What I'm Reading 3/14/2020 - Coronavirus And A Databreach! Is There Nothing Princess Cruises Can't Do?

Books -

Network Forensics Tracking Hackers Through Cyberspace

The Ten-Day MBA 4th Ed.: A Step-By-Step Guide To Mastering The Skills Taught In America's Top Business Schools

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century

Blogs / News -

Dark Reading - Princess Cruises Confirms Data Breach -

A notice published on the Princess website says suspicious activity was identified in late May 2019. Forensics experts were hired to launch an investigation, which found an unauthorized party gained access to some employee accounts between April 11 and July 23, 2019. It's unclear why Princess waited to post the notice, which is believed to have gone live in early March 2020.

The employee accounts accessed contained personal data regarding Princess employees, crew, and guests. While the type of data compromised "varies by individual," officials say, it could include name, address, Social Security number, government identification number (passport number or driver's license number), credit card and bank account information, and health data.

CyberScoop - Hackers had access to European electricity organization’s email server for weeks: report -

The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) said a data breach had been confined to its office network, and that no critical power systems were affected. It didn’t mention how or why the intrusion began.

But a public analysis of a cybersecurity incident, which multiple people familiar with the matter said matches the details of the ENTSO-E breach, indicates that the attackers were communicating with the victim organization’s email server for more than a month.

This is a follow-up to an article that was linked 3/10/2020 , juts in case it looked familiar.

Related (just saying is all): 

Blackout by Mark Elsberg -

This is no act of God.

This is a Blackout.

This is no accident.

When the lights go out one night, no one panics. Not yet. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely it's a glitch, a storm, a malfunction. But something seems strange about this night. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electrical grids collapse. There is no power, anywhere.

A former hacker and activist, Piero investigates a possible cause of the disaster. The authorities don't believe him, and he soon becomes a prime suspect himself. With the United States now also at risk, Piero goes on the run with Lauren Shannon, a young American CNN reporter based in Paris, desperate to uncover who is behind the attacks. After all, the power doesn't just keep the lights on—it keeps us alive. 

 NBC News - The U.S. is now investigating Chinese telecom giant ZTE for alleged bribery -

ZTE, the Chinese telecom giant that pleaded guilty three years ago to violating U.S. sanctions against Iran and North Korea, is the subject of a new and separate bribery investigation by the Justice Department, according to two people briefed on the matter.

The new investigation, which has not been reported previously, centers on possible bribes ZTE paid to foreign officials to gain advantages in its worldwide operations.

 Sydney Morning Herald - Doctors mystified as man's transplanted hands turn female -

Islamabad: When surgeons offered Shreya Siddanagowder new hands a year after she lost her own in an accident, there was a potential complication. The donor hands matched her blood group, but not only were they much darker than her own skin, they were big, hairy and came from a man.

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Now more than two years after the successful operation, doctors have been baffled by a transformation in the 21-year-old student's new hands, which have changed to match their new owner's arms. The transplanted hands have become dramatically lighter, hairless and more slender.