Amanda M Rossetti

Major Bank Loses 12 Million Customers’ Data in the Most Embarrassing Way Possible

May 5, 2018 by Amanda M Rossetti Leave a Comment

In a case of too stupid not to share Commonwealth Bank lost 12 million customers’ data including their financial histories from 2004 to 2014 but this wasn’t your normal breach. The magnetic tape backups just went missing. They hired a company to destroy the backups and no one has any idea what happened after they left the storage facility. They hired KPMG to help track them down after police were unable to find anything who, after a lengthy search, concluded that the tapes were most likely destroyed. This just highlights the fact that physical security and chain of custody is really important.

https://gizmodo.com/major-bank-loses-12-million-customers-data-in-the-most-1825711247

The flu is poking holes in hospital cybersecurity, and a shot can’t save you

February 17, 2018 by Amanda M Rossetti 1 Comment

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/getting-flu-could-harm-cybersecurity-healh/

I never considered that that a health crisis could also cause cyber security issues but this article makes a good point about why it occurs. With anything that causes the volume of what a user is asked to do to increase, that user is going to find ways to save time. Unfortunately what the user tends to do to save time is ignore protocols put in place to protect information. As hospital personnel are seeing many more patients than usual this flu season they are doing things like leaving themselves logged into terminals and leaving doors open that require a badge to enter. This is opening hospitals up to cyber attacks and putting patient’s information at risk.