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Data Breach Impacts More Than 23,300 CCPSA Medical Patients
Who: Critical Care, Pulmonary & Sleep Associates No. of Accounts Breached: 23,377 patients’ accounts What was affected: Personally identifiable information, clinical information such as diagnoses and conditions, labs and diagnostic studies, medications, other...
Malicious Actor Encrypts Data and Request Ransom from Bridgeport Public Schools
Who: Bridgeport Public Schools What was affected: District data encrypted and held for a ransom When it happened: January 9, 2019 How it happened: Cyberattack originated from a virus dispatched by a malicious outsider encrypted district data to hold it hostage for a...
University Loses Information on over One Million Student and Alumni
Who: Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) No. of Accounts Breached: A total of 1,164,540 records What was affected: Records, belonging to students who enrolled for various courses at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) between 2000 and 2018 When it happened: January 29, 2019...
Ransomware Attack Forces Texas Town to Ditch Computers Returning to Paper
Who: City Hall of Del Rio, Texas What was affected: Ransomware attack which led to multiple computers on the network being turned off and disconnected from the Internet to contain and analyze the malware. When it happened: January 10, 2019 How it happened: Ransom note...
Japan Wants to Survey Insecure IoT devices Before Olympics by Hacking
Who: Japanese IoT devices What was affected: 200 million IoT devices When it happened: January 2019 How it happened: The survey will be carried out by employees of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) under the supervision of the...
Dark Net Crime Gang tricked Bank Employee in Making Transfers
Who: Lloyds Bank Glasgow No. of Accounts Breached: 19 customer accounts What was affected: £75,000 stolen from customer accounts When it happened: July 18, 2016 How it happened: On July 18, 2016, between 7:45 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. Lynn had accessed 19 customer accounts...
Credential Stuffing Scheme hits Daily Motion
Who: DailyMotion What was affected: Customer accounts, usernames, and passwords. When it happened: January 19, 2019 How it happened: DailyMotion announced on Friday that it was the victim of a credential stuffing attack, Credentials stuffing is a security term that...
Sudbury Ontario Health Care System hit by Zero-Day Virus
Who: Health Sciences North Sudbury Ontario What was affected: The computer system of Sudbury, Ontario-based Health Sciences North was infected by a zero-day virus, driving officials to shut down its EHR to contain the infection at 21 Health Science North Hospitals....
Security Breach at LocalBitcoins Allowed Access by Unauthorized Users
Who: LocalBitcoins No. of Accounts Breached: 6 as of press time What was affected: It confirmed that the vulnerability allowed the attacker to gain access to an undisclosed number of accounts, although, at press time, it only knew of six cases where users had been...
Store Thieves Exposed in B&Q Stores Data Breach
Who: B&Q Stores No. of Accounts Breached: 70,000 What was affected: The breached database contained a list of people who had been caught stealing products from B&Q stores. The document included the names of the offenders, the items they had stolen, the value...
Salisbury Maryland Police Department Gets Hit by Ransomware
Who: Salisbury Maryland Police Department What was affected: A Ransomware attack compromised the department's entire internal computer network. When it happened: January 9, 2019 How it happened: A “criminal" attacker accessed its network through a longtime software...
Zillow Wants To Flip Your House
Zillow Wants To Flip Your House With its tan stucco exterior and red tile roof, the Rittenhouse home on South Star Canyon Drive looks a lot like the other houses in Power Ranch, a large planned community southeast of Phoenix. Mark, a meat buyer for a grocery chain,...
Facebook Uses Its Apps To Track Users It Thinks Could Threaten Employees And Offices
Facebook Uses Its Apps To Track Users It Thinks Could Threaten Employees And Offices In early 2018, a Facebook user made a public threat on the social network against one of the company's offices in Europe. Facebook picked up the threat, pulled the user's data and...
Prevent Procrastination With This Chrome Extension
Prevent Procrastination With This Chrome Extension I’ve found myself in a vicious cycle lately. Whenever I have free time to kill, I’ll typically rotate through the same, stale list of websites, sucking up whatever new content comes along to relieve me of my boredom....
Why Windows Defender Antivirus Is The Most Deployed In The Enterprise
Why Windows Defender Antivirus Is The Most Deployed In The Enterprise Statistics about the success and sophistication of malware can be daunting. The following figure is no different: Approximately 96% of all malware is polymorphic – meaning that it is only...
Youtuber Claims Online Pedophile Ring Operates Freely On Youtube
Youtuber Claims Online Pedophile Ring Operates Freely On Youtube YouTuber Matt Watson exposed what he called a “wormhole into a soft-core pedophilia ring” on the video streaming platform, in a video uploaded Sunday. Watson’s video claimed to reveal a...
Did Your Smart-Tv Start Showing You Shows You Didn’t Subscribe To? “Thehackergiraffe” Says He’s Retired From Hacking Smart Tvs To Promote Pewdiepie
Did Your Smart-Tv Start Showing You Shows You Didn’t Subscribe To? “Thehackergiraffe” Says He’s Retired From Hacking Smart Tvs To Promote Pewdiepie TheHackerGiraffe, the hacker who breached innocent users’ unsecured printers, Google Chromecast streaming devices, and...
What Is The Dark Web? How To Access It And What You’ll Find
What Is The Dark Web? How To Access It And What You'll Find The dark web is a part of the internet that isn't indexed by search engines. You've no doubt heard talk of the “dark web” as a hotbed of criminal activity — and it is. Researchers Daniel Moore and Thomas Rid...
Amazon Filed A Patent Application For Tech That Could Link You To Your Identity And Job
Amazon Filed A Patent Application For Tech That Could Link You To Your Identity And Job The Recognition technology could one day scan your face, identify who you are, use visual cues to figure out the kind of work you do, and potentially track you as you move around....
Ransomware Gang Infects Customers Of It Support Firms
Ransomware Gang Infects Customers Of It Support Firms At least 126 managed service providers forgot to update a plugin back in 2017 and are now vulnerable to attacks. Many small IT firms and other types of managed service providers (MSPs) use the two vulnerable...
Two In Three Organizations Not Convinced They Can Avoid A Breach
Two In Three Organizations Not Convinced They Can Avoid A BreachA majority of organizations confessed that they are not certain whether the security strategies they have in place will be effective in preventing data breaches. 68% of respondents said staffing is an...
Dad Fell For A “Tech Support” Scam
Dad Fell For A "Tech Support" ScamI first discovered the issue when I opened my dad’s laptop yesterday and I noticed that the taskbar looked a bit strange, with one extra row than normal. Upon closer inspection I noticed that there was a message that read: "Computer...
Cut The Cable — Great Deal On Streaming “Stick”
Cut The Cable -- Great Deal On Streaming “Stick” Replacing cable TV has never been easier or cheaper. For a limited time, you can snag the $50 Fire TV Stick 4K with all-new Alexa Voice Remote for just $39.99 Launch and control content with the all-new Alexa Voice...
Unopened Copy Of Super Mario Bros Video Game Sells For Record $100k
Unopened Copy Of Super Mario Bros Video Game Sells For Record $100kA copy of the Super Mario Bros. video game is setting a new record.An unopened copy of the Nintendo game released in 1985 sold for a record breaking $100,150. Because the game was so popular, Nintendo...
Microsoft: Drag Internet Explorer To The Trash. No, Really
Microsoft: Drag Internet Explorer To The Trash. No, Really Microsoft Internet Explorer was sent to the technology retirement home in 2015, but four years later, the company’s cybersecurity specialist is warning diehard fans that it really is time to switch to a new...
Robocalls And Phone Scams Are All The Rage In 2019
Robocalls And Phone Scams Are All The Rage In 2019Welcome to 2019, where the phone is a weapon of deception. A new study by the FCC projects that nearly half of all cell calls received this year will be spam. Junk. Uninvited voices designed to lure money or...
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Nest Cameras Being Hacked: AS HEARD ON WGAN: [02-13-19]
Nest Cameras Being Hacked: AS HEARD ON WGAN: [02-13-19] On This Episode... Craig is on with Ken and Matt on WGAN Morning News. They talked about hackers hacking the Nest devices and the Russians infiltrating US utilities. They also talked about how you can check if...
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How To Check Your Passwords And Why It Matters – WSJ Article About Russian Attacks On US: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [02-12-19]
How To Check Your Passwords And Why It Matters - WSJ Article About Russian Attacks On US: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [02-12-19]On This Episode... Craig is on with Jim on the Jim Polito Show. They talked about the Google Chrome feature and website that can help you check if...
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Lowes Iris Smart Home Technology Dies – Amazon Alexa Tricks And Tips on NH Today WGIR-AM: [02/11/2019]
Lowes Iris Smart Home Technology Dies - Amazon Alexa Tricks And Tips on NH Today WGIR-AM: [02/11/2019]On This Episode... Craig is on WGIR at the Auto Fair listener lines with Jack and Justin. They talked about Lowe's Iris smart home technology shutting down on March...
How Hackers And Scammers Break Into Icloud-Locked Iphones
How Hackers And Scammers Break Into Icloud-Locked Iphones In spring, 2017, a teenager walked up behind a woman leaving the Metro in Northeast Washington DC and put her in a chokehold: "Be quiet," he said. And "delete your iCloud." He grabbed her iPhone 6S and ran...