Title: NJ Students Gain Access to School Computers
Who: Elizabeth NJ Public School System When: Mar 22, 2019 # of records involved: Limited What happened: Several high school students are in hot water after they were able to log into their schools’ computer systems to change grades and attendance records. How did it...
CT Substance Abuse Counselor Stole Client Data for Personal Use
Who: An Unidentified Substance Use Disorder Treatment Center in North Haven, CT When: 19 March 2019 # of records involved: Limited number What happened: An employee of a substance use disorder treatment center in North Haven who is accused of stealing patients’...
Third Party Vendors Store Facebook Data on Unencrypted AWS Server
Who: Facebook When: April 3, 2019 # of records involved: 540 Million records What happened: Two third-party companies that had collected Facebook data on their own servers. How did it happen: Two Amazon cloud servers storing over 540 million Facebook-related records...
Third Party EMR Vendor Experiences Massive Breach
Who: Meditab Software Inc. and MedPharm Services When: Mar 19, 2019 # of records involved: 6,000,000 Medical records of 2,200 healthcare hospitals, pharmacies, and doctors offices) What happened: Meditab provides the electronic medical record (EMR) and practice...
Windows 10 April 2019 Update Introduces A New Windows Update Policy
Windows 10 April 2019 Update Introduces A New Windows Update Policy The upcoming Windows 10 April 2019 Update, also known as version 1903 or 19H1, will come with a new Windows Update policy that will let admins “specify deadlines for automatic updates and restarts.”...
Silence Of The Wans: Fbi Ddos-For-Hire Takedowns Slash Web Flood Attacks ‘By 11%’
Silence Of The Wans: FBI DDoS-For-Hire Takedowns Slash Web Flood Attacks ‘By 11%’ The FBI’s takedown of a group of prolific DDoS-for-hire websites has single-handedly helped to drop attack levels globally. This is according to a report (registration...
Most IT And Security Professionals Feel Vulnerable To Insider Threats
Most IT And Security Professionals Feel Vulnerable To Insider Threats 91 percent of IT and security professionals feel vulnerable to insider threats, and 75 percent believe the biggest risks lie in cloud applications like popular file storage and email solutions such...
The US Has Stepped Up Its Tax Game. You Will Want To Read This If You’re Selling Online
The US Has Stepped Up Its Tax Game. You Will Want To Read This If You’re Selling Online No one thinks that sales tax in the U.S. is a problem unless they are operating in the U.S. But a Supreme Court case last year between Wayfair, the online furniture and home...
Cloud Adoption On The Rise, It Pros Unsure Of Risk
Cloud Adoption On The Rise, IT Pros Unsure Of Risk Even though misconfigurations in public clouds create risks to enterprise security, a new study found that more than half of IT professionals do not really understand the risks inherent in public cloud...
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