It all started in May when a Swiss security firm discovered that more than two dozen “HP laptop models were recording users’ keystrokes.” The keylogging software was in the PC’s audio driver existing since at least 2015. HP laptops with keyloggers Magdalena Petrovaįor HP, 2017 was the year of the keylogger. Wired noted in a follow-up report that most of the personal data exposed in the flaw could also be accessed from public records. Even if it had, the risk might have been minimal. The misconfigured server was discovered by a security analyst, and presumably the data never fell into malicious hands. Not only do they have to be patched to keep the bad guys out, but you also have to be careful of misconfigurations that expose private data.Ī data firm called Deep Root Analytics found that out in June when one of its Amazon S3 servers was misconfigured and exposed the personal information for 198 million voters, according to Wired.
In fact, it was a record-breaking hack twice over in 2016, but even that wasn’t the end of the saga. Before Yahoo was absorbed into Verizon the Internet giant endured a massive hack exposing usernames and passwords. Yahoo’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. As for HBO, now it understands that when it comes to computer security you win or you leak. law enforcement charged an Iranian hacker with the data theft. Among the stolen cache were management emails, upcoming episodes for popular HBO shows, and draft scripts of one Game of Thrones episode that had not yet been aired.
HBO found that out the hard way in July when hackers claimed to have purloined 1.5 terabytes of data from the pay TV channel. It’s not easy being a fount of popular TV shows-especially when everyone wants to know what you have planned. hacking secrets home in the first place plead guilty to taking classified documents, and Kaspersky sued the Department of Homeland Security over blacklisting its products. As a result of the reports, and bans of Kaspersky products by the government, Kaspersky’s Washington DC office shut down in December, the contractor who brought U.S. To help allay fears, Kaspersky announced it would allow third-parties to audit its code-a measure that some experts argue doesn’t go far enough. Kaspersky vigorously denied the claims and said the contractor caused the leak by running Kasperksy on a home machine that contained weaponized malware. The rules had not yet come into effect when they were dumped, but they would have required opt-in permission from broadband customers before ISPs could use their personal information and browsing habits for marketing or analytics purposes. In late March, Congress decided to remove the privacy rules passed by the Federal Communications Commission in 2016. Despite the devastating hack Equifax still won an anti-fraud contract from the Internal Revenue Service, though it was later suspended.
A failure to install current security patches on its network opened the door to the attack, the company said. The hackers struck in the spring, seizing 143 million Social Security numbers-that’s more than half of the U.S. Equifax is one of the three major consumer credit reporting agencies in the United States. “Jaw-dropping” does not begin to describe the Equifax breach, which came to light in September. Symantec Norton Security Deluxe 2017 3.Then in April the Shadow Brokers-an anonymous group of hackers that first came to notoriety in 2016-released a trove of attack tools linked to the National Security Agency.īoth releases would have significant impacts on computer device security.
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