The Security box, podcast 204 for August 14, 2024

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Welcome to the security box, podcast 204. What big story is coming out about a company who has apparently gained access to tons of data illegally? The names, potential relative information, possible address information and social security numbers may be affected. Our topic today talks about how IT workers are getting hit with a new ransomware strain called Rino. All of this as well as the news, notes, questions and comments from any participents that may come in.

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The next possible biggest breach

There's a lot of conflicting information, especially when it comes to which particular group supposedly hacked the company to begin with. This particular incident reminds me of the OPM breach of 2018.

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Here are our blog posts which talk about the subject as of writing these notes. There's still a lot for us to learn.

• We’ve got more on this NPD databreach was written on august 11, 2024 and it links to a Bleeping Computer article. There are a lot of questions here including the exact number of people and the fact that there are conflicts within the data that was seen by the publication.
• 2.9 billion users, National public data gained data illegally is the blog post that links to the hackread article that Kim Komando linked to within her newsletter. This one talks about a lawsuit and that lawsuit deals with the fact that this company got the info illegally and orders the court to delete the illegal data. We highlighted this article on the Throwback Saturday Night program for August 10th. The RSS for that show is on this link.

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What is Sharp Rino?

Ransomware gangs target IT workers with sharp rino malware is the blog post which leads to today's discussion from Bleeping Computer titled Ransomware gang targets IT workers with new SharpRhino malware which should be a very interesting discussion.

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