CBC News reports: Eastern Health and Memorial University’s Faculty of Medicine are advising of a privacy breach Monday after a doctor emailed researchers “tuberculosis-related health information” involving 122 patients. According to the health authority, the physician — who was not named — shared the information with other researchers as a part of a grant application for…
Month: January 2017
How Russian Hackers Became a Kremlin Headache
Leonid Bershidsky reports: The recent arrests of Russian cybersecurity officials in Moscow likely had little to do with last year’s U.S. election. The story behind them, however, sheds some light on the relationship between the Russian government and the hackers who work for it. The web of names and their interconnections can be a little hard to…
Russian hackers behind attempted Polish foreign ministry hack: report
Radio Poland reports: A hacking attempt in December on the computer servers of the Polish Foreign Ministry was likely the work of Russian hackers, according to the Rzeczpospolita daily. The alleged hackers were part of the APT28 group, also known as the Fancy Bear cyber espionage group, which experts identify as being associated with the…
Doxxing Raises the Stakes of Ransomware for Healthcare Providers
Jack Danahy of Barkly writes, in part: In a very short time, ransomware has grown from a known but infrequent cyber attack to a profitable and widespread epidemic. Attacks are increasing in frequency and severity. On average, a new business is attacked every 40 seconds, and a disproportionately high number of victims are healthcare providers….
NY: Three Individuals Plead Guilty in $55 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme at Two Brooklyn Medical Clinics
As I’ve occasionally noted in the past in discussing statistics on medical identity theft, sometimes patients knowingly participate in the crime, usually by lending friends or family members their health insurance information so that others can seek care. Despite the government or other researchers’ justifications, I have argued that we shouldn’t consider such instances cases…
Hackers hit D.C. police closed-circuit camera network, city officials disclose
Clarence Williams reports: Hackers infected 70 percent of storage devices that record data from D.C. police surveillance cameras eight days before President Trump’s inauguration, forcing major citywide reinstallation efforts, according to the police and the city’s technology office. City officials said ransomware left police cameras unable to record between Jan. 12 and Jan. 15. The…