Of the three categories of insider threat; theft, fraud and sabotage, fraud is often the most complex, inventive and difficult to detect. This case however, has a certain simplicity to it. The case concerns a Mr Kabbaj who worked for an “unnamed global internet...
LISA FORTE INTERVIEW WITH DIGIT MAGAZINE Lisa Forte, partner and cyber threat specialist at Red Goat Cyber, shares her insights about the ‘insider threat’ and how to protect against it. How has the insider threat evolved in recent years? Firstly, we now live in a...
What happened? Ring, the Amazon owned home-security company, has admitted firing four employees who accessed users’ videos. The employees had access to the video feeds but exceeded their authorised access by viewing them. This has undoubtedly caused embarrassment for...
Friday the 13th is a day that has been long associated with bad omens. This became a reality for almost 30,000 Facebook staff though on Friday 13th December. Almost 30,000 employee payroll records were stolen. The theft left information security professionals...
The Tokyo based cyber security company Trend Micro has revealed it has been the victim of a sophisticated insider threat attack. Customer records were accessed and exfiltrated by an employee then used by attackers in a vishing attack on Trend Micro customers....
