Capgemini

2022 - 7 - 13

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Razer sues IT firm Capgemini for over US$7m, wants full ... (Vulcan Post)

The civil suit between local gaming products company Razer and IT solutions provider Capgemini began in Singapore's High Court today (Jul 13).

Razer has accused Capgemini of shifting blame and failing to take responsibility for the breach. Razer contends that a Capgemini employee caused the cybersecurity breach when an issue cropped up in Razer’s internal IT system last June. Last year, Razer discovered a cybersecurity breach that revealed that the personal information of about 100,000 Razer customers could have been exposed.

Razer sues IT vendor over data leak, says security breach caused ... (The Straits Times)

SINGAPORE - Home-grown gaming hardware company Razer has sued an IT vendor for allegedly causing a widely reported cybersecurity breach in 2020 that ...

"Razer did its best to respond to the cyber-security breach as soon as the correct decision-makers in the company were made aware of the same," said Mr Wong. Razer denied that it had failed to mitigate its losses and said its management team became aware of the breach on Sept 9, 2020. Razer is seeking to recover the losses from Capgemini, alleging that one of the defendant's employees was the culprit who caused the security breach when he misconfigured and disabled the security settings of a computer server.

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Razer takes Capgemini to court over data breach, says Capgemini ... (Marketing Interactive)

Technology company Razer is suing info-technology company Capgemini for at least US$7 million for a cybersecurity breach that occurred in 2020.

Personal information of more than 57,000 customers subscribed to StarHub before 2007 was discovered to have been uploaded illegally on a third-party data dump website, while OrangeTee’s holding company OT Group received an email from a third-party, claiming to have accessed its IT network. Customers of the hotel were also asked to check for unauthorised transactions, unusual email logins and even told to change their passwords. Razer's lawyers have also added that Capgemini had failed to mention that the breach occured in its post-incident reports. Earlier this year, customers of Harbour Plaza Hotel in Hong Kong were asked to be on guard for possible scams when its booking database saw an attack compromising the data of more than a million customers. Both Razer and Capgemini are global brands that are trusted within their industries. Meanwhile, Capgemini has defended that Razer's new internet provider addresses may have also caused the breach.

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Smart factories lack smart security, warns Capgemini (Diginomica)

The latest Capgemini takes a swipe at smart-factory initiatives and explains why security is often lacking.

In related news, a report published today by security specialist Barracuda, The State of Industrial Security in 2022, finds that over 94% of UK organizations have experienced some form of security incident in the last 12 months, including 98% of manufacturers. The answer seems to be those that are taking a proactive, strategic approach to tackling the problem. For example, a 2019 smart-factories report by the company found that only 14 percent of programmes were successful. We found organizations in general to be inadequately prepared in terms of awareness, governance, protection, detection, and resilience. In this way, they become a vector for adversaries to penetrate IoT and IT networks. In other words, they are lumbering elephants in the crosshairs of big guns – including those of hostile state forces.

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