The following is the executive summary paragraph to the weekly Intelligence Summary report Verizon Business Cybertrust Security’s Risk Team provides. The purpose is to capture in one paragraph the most risk-significant events, over the past week, from an enterprise perspective.
The most risk-significant event this week was Oracle’s quarterly release of a Critical Patch Update, but none of the vulnerabilities are the target of known attacks. Data breaches dominate the rest of the week’s events with news of medical records off-shored for transcription being sold on India’s information black-market. A NASA scientist was arrested for trying to sell classified information. A former Ford employee was arrested for copying 4,000 proprietary files to an external drive prior to leaving Ford to work for BIAC, the fifth largest automaker in the People’s Republic of China. Point of sale devices were suborned at McDonalds locations in Australia. A security team in Europe reported 1,045 incidents of a compromised ATM “trapping” cards for later criminal use and a payment processor in Belgium reported a breach and at least 1,000 victims with financial losses.
