The FBI has reportedly been unsuccessful this week in trying to crack the PIN on a phone belonging to the suspect in Sunday's mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.
FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich said if the suspect used a six- or eight-digit passcode, it could take months or years to break, The Hill reported Thursday.
The shooting left nine people dead and 27 injured.
The suspected shooter was killed by police at the scene.
The FBI has been able to unlock one of the alleged shooter's phones, a Samsung device, a Senate Democratic source told CBS News Thursday.
However, the suspect, Connor Betts, of Bellbrook, Ohio, had multiple phones.
FBI Director Robert Mueller once said, “There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be.” Every business, no matter its industry or scale, is a potential target and unless there is a strong security culture in place, odds are that a breach will occur, causing a loss of information, leakage of critical data or direct financial fraud.
A 2018 study by Ponemon and IBM estimated the global average cost of a data breach at over $3.86 million, a stunning 6.4 per cent increase since the last year.
HBO recently lost 1.5 terabytes of data, including TV show episodes, scripts, manager emails and some actors’ personal information.
Economic Impact: A recent Frost & Sullivan report estimated that a large enterprise in the APAC region, can potentially incur over 30 Million USD in cybersecurity breaches every year.
This not only affects their operational productivity but also hampers their innovation and research capabilities, setting back their growth by months.
This forced Sony Entertainment to shut down operations for an entire month before the situation could be managed.
The FBI is looking for a partner to collect data from your social media profiles, which could pit it against new privacy policies Facebook agreed to as part of its $5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
A request for proposal posted on Aug. 8 reveals that the FBI wants to hire a third party contractor to help it scrape to social media data “to proactively identify and reactively monitor threats to the United States and its interests.” The document was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
“With increased use of social media platforms by subjects of current FBI investigations and individuals that pose a threat to the United States, it is critical to obtain a service which will allow the FBI to identify relevant information from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other Social media platforms in a timely fashion,” the FBI wrote in its request.
“Consequently, the FBI needs near real time access to a full range of social media exchanges in order to obtain the most current information available in furtherance of its law enforcement and intelligence missions.”
While the request is from last month, it’s even more relevant in light of the recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, and President Donald Trump’s call to better use social media to detect and stop mass shooters before they can go on a rampage .
The FBI’s request could, in theory, violate a ban against the use of Facebook data for surveillance services that Facebook agreed to as part of a $5 billion FTC settlement last month.
The trend of attacking Managed IT Service Providers is continuing.
An MSP paid hackers about $150,000 to unlock data
Hackers specifically targeting MSP software platforms to launch ransomware attacks
Ryuk ransomware hitting a Cloud Service Provider that works closely with MSPs.
Hackers have been hitting MSPs of all sizes — not just global technology service providers.
of Homeland Security have repeatedly warned MSPs and their technology platform providers about such attacks.
Biometric technology is a system, which measures the statistical analytics of any individual, based on the physiological and behavioural characteristics.
Increasing demand for authentication and high security are the major factors driving growth of the global biometric vehicle access market
Privacy is the major concern regarding biometric solution resulting in the increasing demand for authentication.
Vehicle theft is one of the major problems faced by the consumers due to lack of security systems in the vehicles.
Therefore, increasing threat of vehicle stealing is resulting in increasing demand for biometric authentication solutions in vehicles, which is a safer security solution.
Therefore, the probabilities of fraudulence in the fingerprint recognition system is less than that in the conventional recognition, which is expected to significantly increase the use of finger print recognition systems in the biometric vehicles.
The phone was locked and they wanted to obtain additional information by breaking into the phone.
As the case progressed, eventually government realised that they did not need Apple's help after all, and that a third party was ready to do the hacking for them.
Try to unlock the disabled device using iTunes
There is a high chance that you must have previously synced your device with iTunes.
You can utilize a recent backup in order to restore your iPhone/iPad and reset the passcode.
Wait for some time before iTunes syncs your device and then make a backup.
Here is a lawyer's secret to dispute credit report errors, so pay close attention.
This is where someone steals your personal identification and applies for loans in your name.
A way to combat this is to file a police or FBI report identifying the theft and to file an identity theft affidavit with the Federal Trade Commission.The last type of common error is where the account did belong to you but it is reporting inaccurately.
This could be the account was previously paid, closed, is older than seven (7) years, appears multiple times or is showing an incorrect balance.
For these accounts you need to obtain some type of document showing the inaccuracy.
The next step is to write a well written dispute letter to the credit bureaus explaining and proving the error with these documents.
