The Twelve Days of Christmas Hacking

On the twelfth day of Christmas my IOT 5G M2M data-mining tech industry gave to me:

Twelve Russian Intelligence Officers Charged Over US Election Hacking[1]

Eleven Year-Old Hacked Into a U.S. Voting System Replica in 10 Minutes[2]

Ten Airports Where You’re Likely To Get Hacked[3]

Ninety Thousand Canadian Bank Customers Hacked[4]

(one) Eight Hundred 1-800 Flowers Breached[5] (but only in Canada)

Seven Russian Intelligence Officers Charged With Hacking 40 Sports[6]

$$$$$ $ix Hundred Thousand Paid for $extortion [7]

Five Hundred Million Marriott Customers hacked[8]

Four Filthy Hacking Nations [9]

Three G 3G Jeep Entertainment Center Hack[10] and

Three Ukrainians arrested for hacking over 100 US companies[11] (extra credit)

Two point 5 (2.5) Million Water Utility Customers Hacked[12]

And a loss of safety, security, and privacy……. even for donut lovers[13] and babies[14], and possibly even causing a lack of electricity and grid failure[15]

Are we out of our tree?

Notes:

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/13/twelve-russian-intelligence-officers-charged-us-election-hacking/

[2] http://time.com/5366171/11-year-old-hacked-into-us-voting-system-10-minutes/

[3] http://fortune.com/2018/07/18/most-vulnerable-hacking-airport-san-diego/

[4] https://www.pandasecurity.com/mediacenter/news/canadian-banks-hacked/

[5] https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/bloom-is-off-the-rose-canadian-1-800-flowers-operation-discloses-four-year-breach/

[6] https://www.npr.org/2018/10/04/654306774/russian-cyber-unit-accused-of-attacking-opcw-chemical-weapons-watchdog

[7] https://threatpost.com/sextortion-emails-force-payment-via-gandcrab-ransomware/139753/

[8] https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/30/18119770/marriott-hotels-starwood-hack

[9] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/13/former_nsa_top_hacker_names_the_filthy_four_of_nationstate_hacking/

[10] https://threatpost.com/podcast-iot-firms-face-a-tidal-wave-of-lawsuits-attorney-explains/139045/

[11] https://phys.org/news/2018-08-ukrainians-hacking-companies.html

[12] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2018/04/18/cities-are-facing-a-deluge-of-cyberattacks-and-the-worst-is-yet-to-come/#7705bd1a2559 and:

[13] https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2018/11/29/dunkin-donuts-accounts-hacked

[14] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/06/05/617196788/s-c-mom-says-baby-monitor-was-hacked-experts-say-many-devices-are-vulnerable

[15] https://ioactive.com/pdfs/IOActive_HackingCitiesPaper_CesarCerrudo.pdf

Patricia Burke works with activists across the country and internationally calling for new biologically-based microwave radio frequency exposure limits. She is based in Massachusetts and can be reached at [email protected].