A company’s slip may have led to a hack, free AI and incident response advice, and more.
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, November 17th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S.
The hackers behind the recent theft of data from the Plume home and small business Wi-Fi service credit the company for their success. According to the news site HackRead, the hackers call themselves MonkeyInject. They opened an account on the X platform to tweet that they compromised the company through the password of a former employee that hadn’t been deleted when they left the company this year. The gang didn’t explain how they got the credentials. But it’s a reminder that the second an employee leaves IT has to cancel their network access.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released a Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Applications. It’s a guide for how the agency will use responsibly create and use AI systems and prevent the malicious use of AI. Organizations looking to develop their own AI guidelines could use this document as a blueprint.
By the way, last week the CISA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency published a guide for emergency managers who have to deal with cybersecurity incidents. It’s aimed at helping emergency managers develop cyber incident response plans to, as the agencies put it, prevent a bad day from becoming worse.
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