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Community Housing Agency Breached Files Revealed as Part of Manslaughter Trial
Who: Unity Housing # of Accounts Breached: 6,385 files What was affected: 6,385 files — including housing agency documents, Bedard's own cover letter and resumé, and a copy of the movie Gone Girl. When it happened: 2016 How it happened: Thousands of potentially...
Saudi Ships Attacked – Brain Scans Reveal A Pokemon Region on NH Today WGIR-AM: [05/13/2019]
Saudi Ships Attacked - Brain Scans Reveal A Pokemon Region on NH Today WGIR-AM: [05/13/2019]On This Episode... Craig is on the Auto Fair listener lines with Jack Heath. Today they discussed the Pokemon region in the brain as well as what's going on in the Middle...
Democrat Senator Office Computers Breached by Keylogging Device
Who: New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan # of Accounts Breached: Undetermined - Six Staff Computers What was affected: - dozens of usernames and passwords belonging to Senate employees- tens of thousands of emails and internal documents- credit card...
City of Tallahassee Payroll Affected By Hack On Out-of-State, Third-Party Vendor Payroll Service
Who: City of Tallahassee # of Accounts Breached: undetermined What was affected: $498,000 payroll money When it happened: April 3, 2019 How it happened: Almost half a million dollars was diverted out of the city of Tallahassee’s employee payroll Wednesday after a...
Confidential Information Accidently Released by Maine Hospital
Who: Acadia Hospital # of Records/People Affected: 300 Patients When: 18 April 2019 What happened: A communications official at Northern Light Acadia Hospital in Bangor mistakenly emailed the confidential names of 300 patients. How Did it happen: The release was an...
Taxpayer Information Stolen From Employee
Who: The United Way of the Big Bend # of Records/People Affected: 64 Taxpayers When: 19 April 2019 What happened: A data security breach that occurred when taxpayer information was stolen from an employee in March. How Did it happen: The organization says that 64...
Unusual Activity on Employee Email Account Unveils Unauthorized Access of PHI
Who: Partners for Quality, Inc. # of Records/People Affected: When: 19 April 2019 What happened: PFQ became aware of unusual activity relating to certain employee email accounts. How Did it happen: On April 15, 2019, PFQ confirmed that the email accounts subject to...
Baltimore City Hall Computer Network Infected With Ransomware Virus, Officials Say
Baltimore City Hall Computer Network Infected With Ransomware Virus, Officials Say Baltimore City Hall government servers have been infected by a ransomware virus that government officials said is spreading throughout their network. Mayor Jack Young released a...
What It’s Like In A Scam Call Center
What It's Like In A Scam Call CenterJim Browning got a look into a Kolkata call center via one of the scammers' insecure machines: "You're looking at the webcam of a scammer named Deva ██████. He's currently uploading the phone numbers of people who will be his next...
Cybersecurity Breaches Are Your Fault – Can’t Make Insurance Claim – Google’s New Automatic Feature – Facebook Is Government Protected Monopoly and more Today on TTWCP Radio Show: TTWCP [05-11-19]
Cybersecurity Breaches Are Your Fault - Can't Make Insurance Claim - Google's New Automatic Feature - Facebook Is Government Protected Monopoly and more Today on TTWCP Radio Show: TTWCP [05-11-19]On This Episode... What do Insurance Companies say about Cyber Attacks?...
CPA Has Information Released Through Third Party File Sharing
Who: LD Evans, CPA # of Records/People Affected: When: 16 April 2019 What happened: Information released by unauthorized access by third-party file sharing service How Did it happen: LD Evans learned from Citrix that individuals’ personal information may have been...
‘Too much funding going into cybersecurity today’: hacker turned CEO
'Too much funding going into cybersecurity today': hacker turned CEOA hacker turned CEO says corporations are pouring too much money into cybersecurity and they are often too slow to realize that some of their biggest vulnerabilities are the easiest ones to protect....
Facebook Is A Government-Protected Monopoly
Facebook Is A Government-Protected Monopoly In 1954, traveling milkshake-mixer salesman Ray Kroc visited a hamburger stand designed and managed by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald. He was impressed. Freshly cooked hamburgers were delivered to customers based on...
Brain Scans Reveal A ‘Pokémon Region’ In Adults Who Played As Kids
Brain Scans Reveal A ‘Pokémon Region’ In Adults Who Played As KidsBy scanning the brains of adults who played Pokémon as kids, researchers learned that this group of people have a brain region that responds more to the cartoon characters than to other pictures. More...
Ohio Medicaid Recipients Information Leaked Due Computer Error
Who: Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) # of Records/People Affected: 1000When: 5 April 2019 What happened: Computer error led to inadvertent information leak. How Did it happen: Ohio Benefits reportedly supports certain ODJFS and Medicaid programs and...
City Computers Brought Down By Ransomware
Who: City of Greenville, North Carolina # of Records/People Affected: Undetermined When: 11 April 2019 What happened: Greenville, N.C., has effectively been knocked offline by a ransomware attack. How Did it happen: The city IT department had to shut down the majority...
New Cybersecurity Report Warns CIOs — ‘If You’re Breached Or Hacked, It’s Your Own Fault’
New Cybersecurity Report Warns CIOs -- 'If You're Breached Or Hacked, It's Your Own Fault'"For all the focus and investment in cybersecurity, the majority of businesses in the U.S. and U.K. are still leaving their doors wide open to attacks. Attacks that can...
Apple’s 2FA Might Be A Nuisance (But You Need To Turn It On Anyway)
Apple’s 2FA Might Be A Nuisance (But You Need To Turn It On Anyway)Two-factor authentication (2FA) is one of the best ways to protect your internet accounts. With 2FA, each time you attempt to sign into an account, you’ll enter your password and then you’ll receive a...
Google Confirms It Will Automatically Delete Your Data — What You Need To Know
Google Confirms It Will Automatically Delete Your Data -- What You Need To Know Ahead of the annual Google I/O developer festival opening its doors on Tuesday, Google has already made one major announcement: it will soon start deleting your data automatically. Writing...
Pain Institute Falls Victim to Unauthorized Access through EMR System
Who: Gulf Coast Pain Consultants, dba Clearway Pain Solutions Institute # of Records/People Affected: 35,000 patients When: 18 April 2019 What happened: EMR system has been accessed by an unauthorized individual. How Did it happen: The individual accessed a range of...
Massachusetts Hospital falls Victim to Phishing Attack
Who: Baystate Health of Springfield # of Records/People Affected: 12,000 When: 8 April 2019 What happened: Data breach exposed information about some 12,000 patients. How Did it happen: A phishing incident resulted in unauthorized access to the email accounts of...
Exposed Unsecured Health Department Medical Database of Northern India Government
Who: Department of Medical, Health and Family Welfare of a state in northern India. # of Accounts Breached: More than 12.5 million What was affected: The database was eventually secured with the help of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) of India, but the...
Ransomware Attack Shutsdown Michigan County Government
Who: Genesee County # of Accounts Breached: undetermined What has affected: Genesee County, Michigan was hit with a ransomware attack When it happened: April 2, 2019 How it happened: They say a virus found its way into their system and held data Tuesday, demanding...
Unauthorized Access to Georgia Tech Database exposes 1.3 Million
Who: Georgia Tech # of Accounts Breached: 1.3 millionWhat was affected: Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and birth dates. When it happened: Late March 2019 How it happened: Georgia Tech said its database was accessed by an "unknown outside entity" in late...
New Space Plane – Airport Face Scanning: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [05-07-19]
New Space Plane - Airport Face Scanning: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [05-07-19]On This Episode... Craig is on the Jim Polito show. Today they talked about the Space Plane that could take you from NYC to London in less than an hour. They also talked about the facial recognition...
Northwestern Rehab Hospital Data Breached by Unauthorized Access
Who: Rehabilitation Hospital of Northwest Ohio # of Records/People Affected: Undisclosed number When: 10 April 2019 What happened: Patients had their personal data compromised after “unauthorized access” to employee email accounts occurred. How Did it happen: There...
Dell Computers come pre-loaded with 100% vulnerability
Many computers come pre-installed with software or applications that can make your life easier. I have warned you before about some of these types of ‘bloatware’ and why you might want to be wary of it. The idea behind Dells’ SupportAssist app was to warn you about...
Facebook Fails to Protect Your Data Collected by Partner Apps, Yet Again
Who: Facebook # of Records/People Affected: Hundreds of Miliions When: 3 April, 2019 What happened: Unprotected Facebook user data sitting on Amazon’s servers How Did it happen: Two Facebook app developers uploaded the data sets to Amazon’s cloud system. This is just...
Fine Arts in Atlanta Brought Down by Security Breach
Who: Woodruff Arts Center # of Records/People Affected: Undetermined When: 26 April 2019 What happened: A security breach after an unauthorized third party caused a massive network outage, affecting many of the center's operations and systems. How Did it happen: The...
Facebook’s Troubles on NH Today WGIR-AM: [05/06/2019]
Facebook's Troubles on NH Today WGIR-AM: [05/06/2019]On This Episode...How is a world class trainer using tech and social media to help people achieve their goals? Listen in as I talk with Oonagh Duncan about her business Fit Feels Good. Congrats to Ajit Pai and...