Humble ISD Cybersecurity Briefing
It's been a busy Summer!
💡 Presented at the TETL 2024 Summer conference in Dallas on Cybersecurity Legislation Updates and AI Policy.
💡 Gave a presentation on Cybersecurity Awareness Program Strategies at the July TX-ISAO monthly meeting (TX-DIR Office of the CISO).
💡 The newest Humble ISD Ask an Expert podcast on Cybersecurity was released (Episode 21).
Security Company CrowdStrike Crashes Windows Systems Worldwide
Insurers have begun calculating the financial damage caused by last week’s devastating CrowdStrike software glitch that crashed computers, canceled flights and disrupted hospitals all around the globe — and the picture isn’t pretty.
What’s been described as the largest IT outage in history will cost Fortune 500 companies alone more than $5 billion in direct losses, according to one insurer’s analysis of the incident published Wednesday.
The new figures put into stark relief how a single automated software update brought much of the global economy to a sudden halt — revealing the world’s overwhelming dependence on a key cybersecurity company — and what it will take to recover.
AT&T Monster Breach!
US phone giant AT&T has notified customers that cybercriminals managed to download phone call and text message records of “nearly all of AT&T cellular customers from May 1, 2022 to October 31, 2022 as well as on January 2, 2023”.
AT&T says the customer data was illegally downloaded from its workspace on a third-party cloud platform. This might be related to the Snowflake incidents we have seen several of by now.
