To start, an unauthorized user is someone who doesn't have permission to access a computer or a system. Unauthorized access is bypassing security policies and controls to said computer or system. Here are a few ways this happens: In Verizon's 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report, the FBI's 2020 Internet Crime Report, and EUROPOL's Internet Organized [...]
A lot has happened in the past ten years for cyber intrusions and data breaches. We want to round out the end of the decade with our top 3 cyber intrusions. Stuxnet: 2010 Stuxnet was discovered around June 2010 by Belarusian antivirus company VirusBlokAda. U.S. based antivirus company Symantec was the first to reverse engineer [...]
Equifax is expected to pay up to $700 million in their 2017 breach that affected roughly 150 million people, per the Federal Trade Commission(FTC). That equates to roughly $5.00 per person, the equivalent of a cup of coffee from Starbucks, if they pay the full $700 million. Personally, we don't think this goes far enough, [...]
