Posts for category: Hawaii News

Shakacon 2018 Highlights

The Shakacon X IT Security Conference was held at the Prince Waikiki on July 11-12, 2018. Stealth Mango & Tangelo: Selling your fruits to state actors Andrew Blaich and Michael Flossman, ...

Global Weekly Executive Summary, 13 April 2018

State of Hawaii Targeted in Iranian Data Theft The U.S. Department of Justice’s recent indictment of nine Iranians accused of conducting cyberattacks contained a list of targeted organizations ...

of Hawaii Data Breach

TheUniversity of Hawaii system suffered a data breach as the result of a spear phishing campaign that exposed personal information of up to 2,400 faculty, staff, students, and student applicants. The ...

Trouble in Paradise: Hawaii Emergency Mismanagement

[caption id="attachment_6897" align="alignleft" width="225"] Source: Wired[/caption] On Saturday January 13, 2018, people in the Hawaiian islands found themselves in the midst of a large-scale ...

Hawaii’s False Missile Alert Headlines

Headlines and Links related to Hawaii’s False Missile Alert CNET, Hawaii missile alert on smartphones was false alarm Reuters, Tears and panic as false missile alert unnerves Hawaii The ...

Hawaii Locations Included in Hyatt Hotels Breach

Hyatt Hotels announced that they had been hit with their second payment card breach in as many years. According the a message from Hyatt’s Global President of Operations, this breach involved ...

Postcard from Shakacon 2017

350 Cybersecurity workers, administrators, students, and enthusiasts met at the Prince Waikiki Hotel on July 12-13, 2017 for Shakacon IX. Shakacon is billed as Hawaii’s only Call for Paper based ...

Trump Waikiki Hotel Data Breach

The credit card information of some Trump Waikiki Hotel customers was exposed after a breach of hospitality reservations booking service Sabre SynXis Central Reservations. Sabre is used by Trump ...

Major Hawaii organizations appear unharmed by WannaCry Ransomware

"Local health care and financial institutions appear to have been left unscathed by the massive ransomware cyberattack that struck hospitals, companies and government agencies ...

Two Hawaii Data Breaches Affecting the Tourist Industry Announced on the Same Day

Two Hawaii Data Breaches Affecting the Tourist Industry Announced on the Same Day Both Roberts Hawaii and Turtle Bay Resort notified their customers of “payment card incidents” involving the ...