This week on Hacker And The Fed your car may know all the details about your sex life, the Swiss fined an insurer 3 million dollars for horrible cyber security practices, the US Departments of State and Commerce were compromised because of a two-year-old Windows crash report, Iran and New Korea hacking crews have active campaigns against security researchers, and two victories over Russian hackers for the US government.
Links from the episode:
Insurer Fined $3M for Exposing Data of 650k Clients for Two Years
If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare
https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-new-cars-data-privacy-report-1850805416
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/09/connected-cars-are-a-privacy-nightmare-mozilla-foundation-says/
Microsoft Finally Explains Cause of Azure Breach: An Engineer’s Account Was Hacked
https://twitter.com/0xdabbad00/status/1699596048392736812
Hacker Group Disguised as Marketing Company to Attack Enterprise Targets
https://gbhackers.com/hacker-group-disguised-as-marketing/
Active North Korean Campaign Targeting Security Researchers
Russian Infosec Boss Gets Nine Years for $100M Insider-Trading Caper Using Stolen Data
https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/09/08/russian_insider_training_prison/
United States and United Kingdom Sanction Additional Members of the Russia-Based Trickbot Cybercrime Gang
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1714
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