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Twitter boss, Jack Doresy, had his Twitter account was hacked at the end of August, with hackers using his account to send a stream of offensive messages to his 4.2 million followers. It appears Jack was using his mobile phone to provide multi-factor authentication access to his Twitter account, a good solid security practice to adopt, however, it appears his Twitter account password and his mobile phone SMS service were both compromised, the latter probably due to either sim card swap fraud social engineering by the hacker, or by an insider at his mobile network service provider. A database holding over a million fingerprints and personal data was exposed on the net by Suprema , a biometric security company. Researchers at VPNMentor didn't disclose how they were able to find and access the 'Biostar 2' database, nor how long the data was accessible online. Biostar 2 is used by 5,700 organisations, including governments, banks and the UK Metropolitan Police. In a similar...

A new report  released by Deep Secure revealed 45% of office workers surveyed would sell their company's corporate information. Just £1,000 would be enough to tempt 25% of employees to give away company information, while 5% would give it away for free. 59% of staff admitted at some point to have taken company information from a corporate network or devices, which matches up to known industry trends.  What is the Price of Loyalty?   Common Staff Data Exfiltration Tactics Digital; email, uploading to cloud services and copying to external storage (11%) Using steganography or encryption tools to hide exfiltration (8%) Printing information (11%) Handwriting copying information (9%) Photographing information (8%) Type of Information Taken Personal Work (19%) Customer Information i.e. contact details, confidential market information, sales pipeline  (11%) Company Assets i.e. passwords to subscription services, company benefits (7%) The Mot...