The Hacker GnosticPlayers Sells His Hacked Data on Dream Market
Who: 8 Different Companies # of Accounts Breached: 93 Million What was affected: A hacker going by the name of Gnosticplayers has put up for sale a third set of hacked databases on a Dark Web marketplace. The biggest name in today’s batch is GfyCat, the famous...
Phishing Email sent to Employee responsible for UConn Health Breach
Who: UConn Health # of Accounts Breached: 326,000 What was affected: An unauthorized third party accessed employee email accounts breaching the privacy of 326,000 patients and others. Of that number, 1,500 could have had their social security numbers exposed, UConn...
Self-Driving Cars Might Kill Auto Insurance As We Know It
Self-Driving Cars Might Kill Auto Insurance As We Know It Dan Peate, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur in Southern California, was thinking of buying a Tesla Model X a few years ago—until he called his insurance company and found out how much his premiums would...
Third Party Vendor breach allowed Virus into CHI Health
Who: CHI Health When it happened: February 13-14, 2019 How it happened: A device brought in by a third-party vendor introduced a virus, also known as malware, into the health system’s network. The virus affected some hospitals and clinics within the healthcare system...
Secret Service Warning: High-Tech Thieves Can Remotely Skim Credit Cards At Gas Pumps
Secret Service Warning: High-Tech Thieves Can Remotely Skim Credit Cards At Gas Pumps Usually when people mention pain at the pump, they are talking about a rise in gas prices. Not Krebs on Security. The website wrote this week about a new warning from the...
Automakers Could Give Police Control Over Your Self-Driving Car
Automakers Could Give Police Control Over Your Self-Driving Car We still have a lot of questions to answer before autonomous vehicles can go mainstream: Who’s at fault if an AV has an accident? Should people need licenses to ride in a self-driving car? How should an...
Malware infects Computer System of Chester County
Who: Chester County Government’s Computer System # of Records Affected: At this time, there is no evidence that county information has been accessed or compromised When it happened: February 20, 2019 What happened: Malware activity was detected on the county’s...
The Uk Is Going Cashless And, Like Most Of The World, Has No Plan For What Happens Next
The UK Is Going Cashless And, Like Most Of The World, Has No Plan For What Happens Next Cash usage is shrinking in Britain faster than in most places, and the debate about what to do about it is getting louder. That’s important because, like just about every country...
Where Has All The Ransomware Gone? Cybercriminals Prefer ‘Cryptojacking’
Where Has All The Ransomware Gone? Cybercriminals Prefer ‘Cryptojacking’ In the world of digital thievery, a business model pivot is apparently underway. Over the past year cybercriminals have shifted their focus from ransomware attacks to so-called...
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