Welcome to the Future!
What is being proposed? an international organization modeled after the International Committee of the Red Cross that would help in cyber emergencies
How would this work? provide assistance and relief to vulnerable citizens and enterprises affected by serious cyberattacks
Why? Its based on work by tech companies including:
What data was exposed? Tea Party Patriots campaign materials, call lists, guidelines for national student led pro-2nd amendment protests, including toolkits for protests
How was it exposed? Left unpassword protected on an Amazon S3 storage bucket
Who found it?UpGuard, a California-based “cyber resiliency” firm renowned for locating confidential records inadvertently exposed online
Gizmodo | Tea Party Group Leaks Call Lists, Guides for Staging Pro-Gun ‘Student-Led’ High School Protests
Which utility was hit with ransomware? Jacksonville, North Carolina-based Onslow Water and Sewer Authority
when was the ransomware triggered? middle of the night Saturday, “specifically targeted” the utility in the wake of Hurricane Florence
what was the impact of the ransomware?
Where: CipherTrace’s 2018 Q3 Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Report says 4.7% of funds moved through unregulated bitcoin exchanges is being cleaned
How can it be stopped?
Business Technology Media | Strong anti-money laundering laws hamper crypto-currency crime
A newly report titled “Email and Internet Voting: The Overlooked Threat to Election Security.” It’s a collaboration between the National Election Defense Coalition, the Association for Computing Machinery, R Street and Common Cause lists this as the best way to protect elections:
paper ballots
Politico | HIGH-TECH, LOW SECURITY
78% say more cyber security regulations drive more cyber investment in businesses
Beta News | Infosecurity North America | 77 percent of CISOs get conflicting advice on changing regulation
Both candidates set forth cybersecurity plans that will:
SEC Commissioner Kara M. Stein raises these policy issues for regulators:
California’s Internet of Things legislation, SB 327 (2018 | CA), requires consumer goods to:
How a state can legislatively protect its residents from data miners:
Also, what is a data miner? an entity or person that collects and sells personal information from consumers with whom the broker has no direct relationship
Electronic Fronteir Foundation | Vermont’s New Data Privacy Law