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Month: September 2016

FTC denies LabMD’s application for a stay of Commission’s Final Order

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Dissent

In what is likely to infuriate those who believe that the Federal Trade Commission has already abused its authority in its relentless enforcement action against a small cancer-detecting laboratory, the FTC has denied LabMD’s application for a stay of their final order  while LabMD appeals to a federal court. In explaining its denial, the Commission said it looked at four…

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NZME data accessed in security breach

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Dissent

Radio New Zealand reports: Data of about 76,000 people may have been leaked in a security breach of a cloud server used by media company NZME. The company, whose portfolio includes The New Zealand Herald, said data may have been accessed through a third party cloud server holding information collected through competitions and some client data….

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InfoArmor: Yahoo Data Breach Investigation

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Dissent

Well, it seems InfoArmor is calling b.s. on claims that Yahoo! was hacked by state actors.  The overview from their report: Yahoo was compromised in 2014 by a group of professional blackhats who were hired to compromise customer databases from a variety of different targeted organizations. Some of their initial targets, which occurred in 2012…

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NJ Spine Center saw no other option but to pay ransom

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Dissent

Oof. This notification from the New Jersey Spine Center, sent to patients on September 22, describes a real disaster where not only essential patient files and credit card information were locked up, but their most recent backup was too.  No wonder they paid the ransom. On July 27, 2016, our computer systems were attacked by a malware…

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Habitat for Humanity Colorado discloses severely handicapping data breach

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Dissent

From HFHC: For the past several months, HFHC has been dealing with a significant and malicious data breach which has severely handicapped our ability to efficiently conduct business and has hijacked our attention for the last several months.  The tech company we are now working with states in its letter of findings that “In 17…

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Hackers attack Royal Cornwall Hospital at Treliske and hold bosses to ransom over stolen information

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Dissent

LynBarton reports: Cyber criminals have made “multiple” attacks on Cornwall’s main hospital in the past year with repeated attempts to hold health bosses to ransom by stealing sensitive information. According to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request, the IT system of the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (RCHT) was once infected ransom-ware, a type of malicious software…

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