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An ex-employee of a NY credit union destroys 21GB of data as retaliation
Former credit union worker Juliana Barile admitted to breaking into the company’s computer systems without permission and erasing over 21 terabytes of data as retaliation for being sacked.
Acting U.S. Attorney Jacquelyn M. Kasulis stated that Barile “removed mortgage loan applications and other sensitive material held on its file server” after secretly accessing the computer system of her former employer, a New York Credit Union.
Within 40 minutes, over 20,000 papers were deleted
Until May 19, 2021, when she was fired, the defendant allegedly worked remotely for the credit union as a part-time employee.
Barile’s credentials for remote access were left in place despite a request from a credit union staffer to the bank’s IT support company. On May 21, two days later, Barile checked in for about 40 minutes.
During that period, the defendant removed about 20,000 files and around 3,500 directories, totaling about 21.3 gigabytes of information from the bank’s shared drive.
Files pertaining to customers’ mortgage loan applications and the financial institution’s anti-ransomware defence programme were deleted.
Barile opened several private Word documents, including files holding the credit union’s board minutes, in addition to deleting papers containing consumer and business information.
They didn’t cancel my access so I erased p drift lol. Five days later, on May 26, she also revealed to a pal via text messages how she was able to obliterate thousands of documents on her former employer’s servers. I removed their shared network papers from the system.
The New York credit union had backups of some of the material that the defendant had erased, but after Barile’s unauthorised intrusion, it still cost more than $10,000 to restore the lost data.
The FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Driscoll continued, “Ms. Barile may have felt she was getting even with her employer by destroying files, but she inflicted just as much harm to customers.”
“Her small-scale retaliation not only put the bank at great danger for security, but it also caused chaos for consumers whose mortgage payments depended on paperwork and permissions.
“An inner threat can cause just as much destruction as an outside criminal, if not more. Now, the bank and its clients must deal with the enormous headache of one employee’s selfish behaviour.
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Bloomberg:
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Even when using the most recent firmware, security researchers examined nine widely used WiFi routers and discovered a total of 226 possible vulnerabilities in them.
Millions of people use the tested routers, which are made by Asus, AVM, D-Link, Netgear, Edimax, TP-Link, Synology, and Linksys.
The TP-Link Archer AX6000, which has 32 problems, and the Synology RT-2600ac, which has 30 security flaws, are the two devices with the most vulnerabilities.
The examination process
In partnership with CHIP magazine, researchers at IoT Inspector conducted security tests with a focus on models primarily used by small businesses and residential users.
According to Florian Lukavsky, CTO & Founder at IoT Inspector, “vendors provided them with current models, which were upgraded to the newest firmware version, for Chip’s router review.”
“IoT Inspector automatically examined the firmware versions and searched for more than 5,000 CVEs and other security flaws.”
Although not all defects posed the same risk, the researchers discovered a few widespread issues that impacted the majority of the evaluated models:
The firmware contains an outdated Linux kernel.
stale VPN and multimedia features
over-reliance on BusyBox’s earlier iterations
weak default passwords like “admin” are used
Hardcoded credentials are present in plain text.
Changing the router’s default password when configuring it for the first time is one of the most crucial steps you can take to secure it, according to Jan Wendenburg, CEO of IoT Inspector.
Whether an IoT device is used at home or in a corporate network, changing the password upon first use and turning on automatic updates must be regular procedure, according to Wendenburg.
In addition to manufacturer-introduced vulnerabilities, utilising an IoT device with the adage “plug, play, and forget” poses the greatest risk.
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ReporReport: hackers scraped data of 500M LinkedIn users and posted it for sale online; LinkedIn confirms the dataset includes publicly viewable info from its site (Katie Canales/Insider)
Katie Canales / Insider:
Report: hackers scraped data of 500M LinkedIn users and posted it for sale online; LinkedIn confirms the dataset includes publicly viewable info from its site — – Personal data from 500 million LinkedIn users has been scraped and is reportedly for sale on a hacking forum.t: hackers scraped data of 500M LinkedIn users and posted it for sale online; LinkedIn confirms the dataset includes publicly viewable info from its site (Katie Canales/Insider)
Katie Canales / Insider:
Report: hackers scraped data of 500M LinkedIn users and posted it for sale online; LinkedIn confirms the dataset includes publicly viewable info from its site — – Personal data from 500 million LinkedIn users has been scraped and is reportedly for sale on a hacking forum.
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