Dr. Office Patient Information Held For Ransom after Cyber Breach Incident
Who: Ronald Snyder, M.D. # of Accounts Breached: 24,000 What was affected: Medical billing information, which may include: name, address, date of birth, gender, co-pay amount, patient status, employment status, telephone number, email address, and certain patients’...
Jeff Bezos Personally Dumps A Truckload Of Dirt On Fedex’s Future
Jeff Bezos Personally Dumps A Truckload Of Dirt On Fedex’s Future Amazon wants to be plenty of things, the most predictable of which is its ambition to control America’s shipping backbone. The company’s efforts to bring users whatever they desire in 24 hours requires...
Compromised Email Account Revealed PII of DHS Personnel and Clients
Who: Department of Human Services - Minnesota # of Accounts Breached: 11,000 What was affected: The compromised e-mail account contained a wide range of personal information about DHS clients, employees and applicants, including first and last names, dates of birth,...
White House Cracks Down On Huawei Equipment Sales With Executive Order
White House Cracks Down On Huawei Equipment Sales With Executive Order After months of speculation, President Trump has signed an executive order giving the federal government the power to block US companies from buying foreign-made telecommunications equipment deemed...
Israel Bombed Cyber Hackers (That Is Historic, For Many Reasons)
Israel Bombed Cyber Hackers (That Is Historic, For Many Reasons) Between the fake Nigerian princes and the endless computer passwords we need to create (one uppercase and lowercase letter, please), we have all wanted to bomb the hackers. Last weekend, Israel did just...
Antivirus Makers Confirm—And Deny—Getting Breached By Hackers Looking To Sell Stolen Data
Antivirus Makers Confirm—And Deny—Getting Breached By Hackers Looking To Sell Stolen Data Symantec and Trend Micro are among the list of leading antivirus companies that a group of Russian-speaking hackers allege to have compromised, Gizmodo has learned. It remains...
Security Breach Suffered By Credit Bureau Equifax Has Cost Them $1.4+ Billion
Security Breach Suffered By Credit Bureau Equifax Has Cost Them $1.4+ Billion In 2017 Equifax confirmed it has suffered a massive data breach, cyber criminals stole sensitive personal records of 145 million belonging to US citizens and hundreds of thousands Canada and...
Enabling Full Mitigation Against Intel Cpu Attacks Causes Up To 40 Percent Performance Penalty
Enabling Full Mitigation Against Intel Cpu Attacks Causes Up To 40 Percent Performance PenaltyFollowing the announcement of new speculative execution exploits that target Intel CPU architecture, Apple has posted a new document on its website that explains how...
Microsoft Warns Of A Monster Computer Bug, In A Week Of Them
Microsoft Warns Of A Monster Computer Bug, In A Week Of Them Microsoft Corp. took the unusual step of warning that a computer bug it has now patched could be used by a cyber weapon similar to the WannaCry worm, which spread across the globe two years ago. The bug is...
Microfiche Data Lost During Move
Who: BC Pension Corporation # of Accounts Breached: 8,000 What happened: A box of microfiche the size of a Kleenex box disappeared during a recent office move in Victoria When it happened: January 28, 2019 How it happened: The BC Pension Corporation revealed in a...