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Compromised again: Another monster data breach
Compromised again: Another monster data breach
By Richard Moss | Feb 3, 2009 | 18557 reads
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On-line recruitment firm monster.com has revealed another major security breach compromising millions of its customers' personal data. This follows a similar breach in 2007 which compromised 1.3 million users' details.
Back in 2007 I used that monster.com breach during security seminars as empirical evidence of the change in the nature of the threat faced by organisations – the shift from hobbyist hacker to criminal. The shift was well documented but not necessarily well understood (even believed) in some quarters − but the 2007 breach at monster was demonstration that criminally motivated attacks could be made against targets where the motivation was monetary, but the theft was not intrinsically financial; rather, the aim was illegal acquisition of data that had potential commercial value, in this case, people's personal details. This shift is now complete and represents a significant threat to the modern-day fabric of society which the Internet epitomises!
And monster isn't the only recruitment site that has fallen foul of criminal activity. Numerous sites in the past having fallen victim to such attacks, a casualty of the trade-off between ease-of-use and security.
But should users be worried about the loss of data in this case? Given that the majority of data – although personal – is something that is in a CV and therefore in the public domain to some extent, there’s no need for an over-reaction. However, the consequence for users whose data has been compromised varies from an increase in personalised spam attacks (Phishing for passwords or other valuable details), to e-mail mimicking monster.com with the intent of downloading malware, to an additional vector of attack via the combination of the compromised personal details and monster.com password against other on-line applications – sadly it's not unusual for users to use the same (and often weak) user-name and password combination for multiple on-line applications such as Facebook, LinkedIn, or − worse still − financial applications such as banking.
Users impacted here would do well to change passwords on other applications as soon as possible, avoid using a single password for multiple applications, use a strong password that’s difficult to guess (combining letters, numerals and symbols) and should as a matter of course change passwords on a regular basis − after all, how would you know if any organisation to which you have given over the security of your personal information has been compromised in the past 24 hours, or the past week?
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