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Unauthorized Access to Employee Email at Dental Insurance Company Responsible for PHI Breach
Who: Superior Dental Care (SDC) When: Reported 26 March 2019 # of records involved: 38,260 patients What happened: Hack involving an employee’s email account that held protected health information How did it happen: Superior Dental Care, an Ohio dental insurance...
SecurityThing – Dangers Of Using Box Dropbox: [04/11/2019]
SecurityThing - Dangers Of Using Box Dropbox: [04/11/2019]On This Episode... Craig is back with another Security Thing. Today, he talks about the dangers of using Box, Dropbox, and other cloud storage services.Related Articles The End Of Net Neutrality Has Doubled Our...
Hackers target Chinese State targeted Using Ransomware
Who: Chinese State When: 11 March 2019 # of records involved: What happened: The National Network and Information Security Information Center has identified overseas hackers targeting the websites of government departments with emails containing ransomware. How did it...
Hackers breach e-Ticketing systems at 8 Major Airlines
Who: E-ticketing systems at Eight Airlines When: Reported 12 Mar 2019 # of records involved: undetermined What happened: Hackers intercept passengers Personally Identifiable Information (PII) using website link vulnerability. How did it happen: 8 major airlines...
Internet Sales About To Be Taxed – Dangers Of Spam: AS HEARD ON WGAN: [04-10-19]
Internet Sales About To Be Taxed - Dangers Of Spam: AS HEARD ON WGAN: [04-10-19] On This Episode... Craig is on the WGAN Morning News. This morning they talked about the dangers of spam, spear phishing, and sextortion emails. They also talked about the Supreme Court...
Third Party Vendor Responsible for Release of Zoll’s Patients Information
Who: ZOLL Medical Corporation When: Reported 18 March 2019 # of records involved: 277,319 What happened: ZOLL discovered that some email archived by an unnamed third-party service provider been exposed during a server migration. How did it happen: Third-party service...
Publicly Accessible BOX folders leave Companies Vulnerable to Hackers
Who: 90 Major tech companies and Corporate Giants When: 8 Mar 2019 # of records involved: Undetermined What happened: Major tech companies and Corporate giants left data inadvertently exposed. How did it happen: Dozens of companies inadvertently leaking sensitive...
Why Hackers Hack – Sextortion On The Rise And What To Do About It: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [04-09-19]
Why Hackers Hack - Sextortion On The Rise And What To Do About It: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [04-09-19]On This Episode... Craig is on with Jim Polito this morning. They talked about sextortion scams being circulated in the emails and about passwords and password managers you...
Ransomware Infects Records at Plastic Surgery and Skin Clinics
Who: Maffi Clinics When: 15 Mar 2019 # of records involved:10,500 Patient Records What happened: Maffi Clinics, Arizona, have revealed that a ransomware attack on their servers compromised the files of nearly 10,500 patients. How did it happen: Maffi Clinics, a...
Large Data Breach affects Chicago Hospital Chain
Who: RUSH Hospitals and Medical Centers When: 4 March 2019 # of records involved: 45,000 Patients What happened: The personal information of about 45,000 Rush patients may have been compromised in a data breach How did it happen: The exposed data may include names,...
School Department transfers Teacher PII Data to Testing Company
Who: Worcester School Department When: 8 Mar 2019 # of records involved: 2000 teachers What happened: The district’s IT department opted to use the last four digits of employees’ Social Security numbers as a password for their entry to a portal run by a testing...
Unencrypted and Unauthenticated Implantable Medical Devices Hackable
Who: Medtronic When: 21 March 2019 # of records involved: What happened: Critical flaw lets hackers control lifesaving devices implanted inside patients How did it happen: The federal government on Thursday warned of a serious flaw in Medtronic cardio defibrillators...
Title: NJ Students Gain Access to School Computers
Who: Elizabeth NJ Public School System When: Mar 22, 2019 # of records involved: Limited What happened: Several high school students are in hot water after they were able to log into their schools’ computer systems to change grades and attendance records. How did it...
CT Substance Abuse Counselor Stole Client Data for Personal Use
Who: An Unidentified Substance Use Disorder Treatment Center in North Haven, CT When: 19 March 2019 # of records involved: Limited number What happened: An employee of a substance use disorder treatment center in North Haven who is accused of stealing patients’...
Third Party Vendors Store Facebook Data on Unencrypted AWS Server
Who: Facebook When: April 3, 2019 # of records involved: 540 Million records What happened: Two third-party companies that had collected Facebook data on their own servers. How did it happen: Two Amazon cloud servers storing over 540 million Facebook-related records...
Third Party EMR Vendor Experiences Massive Breach
Who: Meditab Software Inc. and MedPharm Services When: Mar 19, 2019 # of records involved: 6,000,000 Medical records of 2,200 healthcare hospitals, pharmacies, and doctors offices) What happened: Meditab provides the electronic medical record (EMR) and practice...
Windows 10 April 2019 Update Introduces A New Windows Update Policy
Windows 10 April 2019 Update Introduces A New Windows Update Policy The upcoming Windows 10 April 2019 Update, also known as version 1903 or 19H1, will come with a new Windows Update policy that will let admins “specify deadlines for automatic updates and restarts.”...
Silence Of The Wans: Fbi Ddos-For-Hire Takedowns Slash Web Flood Attacks ‘By 11%’
Silence Of The Wans: FBI DDoS-For-Hire Takedowns Slash Web Flood Attacks 'By 11%'The FBI's takedown of a group of prolific DDoS-for-hire websites has single-handedly helped to drop attack levels globally. This is according to a report (registration required) from...
Most IT And Security Professionals Feel Vulnerable To Insider Threats
Most IT And Security Professionals Feel Vulnerable To Insider Threats91 percent of IT and security professionals feel vulnerable to insider threats, and 75 percent believe the biggest risks lie in cloud applications like popular file storage and email solutions such...
The US Has Stepped Up Its Tax Game. You Will Want To Read This If You’re Selling Online
The US Has Stepped Up Its Tax Game. You Will Want To Read This If You're Selling Online No one thinks that sales tax in the U.S. is a problem unless they are operating in the U.S. But a Supreme Court case last year between Wayfair, the online furniture and home goods...
Cloud Adoption On The Rise, It Pros Unsure Of Risk
Cloud Adoption On The Rise, IT Pros Unsure Of Risk Even though misconfigurations in public clouds create risks to enterprise security, a new study found that more than half of IT professionals do not really understand the risks inherent in public cloud...
Latest Tactics Used By Cybercriminals To Bypass Traditional Email Security
Latest Tactics Used By Cybercriminals To Bypass Traditional Email Security Cybercriminals are continuously using new strategies to get past email security gateways, with brand impersonation being used in 83 percent of spear-phishing attacks, while 1 in 3 business...
Burgler’s Steal Four Desktop Computers from an Oklahoma Heart Hospital Clinic
Who: Oklahoma Heart Hospital # of Accounts Breached: 1,221 patients What was affected: Patient information like names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, and clinical information. When it happened: January 2019 How it happened: A January burglary resulted in...
Islamic Bank Breached through Internal Systems
Who: Meezan Bank # of Accounts Breached: 260,000 Card Present payment cards What was affected: Card Present payment cards When it happened: Between October 26, 2018 and February 25, 2019 How it happened: Over the past few months, there have been reports suggesting...
700 Companies Served by Third Party Healthcare Provider Breached
Who: Wolverine Solutions # of Accounts Breached: More than 700 companies and 1.2 million patients. What was affected: Individual patient information (names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, insurance contract information and numbers, phone numbers,...
Hackers Sell Company Websites Data on Dark Web
Who: Dubsmash, MyFitnessPal, MyHeritage, ShareThis, HauteLook, Animoto, EyeEm, 8fit, Whitepages, Fotolog, 500px, Armor Games, BookMate, CoffeeMeetsBagel, Artsy, and DataCamp. # of Accounts Breached: 617 million Dubsmash (162 million), MyFitnessPal (151 million),...
Hackers Install Malicious Backdoor in Software Update Tool of ASUS
Who: ASUS Date: 25 March 2019 # of Machines: 500,000 What Happened: ASUS, one of the world’s largest computer makers, was used to unwittingly install a malicious backdoor on thousands of its customers’ computers last year after attackers compromised a server for the...
ts back to Paper for Jackson Country Georgia after Ransomware Attack on Computer Network
Who: Jackson County, Georgia Date: 9 March 2019 Ransom Costs: $400,000 in Bitcoin What Happened: A ransomware attack hit the computers of Jackson County, Georgia, reducing government activity to a crawl until officials decided to pay cybercriminals $400,000 in...
Data Breach at AIA Singapore Exposes Personally Identifiable Information of Their Agents
Who: AIA Singapore Date: 05 Mar 2019 # of Records Involves: 225+ What Happened: A potential data breach in which the personal information of 225 of its current and former agents, as well as their family members, was found to be publicly accessible. How did it Happen:...
Artificial Intelligence Predicting Lifespan on NH Today WGIR-AM: [04/01/2019]
Artificial Intelligence Predicting Lifespan on NH Today WGIR-AM: [04/01/2019]On This Episode... If there was a proven way to predict at what age you will die, would you like to know it? Craig is on with Jack Heath and Justin talking about the AI predicting the...