Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review for the week ending Friday, September 23rd. From Toronto, I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.
In a few minutes I’ll be joined by David Shipley of Beauceron Security to discuss some of what happened in the past seven days. But first a review of the news highlights:
One of the biggest U.S. brokerage and wealth management firms, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, agreed this week to pay a US$35 million penalty to settle allegations that it failed to properly dispose of hard drives and servers with the unencrypted personal information of about 15 million customers. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said over a five year period a moving company with no experience in data destruction was hired to decommission the devices. But the moving company sold the equipment to a third party who resold them on the internet. Anyone who bought the devices would have been able to see confidential information. David and I will discuss this incident.
We’ll also talk about new details from Uber about its recently-discovered data breach. The company says a threat actor initially got…
