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Orlando tech expert says Las Vegas level hotel hack could happen here

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ORLANDO, Fla. – Danny Jenkins dropped his credit card while checking into his hotel, leaving it stuck behind the front desk.

The employee generously let the former ethics hacker behind the counter, next to her computer. Jenkins grabbed his card, but he said he could have got a lot more.

“I’m not a cyber criminal … I was able to physically touch four USB ports on that computer. If I would have plugged something in, like a rubber ducky, which is a hacking device — I could’ve gained access to their network,” Jenkins said.

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Jenkins, CEO and co-founder of ThreatLocker, an Orlando-based cyber security firm weighed in on the recent cyber attack in Las Vegas resorts and casinos. Jenkins said, this million dollar attack could easily have happened here, if it didn’t already.

The affected casinos and resorts in Sin City were not taken down from a rubber ducky, but from a “social engineering attack on an outsourced IT support vendor used by the company,” according to SEC filings from Cesars Entertainment.

Jenkins said billions of records were extracted and are being held ransom by the hackers — information such as credit card and social security numbers are at risk.

Meanwhile, Jenkins said ransomware cyber attacks happen everyday in Orlando, but it may not be known as it is not required by law for companies to disclose it when it occurs.

“Everyday hundreds of businesses in Orlando get hit by ransomware attacks, sometimes they are smaller and they pay $20,000 and sometimes they are bigger and they pay $20 million to get their data back,” Jenkins said.

Overall, when going on vacation Jenkins said to put freezes on your credit or debit cards, as this doesn’t cost anything to do.

On the other hand, for companies, he suggests reading up on the guide created by the Center for Internet Security and to make sure employees have the proper training.

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Beefed-up prison security captures record level of contraband

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  • even more jails deploy cutting-edge baggage scanners for prison visitors
  • measures part of £125 million strategy to clamp down on prison rule breakers and cut crime

Game-changing X-ray body scanners have foiled more than 28,000 attempts to smuggle drugs, phones and weapons behind bars as the war on prison rule breakers picks up speed.

Over the last 2 years, more than 90 new advanced scanners have been installed in all closed male jails, producing high-resolution images of concealed contraband so staff can stop more dangerous items from getting in and causing havoc on prison landings.

This tough new security has captured and confiscated illegal contraband concealed on prisoners including mobile phones, vapes and improvised weapons.

Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary, Dominic Raab, said:

Our tough new security measures in prisons are putting prisoners back on the straight and narrow. Allied to our renewed drive to get prisoners off drugs for good, we are cutting crime and keeping the public safe.

This new development comes just days after the government announced plans to roll out cutting-edge baggage scanners to 45 prisons across England and Wales. These will check bags brought in by the thousands of staff and visitors who enter prisons every day – cutting off another route of smuggling. Together these measures have kept mobile phones, drugs and improvised weapons out of the hands of prisoners where they would fuel violence and disorder.

The government’s investment of up to £125 million in next-generation prison security measures has also seen the most challenging prisons kitted out with new handheld and archway metal detectors, and more than 150 specially trained drug sniffer dogs.

This investment has created a new team of specialist investigators to clamp down on the small minority of corrupt staff who have no place in the Prison Service.

And to clamp down on the pernicious smuggling of drugs via prison mail, jails have installed over 135 drug trace detection machines that can detect microscopic smears of new psychoactive substances such as ‘spice’ on letters and items of clothing.

These advances deliver on the government’s commitments…

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Password Security – Take Your Organization to the Next Level

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With the evolution of the internet of things, systems and software available to businesses around the world, there are  many times a day where we need to input a password. But how strong is your organization’s password security and what can you do to take it to the next level?

3 Reasons You Should Stop Relying on Passwords

Single-factor authentication (i.e. usernames and passwords) on their own are not sufficient to protect from threat actors. Let’s take a look at some of the major risks to using a standard password system.

1.    Password Reuse  

It’s hard enough to remember one random, symbol-filled alphanumeric password, let alone a different one for every platform you use across the web. All too often people resort to reusing passwords. This becomes a major problem when one of those platforms is compromised. If that same password was used to access a corporate resource, such as email or VPN, your organization may be vulnerable.

2.    Social Engineering

The amount of personal information on the internet serves as great fuel for hackers who rely on social engineering to gain access to passwords or the accounts they are supposed to protect. Hackers research their target and use the information to stage a customized attack. Whether this is in the form of a phishing email specifically designed to seem legitimate to the recipient, or gathering enough information to impersonate the target to bypass security questions, social engineering is increasingly in the news and presents a large threat to users relying only on passwords.

3.    Form-grabbing Malware

Form-grabbing malware can be used to collect authorization and log-in credentials via a web form, such as an employee’s username and password, and gain access to the company systems such as a VPN. By retrieving this information before it is passed over the internet to a secure server, the malware is able to avoid HTTPS encryption. 

How Strong Are Your Organization’s Passwords

You probably want to start by considering how strong your organization’s password security is currently and what you can do to improve password hygiene within the company.

Okay, you can’t exactly go around asking all your employees…

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New airport-style security in prisons sees record level of drug busts

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  • New X-ray scanners have intercepted almost 20,000 smuggling plots
  • Over 40 of the most challenging prisons have also been kitted out with an array of additional new technology including drug-trace machines and metal detection archways
  • Prisons White Paper outlines new strategy to transform prisons and cut crime

Over the last 2 years, more than 70 cutting-edge X-ray body scanners have been installed in all closed male prisons, producing super sharp images of concealed contraband so staff can easily find and stop dangerous items from entering jails.

These scanners have thwarted almost 20,000 attempts to smuggle contraband on to wings, including one massive haul consisting of 81 individually wrapped white rocks of crack cocaine.

Building on this success, since the beginning of the year 42 of the most challenging prisons have been kitted out with even more high-end equipment. This includes new drug-trace machines that can detect microscopic smears of new psychoactive substances such as ‘spice’ on mail and items of clothing – stopping dangerous drugs from getting onto wings and wreaking havoc.

Gates at these prisons have also been beefed up with new metal detection archways and wands, extra drug dogs and biometric identification for the public. As a result, for the first time ever staff can effectively search visitors coming into jails and seize items such as phones and weapons that can fuel further crime and violence behind bars.

Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said:

With this innovative new technology, we are enforcing our zero tolerance approach to drugs, knives and mobile phones in prisons. Illicit contraband endangers our hard-working staff and thwarts the efforts of other prisoners who are serious about their rehabilitation.

Alongside abstinence-based drug treatment, getting more prisoners than ever into work and improving facilities to maintain family ties, our strategy will make our streets safer and protect the public.

This success reflects record £100 million government investment in innovative technology to keep drugs, mobile phones and weapons out of jails.

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