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Driving A Tesla Results In More CO2 – Senate Gets Hit By Insider Hackers – Sen Hassan on NH Today WGIR-AM: [04/29/2019]
Driving A Tesla Results In More CO2 - Senate Gets Hit By Insider Hackers - Sen Hassan on NH Today WGIR-AM: [04/29/2019]On This Episode... Did you know that driving a Tesla results in more CO2 emissions? Craig discussed this with Jack Heath, as well as Senator Hassan's...
International CyberCriminals to Blame for Breach of Citrix internal network
Who: Citrix # of Accounts Breached: What was affected: Business documents When it happened: March 6, 2019 How it happened: "On March 6, 2019, the FBI contacted Citrix to advise they had reason to believe that international cybercriminals gained access to the internal...
Data Breach At Third Party Medical Billing Company Exposes Rehab Patients
Who: Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital # of Accounts Breached: 4,755 What was affected: Private information of patients. When it happened: Around September 25, 2018 How it happened: An unauthorized party got access to the company’s computer system and infected it...
Phishing Attack on Frederick Regional Health System (FRHS) Compromises Hospice Patients
Who: Frederick Regional Health System # of Accounts Breached: What was affected: Patient names, health care companies, health care numbers and Social Security numbers When it happened: Between June 2017 to January 2019 How it happened: An unauthorized person accessed...
Warehousing and Logistics Company Hit With Ransomware
Who: Container World # of Accounts Breached: What was affected: Ransom-seeking cybercriminals successfully breached systems at Container World, a warehousing and logistics company that supplies much of province’s specialty liquor products When it happened: February...
Senior Center Fundraising Thwarted When Data on Servers is Held Ransom
Who: Ballard Northwest Senior Center # of Accounts Breached: The nonprofit center serves 4,000 seniors in Ballard, Magnolia, and Queen Anne, and raises much of the money for all its activities and services itself. What was affected: Servers of the senior center. When...
That Mental Health App Might Share Your Data Without Telling You
That Mental Health App Might Share Your Data Without Telling YouFree apps marketed to people with depression or who want to quit smoking are hemorrhaging user data to third parties like Facebook and Google — but often don’t admit it in their privacy policies, a new...
Amazon Has Been On A Digital Book Burning Spree For Months
Amazon Has Been On A Digital Book Burning Spree For MonthsUnder pressure from left-wing journalists and activists, Amazon is purging right-wing authors from its store, including a book co-authored by English Islam critic and independent commentator Tommy Robinson. The...
ING Bank Unlawfully Transmits Data to Third Party
Who: ING Bank # of Accounts Breached: Almost 20,000 people What was affected: IDs and names of 19,055 individuals and credit reports, address information and phone number of 1,172 sole proprietorships and partnership companies When it happened: March 2, 2019 How it...
Using Cloud Email? Office 365? You’re Not Safe From Phishing Attacks
Using Cloud Email? Office 365? You’re Not Safe From Phishing AttacksOne in every 99 emails is a phishing attack, and a new study shows 25% of those phishing attacks bypass default security measures built into Office 365, researchers reported today. The data comes from...
FBI’s Facial Recognition Programs Under Fire Over Privacy, Accuracy Concerns
FBI’s Facial Recognition Programs Under Fire Over Privacy, Accuracy Concerns The FBI still has not assessed whether its facial recognition systems meet privacy and accuracy standards nearly three years after a congressional watchdog—the Government Accountability...
Wi-Fi Is Not Actually Bad For Your Health, Scientists Say
Wi-Fi Is Not Actually Bad For Your Health, Scientists SayWi-Fi's ubiquity in modern society has prompted a reactionary response among an increasingly vocal minority who claim Wi-Fi signals are hazardous to their health, a condition they call "electromagnetic...
Former Nh Sen. Hassan Aide Stole Gigabytes Of ‘High Value’ Data
Former NH Sen. Hassan Aide Stole Gigabytes Of ‘High Value’ DataA former IT aide to New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan mounted an “extraordinarily extensive data-theft scheme” against the office, the culprit’s plea agreement states. The plot included the...
Driving A Tesla Results In More Co2 Than A Mercedes Diesel Car, Study Finds
Driving A Tesla Results In More CO2 Than A Mercedes Diesel Car, Study Finds A Tesla Model 3 is touted as a zero-emissions car by government regulators, but it actually results in more carbon dioxide than a comparable diesel-powered car, according to a recent study....
GDPR Data Disclosures Hit Gateshead Council
Who: Gateshead Council # of Accounts Breached: 19 breaches What was affected: Private information including personal medical details When it happened: May 2018 - March 2019 How it happened: A council has admitted a series of data breaches, including uploading personal...
Stolen Employee Laptop exposes Patients e-PHI Due to Unencrypted data
Who: Re-Solutions, a division of RSC Insurance Brokerage # of Accounts Breached: 2,088 What was affected: A laptop computer of an employee was stolen on August 23, 2018, and has been found to contain patients’ ePHI When it happened: August 23, 2018 How it happened: On...
Unauthorized Access to Online Trading Firm in New Zealand results in Data
Who: Kathmandu Holdings # of Accounts Breached: Undetermined What was affected: Data breach at Kathmandu’s online trading websites When it happened: Between January 8 - February 12, 2019 How it happened: The company said an unidentified third party gained unauthorized...
Poorly Configured Elsevier Server, Left Access to Data Open
Who: Elsevier # of Accounts Breached: Undetermined What was affected: User email addresses and passwords When it happened: 18 Mar 2019 How it happened: Due to a misconfigured server, a researcher found a constant stream of Elsevier users’ passwords. Outcome: An...
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Samsung Fold Problem – How Much Your Tax Info Sells For – Matt’s Bad Amazon Headphones: AS HEARD ON WGAN: [04-24-19]
Samsung Fold Problem - How Much Your Tax Info Sells For - Matt's Bad Amazon Headphones: AS HEARD ON WGAN: [04-24-19]On This Episode... It's Wednesday morning. Time for the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. Today they talked about the Samsung Galaxy Fold, the fake...
Portable Radiology Service Maintains Unprotected Database and Loses Patient Data
Who: Home Health Radiology Services (HHRS) # of Accounts Breached: Estimated 37,000 people What was affected: Names, date of birth, phone numbers, addresses, diagnoses, notes, and we even saw Social Security Numbers (SSN) When it happened: March 1, 2019 How it...
Phishing Compromised Employee And Allowed Unauthorized Access to Insurance Agency Customers
Who: Hartwig Moss Insurance Agency # of Accounts Breached: 1,100 customers What was affected: Names, birthdates and driver’s license numbers. A “limited medical information” for a “small number of individuals" may have also been accessed. When it happened: March 20,...
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Inside The World Of Fake Amazon Reviews: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [04-23-19]
Inside The World Of Fake Amazon Reviews: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [04-23-19]On This Episode... Craig is on the Jim Polito Show. Today they discussed the phony 5-star reviews in Amazon.Related Articles 5-Star Phonies: Inside The Fake Amazon Review Complex Share This...
PII Exposed from State Agency After Employees Fell Victim to Phishing Attack
Who: Oregon's Department of Human Services (DHS) # of Accounts Breached: More than 350,000 client’s data What was affected: First and last names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, case numbers, and other information. When it happened: January 8, 2019...
Poorly Secured Server Leaked Real Time GPS Data From App
Who: Family Locator App # of Accounts Breached: More than 238,000 users. What was affected: User’s name, email address, profile photo, and their plaintext passwords. When it happened: 20 Mar 2019 How it happened: A popular family tracking app was leaking the...
Rep Delaney Cybersecurity Cabinet Position – What Your Tax Info Is Worth on NH Today WGIR-AM: [04/22/2019]
Rep Delaney Cybersecurity Cabinet Position - What Your Tax Info Is Worth on NH Today WGIR-AM: [04/22/2019] On This Episode... Craig is on with Jack Heath as they discussed presidential candidate Representative Delaney's plans to make some cyber changes in the...
Government Servers in Orange County Encrypted by Ransomware
Who: Orange County Government # of Accounts Breached: Undetermined What was affected: Servers and Network Orange County When it happened: March 2019 How it happened: Orange County located in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area of California has made an official...
CyberAttackers Used Ransomware to Encrypt Surgical Specialist Patient Data
Who: Columbia Surgical Specialists of Spokane # of Accounts Breached: 400,000 When it happened: January 9, 2019 What was affected: Patient names and, potentially, drivers’ license, social security numbers, and other protected health information. How it happened: The...
Email System at Navicent Health targeted in Cyber Attack
Who: Navicent Health When: 15 Mar 2019 # of records involved: 270,000 What happened: Navicent Health was the victim of a cyber attack that targeted its email system last July.How did it happen: Navicent Health was the victim of a cyber attack, in which an unauthorized...
Ransomware Attack Compromises Customer PHI at Direct Scripts
Who: Direct Scripts When: 13 Mar 2019 # of records involved: 9,319 What happened: Direct Scripts discovered that it was the victim of a ransomware attack that affected customers’ records. How did it happen: This ransomware attack locked the server that stored Direct...
Compromised Employee Email at MN Behavioral Health Center Allows Unauthorized Access
Who: Human Development Center When: 22 Mar 2019 # of records involved: Undetermined What happened: An employee’s email account was compromised and accessed by individuals outside HDC How did it happen: During a routine review of email logs on Jan. 25, it was...