Today, CNBC broke the news that Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk believes that an insider sabotaged Tesla by manipulating code in the Tesla Manufacturing Operating System and by exporting large amounts of user data to unknown third parties. Apparently, the insider did it by using false user names. The ... Read More

This morning, the US Department of Justice announced that 74 arrests were made during operation “Wire Wire.” The multi-national law enforcement agency effort collared criminals running Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams. BEC is aimed at businesses’ most trusted insiders, which are those that have the ability to approve payments and ... Read More

Five years ago, the news media went into a frenzy after The Guardian revealed details about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance activities. The news was based on classified documents that former NSA IT contractor Edward Snowden stole while he had privileged access to NSA systems and data. It provided clarity ... Read More

When thinking about the insider threat, it is easy to focus on Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, and lawsuits between companies like Uber and Waymo. This is because the term itself conjures images of a malicious actor with deep access to systems and information that firewalls are (hopefully) protecting. This is ... Read More

Our CEO Christy Wyatt recently joined Scott McGrew on NBC Press:Here, the Silicon Valley version of “Meet the Press.” Alongside Reuters’ Joe Menn and USA TODAY’s Laura Mandaro, the four had a lively discussion on privacy, security and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Some of the topics covered included ... Read More

Last week, Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Director Christopher Wray asked several United States Senate committees to approve his $8.92 billion fiscal 2019 budget request. In a detailed speech, Wray explained that the bureau will use the funds to defend the nation against foreign and domestic threats that included (among ... Read More

Yesterday marked an exciting day for Dtex, as we released one of our keystone pieces of independent research: the 2018 Insider Threat Intelligence Report. This report is our annual effort to look back on findings from the previous year’s User Threat Assessments - gathered across our diverse customer base - ... Read More

It’s only Monday. Like clockwork, we are seeing another data breach that now appears to be the result of a malicious insider. On Friday, the San Francisco (CA) Department of Public Health notified the California State Justice Department that a breach at Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN) exposed personal information (PII) ... Read More

This week, the Justice Department announced that Martin Mehran Taheri of Sterling, VA plead guilty to illegally accessing and then sabotaging the computer systems of his former employer, which is HQ’d in Reston, VA. The release tells the classic insider threat tale of how a former employee used credentials he ... Read More