Big Breaches

Part I: The Biggest BreachesThe goal of this part is to explain, in plain English, the biggest breaches in recent years, focusing on what has resulted in everything from exposure of the majority of American consumers financial identities to a foreign power more than significantly influencing the election of our most recent President.  The breaches will be covered in reverse chronological order of the years in which the breaches were made public (even though some of them occurred prior), and in the summary section, Ill also comment on the relevance and implications of the actual years in which the breaches took place.Chapter 1: The Five Key Root Causes This chapter reviews the five basic root causes that well see in all the mega-breaches that will be reviewed in subsequent chapters. Phishing Malware Third-party compromise (suppliers, customers, and partners, as well as acquisitions) Software Vulnerabilities (application security as well as third-party vulnerabilities) Inadvertent employee mistakes  Chapter 2: The Capital One Breach in 2019On July 29, 2019, court documents were released regarding a security breach at Capital One that exposed data for over 105 million people. A lone hacker gained access to highly sensitive data including names, social security numbers, addresses, and dates of birth.  This hack is just one example in which over a hundred million customer records have been exposed to the entire Internet. The Modern Day Datacenter: The Cloud and Hybrid Clouds Erratic: Former Amazon Web Services employee The Firewall Hack The Ex-Filtration The Simple Mistakes The Charges & The Fallout  Chapter 3: Cambridge Analytica & FacebookThe goal of this chapter is to cover two issues that both involved Facebook.  The first issue is how Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that assisted President Trumps presidential campaign, abused Facebook to harvest data on 70 million U.S. consumers to cr