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story today is about a hacked home computer of an engineer, which led to the second last pass data breach. Last pass a password management company experienced two data breaches last year. It is now revealed that the same threat actor was responsible for both of them. In the first breach, the threat actor was able to access on demand cloud-based development and source code repositories. As well as internet scripts and secrets.
In the second breach, the threat actor was able to target a senior dev ops engineer and install a key logger, which was used to bypass and gain access to cloud backups. Last pass has taken several steps to strengthen their security and has millions of users, and over a hundred thousand businesses as customers. So, if you were a last pass customer, you should have received an email with the notice as to the steps to take, to help protect your account. If you're still using last pass.
Our next story. Education accounts for 7.3% of cybersecurity incidents across industries in 2022, which is up from 2.8%, which had occurred in 2021. This story comes from campus technology.com website. In the article there in summary, told readers that iBM Security's X-Force threat intelligence index for 2023 reported that among the 10 industries analyzed education made a significant jump in cyber security incidents. From 2.8% in 2021. to 7.3% in 2022.
Common threads, including fishing backdoor activity, extortion, and hactivism slash malware. IBM security gave recommendations such as managing data assets, acting on received threat intelligence, and having a reliable incident response vendor on retainer. The highest number of attacks were reported in Asia Pacific. Followed by North America and Latin America. Next story for you today. March 9th is being called the national slam the scam day by the social security administration.
And here's what they want you to know. On, national slam the scam day and throughout the year, they will give you the tools to recognize social security related scams, and step scammers from stealing your money and personal information. Share scam information with your loved ones. In the slam the scam event. You can find more@ssa.gov, their website. How to recognize the four basic signs of a scam. Number one.
Scammers pretend to be from a familiar organization or agency like the social security administration. They may email attachments with, official looking logos, seals, signatures, or pictures of employee credentials. Number two. Scammers mention a problem or a prize. They may say your social security number was involved in a crime or ask for personal information to process a benefit increase, as examples. Number three. Scammers pressure you to act immediately.
They may threaten you with a arrest or legal action. Again, a scam number four. Scammers tell you to pay using a gift card, prepaid debit card, cryptocurrency, wire or money transfer, or by mailing cash. Don't do it. They may also tell you to transfer your money to a safe account. Again, don't do it. Ignore scammers and report criminal behavior. Report social security related scams to the social security administration office of the inspector general.
And again, you can find out more at the website, ssa.gov. This week's tech tip. If you have an apple watch and you need to restart it because your watch isn't working, right, you may need to restart it. To do this, make sure the apple watch is off your charger. First step. Then press and hold the side button until some sliders appear. Then you're going to tap the round power button in the top, right corner of the screen. A power off button will show up.
Then you're going to slide right to turn off your apple watch. And to turn it back on, press and hold the side button until you see the apple logo. If restarting doesn't work. Well, you can try to force restart it by holding down the side button and the circle button on the side at the same time until you see the apple logo. This might take about 10 seconds, but important note, don't do this if an update is being installed on the apple watch.
And again, you can find out more, go to support.apple.com for this information about restarting your apple watch and other apple tips. And that's a quick look at the tech landscape for this week from tech brewed. Again, I'm your host, Greg Doig. I hope you stop by, listen to some future episodes, take care.