apple has pointed out that WeChat topped the
list of 25 apps - which contains games, utilities and other software including
an Angry Birds 2 clone. The Infected
apps:
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