2021 Security Incidents
Hackers targeted Montenegro’s government institutions, breaching the computer systems of several state bodies. Montenegro’s Defense Minister stated there was sufficient evidence to suspect Russia was behind the attack. CISA, the FBI, and NSA announced state-sponsored hacking groups had long-term access to a defense company since January 2021 and compromised sensitive company data. Pro-Russian hackers claimed responsibility for an attack that knocked U.S. state government websites offline, including Colorado’s, Kentucky’s and Mississippi’s. Russian official, Vladimir Shin, accused the U.S. government and its allies of a coordinated campaign of cyberattacks against Russia.
The government believes hackers breached sensitive government data in this attack. The increasing need for attribution techniques in incident response is not just some by-product of a Security Analyst wanting to play counter-intelligence agent. Attribution is vital for correlating and prioritizing the tidal wave of data we need to pour through to make informed response decisions.
The customer needs to ensure they are notified of any such obligations and the prior notice period given in order to be prepared for any inquiries from the media or public regarding the impact. Many countries have cybercrime laws that determine how a computer security breach should be handled. Some of these laws are applied depending on whether the victim, perpetrator, or crime has been committed within that specific jurisdiction. It is possible that a security breach occurring in the cloud could be subject to cybercrime laws from various jurisdictions. How to comply with the requirements of these laws will play an important role in the development of the Cloud Incident Respond Framework. At the heart of its function, the CSIRT is a service part of the organization—to provide incident response expertise.
B.Second, ensuring the Incident Response Team has the proper unencumbered senior executive level support, authority, and responsibility. A.First, ensuring team members are properly hired, trained, and certified. The criticality of the response always will require the best of the best to respond. 5.27 is a corrective control that maintains risk by creating procedures which categorise and learn from previous incidents, and reduce the “likelihood or consequences” of future incidents.
Additionally, a network firewall can monitor internal traffic. To handle password attacks, organizations should adopt multifactor authentication for user validation. In addition, users should use strong passwords that include at least seven characters as well as a mix of upper and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols.
Secure your computer and other devices by using anti-virus and anti-malware software.Kaspersky Antivirus is a good choice to keep your computer free from infection and ensure that hackers can’t get a foothold in your system. If you see transactions that you don’t recognize, address them immediately. That will give you an idea of the severity of the situation. For instance, if tax details and SSNs have been stolen, you’ll need to act fast to ensure your identity isn’t stolen. This is more serious than simply losing your credit card details.
We utilize an industry standard Zero Knowledge architecture that ensures LastPass can never know or gain access to our customers’ Master Password. You can read about the technical implementation of Zero Knowledge here. In keeping with our commitment to transparency, I wanted to inform you of Security incidents that our team is currently investigating. There is no evidence that any unencrypted credit card data was accessed. LastPass does not store complete credit card numbers and credit card information is not archived in this cloud storage environment. These encrypted fields remain secured with 256-bit AES encryption and can only be decrypted with a unique encryption key derived from each user’s master password using our Zero Knowledge architecture.
Any incident with malicious intent to adversely affect critical cyber assets, including information technology equipment. Our world-class information security management system software platform makes it super easy to understand what needs to be done and how to do it. Bolster user awareness by providing real world examples of past incidents, how best to respond to them, how to avoid them and what the consequences are when matters get out of hand. Source code from the Development environment into Production. This capability is limited to a separate Build Release team and can only happen after the completion of rigorous code review, testing, and validation processes. When you’re accessing your accounts, make sure you’re using the secure HTTPS protocol and not just HTTP.
While an initial diagnosis determined the attack did not damage or expose citizens’ data, it made health services severely limited. Hackers targeted the Pakistan Air Force in a spearfishing campaign to deploy malware and obtain sensitive files. Pakistani and Chinese organizations claimed the attack came from Indian-linked hackers.
