Last week’s hack of Amazon-owned Twitch saw a large amount of source code being stolen unnoticed. How can a company with, you would imagine, pretty insane levels of security in place courtesy of its parent, have left itself so vulnerable … and only find out about the breach on 4chan? There are also concerns that email addresses and passwords are the next items of stolen data to appear on the platform, at which point the hackers sharks will start to circle.
The nature of this attack appears to represent a shift from ransom demands to extortion, which is a worrying development, and, once breached, any organisation that has lost control of its data can no longer rely on the established methods of recovery, which for those without adequate security operations and incident response planning must be terrifying – just waiting helplessly to be hacked – especially as even those who are conscientious remain vulnerable.
Source: TechCrunch
Informed Sauce is hosting an Infinidat-sponsored event in London on 2 December about protecting businesses from cyber crime.
Short talks from the Metropolitan Police, a military-trained cyber threat expert and sponsor Infinidat’s EMEA Field CTO will be followed by a panel-led, room-wide moderated discussion, with plenty of opportunities for you to contribute your thoughts and ask questions.
Visit the event microsite for more details and to sign up.