A new episode of the SurfWatch Cyber Risk Roundup has been posted, Episode 77: DNC Fallout Continues, LastPass Exploit Discovered and Bitcoin is Not Real Money:
The fallout from the breach at the Democratic National Committee continued as WikiLeaks published more information and Julian Assange vowed that there was more to come. UK Telecom O2 became the latest company to be victimized by batches of previously exposed credentials. Shapeways, Kimpton Hotels, and Korean online store Interpark all made headlines for data breaches. Cybercrime advisories included researcher Tavis Ormandy warning of flaws in password manager LastPass, NIST advising organizations to move beyond SMS-based two-factor authentication, a flaw in Amazon’s Silk web browser, the KeySniffer flaw affecting wireless keyboards, and news of the Chthonic banking Trojan. On the legal front a Miami judge ruled that bitcoin is not real money, Target shareholders’ derivative lawsuit was dismissed, the University of Mississippi Medical Center was hit with a $2.7 million HIPAA settlement, a breach led to a Minnesota county paying a $1 million settlement, and a former Citibank employee was sentenced to prison. Finally, one internet star asked his followers to hand over their passwords, and they did.
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