CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 5, 2023

Joe Sullivan, the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Uber, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and 200 hours of community service for covering up a cyber attack on the company’s servers in 2016, which led to a data breach affecting over 50 million riders and drivers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

This breach, like every major ransomware attack, was likely because of spear phishing, where someone either received the malware via an emailed attachment or clicked on a link that took them to a website that hosted it. In fact, in March 2016, I wrote a piece in CNN calling for urgent action and offering solutions.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It is not only the CISO, CSO or CIO’s responsibility to care and do the right thing. For instance, in August 2020, a former Uber company executive was criminally prosecuted for not disclosing a data breach back in 2016. The same sentiment holds true for cyber related incidents. Everyone is responsible and accountable.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat.

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