State of Cybercrime7 Sep 2017

When Hackers Behave Like Ghosts

We’re a month away from Halloween, but when a police detective aptly described a hotel hacker as a ghost, I thought it was a really clever analogy! It’s hard to recreate and retrace an attacker’s steps when there are no fingerprints or evidence of forced entry.

Let’s start with your boarding pass. Before you toss it, make sure you shred it, especially the barcode. It can reveal your frequent flyer number, your name, and other PII. You can even submit the passenger’s information on the airline’s website and learn about any future flights. Anyone with access to your printed boarding pass could do harm and you would never know who your perpetrator would be.

Next, let’s assume you arrive at your destination and the hotel is using a hotel key with a vulnerability. In the past, when hackers reveal a vulnerability, companies step up to fix it. But now, when systems need a fix and a software patch won’t do, how do we scale the fix for millions of hardware on hotel keys?

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