Lab – What was Taken?
Objectives
Search for and read about a few recent occurrences of security breaches.
Background / Scenario
Security breaches occur when individuals or applications are trying to gain unauthorized access to data,
applications, services, or devices. During these breaches, the attackers, whether they are insiders or not,
attempt to obtain information that they could use for financial gains or other advantages. In this lab, you will
explore a few security breaches to determine what was taken, what exploits were used, and what you can do
to protect yourself.
Required Resources
• PC or mobile device with Internet access
Security Breach Research
a. Use the two provided links to security breaches from different sectors to fill out the table below.
b. Search for a few additional interesting breaches and record the findings in the table below.
How many victims? What exploits were used?
Incident Affected Reference
Date Organization What was Taken? How do you protect yourself? Source
December Neiman Marcus 5200 Automated attacks to attempt
26, 2015 Group (NMG) various login and password
combinations.
Using a complex and random SC Magazine
password.
Between Centene Corp 950000 They have been stollen.
2009-2015 Backing up information to other
hard drivers, and kep them safe
and secure. SC Magazine
In order to
prevente these
types of breaches,
is very important
to keep our
passwords
complex and
random, if its
possible and two
step verification,
as keeping hard
drivers with clients
or personal
information datas
in safe place with
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protect them with
passwords.
Lab – What was Taken?
Reflection
After reading about the security breaches, what can you do to prevent these types of breaches?
In order to prevente these types of breaches, is very important to keep our passwords complex and random, if its
possible and two step verification, as keeping hard drivers with clients or personal information datas in safe place with
limit acess, as well protect them with passwords.
By Celso Mundlovo
April 18, 2018
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