Episode #221:University of Sydney Students Suffers Data Breach; FBI takes down Qakbot; First Year in Review

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University of Sydney Students Suffers Data Breach

🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia ↗

The University of Sydney has suffered a third party data breach exposing students' personal information. The university said that the issue was isolated to a single platform and had no impact on other university systems. 

FBI takes down Qakbot

🇺🇸 Katy Craig, San Diego, California ↗

The FBI working with international partners has dismantled Qakbot a massive and disruptive botnet. QakBot was behind at least 40 ransomware attacks causing hundreds of millions in damages, and was running on over 700,000 endpoints worldwide, 200,000 of which were in the US.

First Year in Review

🇺🇸 Mark Miller, New York City↗

It is a holiday here in the United States. With many taking the day off, I'm going to take a couple minutes to evaluate where we've come in the first year of It's 5:05, and let you know where we're headed in the second year.