Bite Sized Cyber Crime

The 2017 Equifax Data Breach

Of all the companies we want to stay secure, a credit bureau is one of the top. They store our most sensitive information that can be used to steal our identities. However, not all of them are as safe as we'd hope, and Equifax taught us this horrifying truth.
 
Sources: https://pastebin.com/FyVt2jsA

Florida Man Hacked Water Supplier in Attempted Poisoning

Last week we discussed a recent attack on a water supply company in the UK, and this week I take us back to last year where poisoning the water supply became more than just an extortion threat...
 
Sources: https://pastebin.com/yi1K8w27

Ransomware Gang Extorts Wrong Water Company

One of the biggest water companies in the UK is hacked and extorted by a ransomware gang, but it turns out some mistakes may have been made in extorting the correct victim...
 
Sources: https://pastebin.com/vjVXJEaY

Cisco Hacked through Employee’s Personal Google Account

Cisco is a networking giant who should have secure networks. Well, in cyber security you are only as strong as your weakest link and for Cisco and most others, that link is the human.
 
Sources: https://pastebin.com/5Lzwhddb

PrestaShop Vulnerability Leads to Fake Checkout Pages

PrestaShop is a great open source tool for e-commerce sites, and is behind the websites of many shop owners. However an SQL injection that leads to remote code execution allows threats the ability to modify shops for the worse.
 
Sources: https://pastebin.com/HTV5b6TS

Advocate Health Data Breach

I used to be a health care student, who would've thought? I found some dirt on my old place of clinicals and figured I'd share and talk about security in healthcare.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/4eHUbBcG

Maui: The Ransomware That Picks Files to Encrypt with Surgical Precision

Most ransomware encrypts your entire device and leaves a ransom note for you to pay up. But this new ransomware is sneakier and allows hackers more control and gives you more room for error.
 
Sources: https://pastebin.com/QX8D1gEa

When Smart Devices Attack: The Dyn DDoS

A DDoS is usually performed with malware infected computers called zombies, but as smart devices and the Internet of Things rises in popularity, a new insecure tech can be exploited to perform these attacks that can't be predicted or prepared for.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/9qbkAVHy