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Good guy hackers: St. Paul company uncovers companies’ cybersecurity weaknesses
Their mission this night: uncover cyber and infrastructure security weaknesses at Intereum, an office furniture supply company.
“We worked with this organization to do what we called penetration tests,” said Matt Quinn, Intereum’s vice president of integrated solutions. “They worked on trying to get through the perimeter, through the physical parts of the building … we also had them take some steps around cybersecurity, vulnerabilities.”
“Show you, yep, we were able to get through this door, we were able to bypass this censor,” Halbach said. “And at the end of the day we plugged into your network and took it over.”
The idea is to beat cyberthieves at their own game before an actual ransomware attack or other threat.
“Try to look at any available computers that they could get through,” Quinn explains. “Try to get on to our network, once they got into the building, as well as continue just to snoop around where our servers are, just to see if they could get access to our network.”
The team is made up of two parts: One company, RedTeam Security, zeros in on computer systems. Their partner, FoxPoint Security, accesses the building itself.
“The more integration we have with our networks to our physical locations, the more ways there are to compromise it,” said Bryan Carver, a FoxPoint spokesperson. “If a building per se has a security network that locks the doors, or unlocks the doors, people, property, or operations could be held hostage.”
“Because if you have the most secure computer network in all the world, but your door’s unlocked and anyone can walk in and steal your laptops, that’s a pretty big issue,” Halbach added.
Within minutes, both teams are inside — although they’ve triggered an alarm system.
They quickly locate Intereum’s servers. Equipped with USB drives loaded with a custom code to remotely control the company’s computers, RedTeam finds an unlocked laptop that allows them access.
“We actually had an employee transition at the time, and that computer was left open and available that evening,” Quinn said. “And, of course, they got access to it, and that, of course, would be a…
DataDownload: Remembering Dan Kaminsky, the digital Paul Revere | by NYC Media Lab | May, 2021
DataDownload: Remembering Dan Kaminsky, the digital Paul Revere A weekly summary of all things Media, Data, Emerging Tech View this email in your browser
Daniel Kaminsky died this week. He was an internet innovator, and he was 42. What isn’t as widely known is that he died from diabetes. It was, as we now so often hear, a ‘preexisting condition.’ That phrase was used to explain early deaths from COVID-19, and to battle get American’s decent health care coverage. But the simple fact is, most everyone you know has something. It’s time to acknowledge that improving heath care is a national priority for everyone.
Then we have good news — lots of it in fact. A great piece on the innovations at Spotify. The growth of Crypto among migrant workers. Congress getting schooled on algorithmic misinformation. And some surprising data in who’s reading news platforms (hint, Google isn’t at the top of the list).
This week, don’t miss our Podcast recommendation — This American Life’s episode called: The Herd. It’s a brilliant, chilling look at vaccine hesitancy — and how hard it is to combat it.
And, the big news is our amazing panel on NFTs and the future of Art and Artists. It’s a can’t miss event. And we’re co-sponsoring the WSJ Future of Everything Festival. We have tix, so grab ’em fast.
That’s this week. It’s May — already. So buckle up for a busy spring and summer.
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The NYC Media Lab Must-Read Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42
It’s sad that the unsung heroes of the internet are really only sung about when they’ve passed on. Daniel Kaminsky, who had taught himself how to code by the age of 5 and got through the Pentagon’s defenses by 11, recently died at the age of 42. In 2008, Kaminsky alerted the Department of Homeland Security, executives at Microsoft and Cisco, and other internet security experts about a fundamental flaw of the internet. He discovered that the Domain Name System, or DNS, protocol had a flaw that would allow hackers to manipulate traffic so that “a person typing the website for a bank would instead be redirected to an impostor site that could steal…
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