Intelligent CISO Issue 07 | Page 24

threat updates NORTH AMERICA The City of Muscatine announced that a MUSCOM server and the City of Muscatine Shieldware, Springbrook (financial) server and other city servers were the victims of ransomware. City of Muscatine IT staff, along with other IT personnel, worked to isolate the ransomware and restore servers. Muscatine Police, along with federal authorities, were investigating the cyberattack. GLOBAL Facebook announced its engineers had discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts after attackers exploited a vulnerability in the social media site’s code that impacted ‘view as’, a feature which enables people to see what their own profile looks like to someone else. This allowed the attackers to steal Facebook access tokens which they could then use to take over people’s accounts. Access tokens are the equivalent of digital keys that keep people logged in to Facebook so they don’t need to re-enter their password every time they use the app. Facebook said it had fixed the vulnerability and had informed law enforcement. 24 Issue 07 | www.intelligentciso.com