Just a thought.

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Rogue...

Capital One is dealing with one of the most important data breaches of the year.

The incident involved theft of more than 100 million customer records, stolen by a single, experienced engineer, according to court filings in Seattle.

The details set it apart from breaches of companies which were attacked from the outside by criminals and different from the spate of ransomware attacks by groups of individuals outside the U.S.

Paige Thompson was able to exploit a flaw in an application firewall stored on an Amazon Web Services cloud server to gain access to the information.

An Amazon spokesperson confirmed Thompson had worked for Amazon but she left in 2016. The breach took place between March and July this year.

The incident is still unraveling and will bring up major issues facing the biggest tech companies, cloud firms and banks, namely how to control who has access to sensitive consumer data and detect insiders who may go rogue.

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Katz...

The New York City Board of Elections declared Monday that Queens Borough President Melinda Katz narrowly topped her challenger, Tiffany Cabán, in the Democratic primary to become the county’s next district attorney by a margin of just 60 votes.

But the fight for the party’s nomination will continue in Queens Supreme Court, where public defender Cabán plans to argue the BOE improperly excluded hundreds of ballots that could once again tip the scales in her favor.