SLC Security reports that they are seeing indicators that this entity has been breached for over a month and does not realize it. It appears as though their infrastructure is being used to launch farther attacks on other educational institutions. They also appear on Emerging Threats for malicious activity since at lease the 11th of…
Month: February 2015
Physician guidelines for Googling patients need revision
Jennifer Abbasi writes on Penn State News: With the Internet and social media becoming woven into the modern medical practice, Penn State College of Medicine researchers contend that professional medical societies must update or amend their Internet guidelines to address when it is ethical to “Google” a patient. “As time goes on, Googling patients is going to…
League of Legends exploit opens back door to user accounts
Shaun Prescott reports: A League of Legends exploit allowing browser access to the game’s store as a means to hacking other player accounts, is being addressed by Riot. According to witness reports on Reddit, the exploit allows users to access the League of Legends store from a web browser rather than the game client. With access to a user’s Summoner ID and…
FBI alerts CICS Employment Services that personal info may have been compromised
When in doubt, notify. Even if you suspect that it may be a vendor and not your firm that’s been breached – particularly if it’s the FBI or Secret Service that comes knocking on your door to alert you that you may have been breached. CICS Employment Services Inc is notifying an undisclosed number of individuals that their information…
HipChat Security Notice and Password Reset
Craig Davies posted this on HipChat‘s blog two days ago: Atlassian’s security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the HipChat service that resulted in unauthorized access to names, usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords for a very small percentage (<2%) of our users. We have no evidence that any payment information was accessed. While HipChat passwords…
Senior Health Partners Provides Notice of Data Security Incident
Senior Health Partners (SHP), a Healthfirst Company, Provides Notice of Data Security Incident NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Senior Health Partners (SHP), a Healthfirst company, is today notifying approximately 2,700 of its members that a laptop and smartphone belonging to an assessment nurse employed by Premier Home Health (“Premier”), a business associate, were stolen from the…