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Use Your Electronic Devices and Still Get A Restful Sleep
If you are like me, you work from the time you get up until you go to bed and much of that work involves looking at a screen, be it a desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone or when you get a chance to relax, the television. According to research conducted by the...
Intermittent Fasting – Microsoft Warning About Patches – Israel Responded To Hacking By Bombing: AS HEARD ON WGAN: [05-22-19]: AS HEARD ON -The WGAN Morning News
Intermittent Fasting - Microsoft Warning About Patches - Israel Responded To Hacking By Bombing: AS HEARD ON WGAN: [05-22-19]On This Episode... Craig is in the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. This morning, they talked about a lot of things. Craig discussed the...
Dangers Of Medical Equipment – Why Huawei Is In Trouble: AS HE Read more at http://cptt.libsyn.com/#CqAVZ3Rb2GF5gtWC.99
Dangers Of Medical Equipment – Why Huawei Is In Trouble:On This Episode... Craig is on with Jim Polito. Today they discussed hackers getting into medical devices and endangering people. They also talked about Huawei and the problems they are facing.Related Articles...
Sophos tells users to roll back Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday run if they want PC to boot
Sophos tells users to roll back Microsoft's Patch Tuesday run if they want PC to boot British security software co. Sophos has advised its customers to uninstall Microsoft's most recent Patch Tuesday run – the same patches that protect servers against the latest Intel...
Phishing Scam resulted in The Release of Personal Health Information
Who: Palmetto Health # of Accounts Breached: 23,811 PatientsWhat was affected: Personal Health Information When it happened: November 2018 How it happened: Palmetto Health is notifying individuals of an email phishing incident that resulted in unauthorized access to...
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Ring Doorbells Can Save Lives – Microsoft Monster Security Bug – Amazon Expanding Freight on NH Today WGIR-AM: [05/20/2019]
Ring Doorbells Can Save Lives - Microsoft Monster Security Bug - Amazon Expanding Freight on NH Today WGIR-AM: [05/20/2019]On This Episode... Craig is on with Jack Heath this Monday morning. Today they talked about the Fort Worth kidnapping and how the Ring doorbells...
HawksShop.com Compromised by Card Skimming Malware
Who: Atlanta Hawks’ online shop # of Accounts Breached: undetermined What was affected: Customers names, addresses and payment card numbers. When it happened: Started on June 6, 2017 How it happened: Cybercriminals using Magecart card-skimming code attacked the online...
Hacker Revealed Hacking Tools and Operations Carried Out By Iran’s Elite Cyber-Espionage Units
Who: Iran's elite cyber-espionage units, known as APT34, Oilrig, or HelixKitten. # of Accounts Breached: 66 victims What was affected: Usernames and password combos to internal network servers info and user IPs. When it happened: April 17, 2019 How it happened: In an...
KPMG Mexico responsible unsecured database that resulted in Data Leak
Who: KPMG Mexico # of Accounts Breached: Employees at 41 of KPMG Mexico’s clients. What was affected: Confidential payroll data of employees. When it happened: February 2019 How it happened: According to a seven-page confidential report, dated Feb. 22, KPMG Mexico...
Personal Client Information Stolen from WRHA
Who: Winnipeg Regional Health Authority # of Accounts Breached: 75 What was affected: Names and ward locations of clients When it happened: March 7, 2019 How it happened: The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority says a bag was stolen last month containing the personal...
Hospitals Push Device Makers To Improve Security Following Cyberattacks
Hospitals Push Device Makers To Improve Security Following CyberattacksAs the kinds of cyber attacks companies and other businesses are experiencing expand, we are seeing the actual victims, as well as potential ones of these attacks, step up their efforts to protect...
Dr. Office Patient Information Held For Ransom after Cyber Breach Incident
Who: Ronald Snyder, M.D. # of Accounts Breached: 24,000 What was affected: Medical billing information, which may include: name, address, date of birth, gender, co-pay amount, patient status, employment status, telephone number, email address, and certain patients’...
Jeff Bezos Personally Dumps A Truckload Of Dirt On Fedex’s Future
Jeff Bezos Personally Dumps A Truckload Of Dirt On Fedex’s Future Amazon wants to be plenty of things, the most predictable of which is its ambition to control America’s shipping backbone. The company’s efforts to bring users whatever they desire in 24 hours requires...
Compromised Email Account Revealed PII of DHS Personnel and Clients
Who: Department of Human Services - Minnesota # of Accounts Breached: 11,000 What was affected: The compromised e-mail account contained a wide range of personal information about DHS clients, employees and applicants, including first and last names, dates of birth,...
White House Cracks Down On Huawei Equipment Sales With Executive Order
White House Cracks Down On Huawei Equipment Sales With Executive Order After months of speculation, President Trump has signed an executive order giving the federal government the power to block US companies from buying foreign-made telecommunications equipment deemed...
Israel Bombed Cyber Hackers (That Is Historic, For Many Reasons)
Israel Bombed Cyber Hackers (That Is Historic, For Many Reasons) Between the fake Nigerian princes and the endless computer passwords we need to create (one uppercase and lowercase letter, please), we have all wanted to bomb the hackers. Last weekend, Israel did just...
Antivirus Makers Confirm—And Deny—Getting Breached By Hackers Looking To Sell Stolen Data
Antivirus Makers Confirm—And Deny—Getting Breached By Hackers Looking To Sell Stolen Data Symantec and Trend Micro are among the list of leading antivirus companies that a group of Russian-speaking hackers allege to have compromised, Gizmodo has learned. It remains...
Security Breach Suffered By Credit Bureau Equifax Has Cost Them $1.4+ Billion
Security Breach Suffered By Credit Bureau Equifax Has Cost Them $1.4+ Billion In 2017 Equifax confirmed it has suffered a massive data breach, cyber criminals stole sensitive personal records of 145 million belonging to US citizens and hundreds of thousands Canada and...
Enabling Full Mitigation Against Intel Cpu Attacks Causes Up To 40 Percent Performance Penalty
Enabling Full Mitigation Against Intel Cpu Attacks Causes Up To 40 Percent Performance PenaltyFollowing the announcement of new speculative execution exploits that target Intel CPU architecture, Apple has posted a new document on its website that explains how...
Microsoft Warns Of A Monster Computer Bug, In A Week Of Them
Microsoft Warns Of A Monster Computer Bug, In A Week Of Them Microsoft Corp. took the unusual step of warning that a computer bug it has now patched could be used by a cyber weapon similar to the WannaCry worm, which spread across the globe two years ago. The bug is...
Microfiche Data Lost During Move
Who: BC Pension Corporation # of Accounts Breached: 8,000 What happened: A box of microfiche the size of a Kleenex box disappeared during a recent office move in Victoria When it happened: January 28, 2019 How it happened: The BC Pension Corporation revealed in a...
County Government Crippled by Ransomware Attack
Who: Garfield County # of Accounts Breached: Undetermined What happened: A ransomware attack hit Garfield County’s computer systems, crippling them for weeks When it happened: 11 April 2019 How it happened: A ransomware attack hit Garfield County’s computer systems,...
Phishing Attack Against Baystate Health
Who: Baystate Health of Springfield # of Accounts Breached: About 12,000 patients What happened: A phishing incident resulted in unauthorized access to the email accounts of several employees When it happened: Between Feb. 7 and March 7. How it happened: A phishing...
Cyber Hackers Attempted to Break Into Lawmakers Computer Network
Who: Parliament House (Australia) # of Accounts Breached: Undetermined What happened: Hackers attempted to break into its computer network, which includes lawmakers’ email archives When it happened: February 2019 How it happened: Australian Signals Directorate chief...
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Risks Of Upgrading Windows – Pokemon Changed Our Brains – New Google Privacy Feature Coming: AS HEARD ON WGAN: [05-15-19]
Risks Of Upgrading Windows - Pokemon Changed Our Brains - New Google Privacy Feature Coming: AS HEARD ON WGAN: [05-15-19]On This Episode... It's 7:38 on a Wednesday, Craig is on with Ken and Matt. Today Craig gave Ken some instructions on how to upgrade his Windows...
Critical Microsoft Vulnerabilities
Our friends at Microsoft have another severe vulnerability that could bring the internet to its knees. It is essential that you STOP and PATCH your systems immediately! It does not require the user to do anything to begin an exploit from using this vulnerability to...
Welch backs legislation to crack down on robocalls
Welch Backs LegislationTo Crack Down On RobocallsBURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) Vermont Congressman Peter Welch is backing legislation to crack down on unwanted robocalls. Welch says that in 2018, Americans received 47 billion robocalls, a 64 percent increase since 2016.The...
Email Message Accidentally Exposes of Patient Information
Who: University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital # of Accounts Breached: About 840 patients What was affected: An employee emailed a message to a group of patients, inadvertently allowing the recipients to see each other's email addresses When it...
Connected CounterTop Garden E-Commerce Site Hacked
Who: AeroGrow # of Accounts Breached: Undetermined What was affected: Credit card number, expiration date, and card verification value — also known as a security code When it happened: Between October 29, 2018, and March 4, 2019 How it happened: On March 4, 2019,...
Those Annoying Robocalls
Those Annoying RobocallsThe top consumer complaint to the FCC is unwanted, illegal and spoofed robocalls. Complaints are on the rise from consumers whose numbers are being spoofed or whose calls are being mistakenly blocked or labeled as a possible scam call by a...