WMAL Interview - MORGAN WRIGHT - 10.04.17

7:05 - INTERVIEW -- MORGAN WRIGHT- Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government - former executive at Cisco & Alcatel-Lucent and - former senior advisor for the US Department of State Antiterrorism Assistance Program

-- Discuss the former Equifax CEO on the hill yesterday, Equifax scores big IRS fraud contract ... also Yahoo admits everyone was hacked and NFL hack too

EQUIFAX - The anger directed at Equifax was bipartisan during a hearing on the credit reporting giant's security breakdown

• IRS awards multimillion-dollar fraud-prevention contract to Equifax

= Social Security number has 'outlived its usefulness', WH cybersecurity coordinator says The Equifax breach of 145.5 million Americans’ personally identifiable information has brought cybersecurity to the national forefront and as experts grapple with protecting consumer privacy, the Social Security number could be on the chopping block. “I feel very strongly that the Social Security number’s outlived its usefulness,” Rob Joyce, White House cybersecurity coordinator, said during a Washington Post conference on Monday. “It’s a flawed system. If you think about it, every time we use the Social Security number [we] put it at risk.”

YAHOO

Yahoo data breach affected every single customer account, or three times initial reports, parent company says (CNN) - Sitting down? An epic and historic data breach at Yahoo in August 2013 affected every single customer account that existed at the time, Yahoo parent company Verizon said on Tuesday. That's three billion accounts -- including email, Tumblr, Fantasy and Flickr -- or three times as many as the company initially reported in 2016. Names, email addresses and passwords, but not financial information, were breached, Yahoo said last year. The new disclosure comes four months after Verizon (VZ, Tech30) acquired Yahoo's core internet assets for $4.48 billion. Yahoo is part of Verizon's digital media company, which is called Oath. Verizon revised the number of breached accounts to three billion after receiving new information

NFL

Personal data of over 1,100 NFL players and agents exposed (The Hill) - The personal data of more than 1,100 NFL players and agents was exposed as the result of a misconfigured online database, a cybersecurity company has revealed. Bob Diachenko, the chief communications officer for Kromtech Alliance, wrote in a blog post on the company's website Monday that researchers had identified a publicly accessible database with players' and their agents' private information. The database, operated by the NFL Players Association, could have been accessed by "anybody with Internet connection," Diachenko wrote in the blog post. He also said that researchers had discovered that the server had been the victim of a ransomware attack, with hackers attempting to lock up the information and require a payment of 0.01 BitCoin — worth about $427 — to unlock it.