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Third Party Research and Legal Outsourcing Services Responsible for Leaky Legal Database
Who: Lex Machina or LexVisio When: 15 Mar 2019 # of records involved: 257,287 legal documents What happened: A database containing 257,287 legal documents, with some marked as "not designated for publication," was left exposed on the public internet without a...
Hacker Group Has Been Hijacking Dns Traffic On D-Link Routers For Three Months
Hacker Group Has Been Hijacking DNS Traffic On D-Link Routers For Three Months For the past three months, a cybercrime group has been hacking into home routers --mostly D-Link models-- to change DNS server settings and hijack traffic meant for legitimate sites and...
Nyc Wireless Network Down Due To Y2k-Like Software Bug
NYC Wireless Network Down Due To Y2K-Like Software BugCity Hall’ s tech czar ignored a federal warning about a looming, Y2K-like software bug last year — allowing a crash of the city’s official wireless network that has been down since the weekend, sources told The...
Here’s How Much Your Tax Info Is Worth On The Dark Web
Here's How Much Your Tax Info Is Worth On The Dark WebAs Americans across the U.S. prepare to file their tax returns and pay any money owing by Monday’s deadline, cybercriminals have been patiently awaiting their opportunity to steal from them. Not only are tax forms...
5-Star Phonies: Inside The Fake Amazon Review Complex
5-Star Phonies: Inside The Fake Amazon Review Complex“Isn’t this illegal?” I found myself typing one Tuesday night at 1:15 AM. I was chatting with Lien Xi, an Amazon seller from Guangzhou, China, I’d met several minutes before in a private Facebook group. She’d...
Indian Political Parties Charge That IT Grid Officials Stole or Manipulated Data
Who: ITGrids When: 4 Mar 2019 # of records involved: The Aadhaar details of as many as 7.82 crore Indians have been found in possession of IT Grids Pvt. Ltd. What happened: Four company officials are believed to have stolen the data of about 3.5 crore people of Andhra...
Millions of Customer Records of e-Commerce giant Gearbest Exposed
Who: Gearbest When: 15 Mar 2019 # of records involved: 1.5 Million Customer Records What happened: An unsecured Elasticsearch server exposed information and orders of millions of its customers. How did it happen: The server was not protected with a password and anyone...
Unsecured Database of Third Party Vendor allows Access to Spanish Gym Franchises
Who: VIVA GYM When: 30 Mar 2019 # of records involved: 6,608 What happened: A passwordless MongoDB database that was exposing sensitive information of VivaGym job candidates and other business related data. How did it happen: At the moment of the discovery, the...
Free Movie Streaming Site Database Accessible to Public
Who: Kanopy When: 22 Mar 2019 # of records involved: 26 to 40 Million Log Lines per day What happened: An unprotected weblog database belonging to a free movie streaming site accessible to the public without authentication of any kind. How did it happen: The...
Our Virtual world – Data Cars Are Collecting – The Truth About Amazon Alexa Monitoring: AS HEARD ON WGAN: [04-17-19]
Our Virtual world - Data Cars Are Collecting - The Truth About Amazon Alexa Monitoring: AS HEARD ON WGAN: [04-17-19] On This Episode... Are we living in a virtual world? Is Amazon spying on us? Is your car watching you? Find out more as Craig discusses these topics...
Employee Snoops through Patient Records at Canadian Regional Hospital
Who: Nanaimo Regional General Hospital When: 26 Mar 2019 # of records involved: 485 Medical Files What happened: A employee has been linked to a privacy breach at Nanaimo Regional General HospitalHow did it happen: Unusual activity was detected by Island Health’s...
Successful Highly Sophisticated Phishing Attack Hit California School District
Who: Carmel Unified School District When:15 Mar 2019 # of records involved: Several hundred employees What happened: Unauthorized access to some email accounts within the district. How did it happen: A successful highly sophisticated phishing attack and difficult to...
Living In A Simulation: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [04-16-19]
Living In A Simulation: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [04-16-19] On This Episode...Are we living in a simulation? Craig is on the Jim Polito show this Tuesday morning as they discuss this possibility. Related Articles Are We Living In A Simulation? This MIT Scientist Says...
Trillion Dollar Markets – Amazon Workers Listening – China Selling Tyranny on NH Today WGIR-AM: [04/15/2019]
Trillion Dollar Markets - Amazon Workers Listening - China Selling Tyranny on NH Today WGIR-AM: [04/15/2019]On This Episode... Craig is on with Mr. Jack Heath discussing China's selling high tech software and hardware to monitor citizens to Latin America. They also...
Data Breach against AZ Medicaid Agency
Who: Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System When: 11 Mar 2019 # of records involved: 3,100 individuals What happened: Thousands of Arizonans were affected by a data breach earlier this year that targeted the state’s Medicaid agency. How did it happen: An internal...
MongoDB database Leaks Business Intelligence Data
Who: Verifications.io Website When: 7 Mar 2019 # of records involved: 809 million records What happened: Security researchers Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered an unprotected, publicly accessible MongoDB database containing 150 gigabytes of detailed, plaintext...
Ransomware Attacks Taos Public Schools
Who: Taos schools When: 21 Mar 2019 # of records involved: undetermined What happened: A ransomware attack that knocked out the district's digital services How did it happen: Taos Schools suffered a cyber attack, with hackers demanding $5,000 in cash as ransom for the...
Ransomware encrypts 50,000 Patient Records at Delaware Guidance Service Center
Who: Delaware Guidance Services for Children and Youth When: 13 Mar 2019 # of records involved: 50,000 What happened: Ransomware attack on Delaware Guidance Services for Children and Youth How did it happen: The types of data in the files that were encrypted by the...
Widespread Computer Virus Shuts Lynn MA Public School Networks
Who: Lynn Public Schools When: 21 Mar 2019 # of records involved: undetermined What happened: A widespread computer virus has shut down the internet in the Lynn Public School System in Massachusetts. How did it happen: The administration currently has no idea where or...
New and Rarely Seen Ransomware Hampers Norsk Hydro Aluminum Production
Who: Norsk Hydro When: 19 Mar 2019 # of records involved: undetermined What happened: One of the latest examples of the damage hackers can cause to business and industry occurred at Norsk Hydro one of the world’s largest aluminum producers who fell victim to a cyber...
Your Car Is Watching You. Who Owns The Data?
Your Car Is Watching You. Who Owns The Data? If you’re driving a late model car or truck, chances are that the vehicle is mostly computers on wheels, collecting and wirelessly transmitting vast quantities of data to the car manufacturer not just on vehicle performance...
3 Technologies That Could Create Trillion-Dollar Markets Over The Next Decade
3 Technologies That Could Create Trillion-Dollar Markets Over The Next Decade Go back to the typical household in 1950, and you would see much that you would recognize: washing machines, vacuum cleaners, cars, TVs. But go back 50 years earlier, to 1900, and most of us...
Sister of Ex-Girlfriend targeted in Sex-Tortion Plot
Who: Suspect's ex-girlfriend Sister was Victim When: 14 Mar 2019 # of records involved: What happened: A computer hacker was paid to target a University of Central Florida student's Snapchat account and extort her for nude photos. How did it happen: John Thompson paid...
Are We Living In A Simulation? This Mit Scientist Says It’s More Likely Than Not
Are We Living In A Simulation? This MIT Scientist Says It’s More Likely Than Not What if I told you that physical reality is an illusion and we all live in a computer simulation? That hypothesis, famously probed in the 1999 film The Matrix, is the subject of a new...
China Selling High-Tech Tyranny To Latin America, Stoking US Concern
China Selling High-Tech Tyranny To Latin America, Stoking US ConcernChina is distributing intrusive tools of surveillance and social control throughout Latin America to “surround the United States” with potential threats, warns a top senator. “China's goal is to...
Third Party Vendor Responsible for Online Availability of Singapore Blood Donor Database
Who: Secur Solutions Group /HSA/Singapore National Blood Bank When: 13 March 2019 # of records involved: 800,000 Blood Donors What happened: The personal information of more than 800,000 people who have donated or registered to donate blood in Singapore since 1986 was...
Rise Of The ‘Splinternet’: Experts Warn The World Wide Web Will Break Up And Fragment As Governments Set Their Own Rules To Filter And Restrict Content
Rise Of The 'Splinternet': Experts Warn The World Wide Web Will Break Up And Fragment As Governments Set Their Own Rules To Filter And Restrict ContentDreams for a connected global internet are increasingly threatened by regulations being brought in by governments...
Mysterious Safety-Tampering Malware Infects A Second Critical Infrastructure Site
Mysterious Safety-Tampering Malware Infects A Second Critical Infrastructure SiteSixteen months ago, researchers reported an unsettling escalation in hacks targeting power plants, gas refineries, and other types of critical infrastructure. Attackers who may have been...
Amazon Workers Are Listening To What You Tell Alexa
Amazon Workers Are Listening To What You Tell AlexaTens of millions of people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia. Millions more are reluctant to invite the devices and their powerful microphones into their homes...
Maritime Research at Universities Under Attack by Chinese Hackers
Who: 27 Universities WorldWide When: 5 March 2019 # of records involved: Targeted 27 Universities World Wide What happened: Chinese hackers looking to steal maritime military technology and secrets. How did it happen: The cyber attacks were conducted via phishing...