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.