Breacher Report

• The Increased Insider Threat Risk in a Booming Economy August 8, 2018
  The US economy is booming and, if you have been watching, it has been reflected in the job market. Our usual exposure to the job market as it pertains to the economy is related to the unemployment rate. The July 2018 number was 3.9% – the lowest in 18 years. Another, less discussed measure is […]
• Does Banning USB Drives Really Stop Data Loss? August 1, 2018
  In May of this year, IBM Announced to employees that they would be “prohibiting data transfer to all portable storage devices.” This was a practice in certain parts of IBM that was extended company-wide. The reasons given for the ban are to prevent “the possible financial and reputational damage from misplaced, lost or misused removable […]
• Hackers Compromise US Utility Control Room July 26, 2018
  The WSJ reported Monday that hackers working for Russia had gained access to the control rooms of US utility companies last year. Today, power utilities are part of the critical national infrastructure – the glue holding a society together – and that is why this event is so disturbing. Johnathan Homer, chief of industrial-control-system analysis […]