Vlad Odobescu reports: Razvan Cernaianu once surfed the Internet anonymously and easily broke into the computer systems for NASA, the Pentagon and Oracle. Then he became part of a legion of hackers that turned Romania into a center of international cyber fraud investigators. Now, the 25-year-old is co-founder of Cyber Smart Defense, a security firm…
Month: June 2017
Nearly 2,500 North Dakotans face a privacy breach
The North Dakota Department of Human Services is notifying 2,452 Medicaid program recipients or their guardians/personal representatives about a breach of the recipients’ protected health information. The department is mailing letters to affected individuals and has posted a notice to its website to apologize, provide details about the breach, and offer credit/identity theft monitoring services….
U.S. hackers could have framed Russia in election hack: Putin tells NBC
Reuters reports: American hackers could have planted false evidence that Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election, President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying by NBC News on Saturday. U.S. intelligence officials have said Russia tried to interfere in the U.S. election by hacking the Democratic Party to sway the vote in favor of Donald…
HospitalGown Database Leak: Enterprise Apps Found Leaking Data On Back End Servers
AJ Dellinger reports: Mobile apps for enterprise services that manage data are leaving massive troves of user information exposed and unprotected on backend servers, according to a group of security researchers. Experts at Appthority, a mobile security firm, published a report that showed 43 terabytes of data from enterprise apps left exposed. The information was…
Anthem, AmEx, PayPal, Must Face ID Theft Suit in Calif.
Jimmy H. Koo reports: Health insurance, financial services, and payment card companies failed to keep a California attorney’s identify theft lawsuit in federal court and must face the allegations back in state court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held May 31 ( Gallo v. Unknown No. of Identity Thieves ,…
Over a thousand Elon accounts compromised in OneLogin security breach
Rachel Ellis reports: An e-mail was sent out earlier this morning that instructed all Elon faculty members to reset their Elon password immediately. Christopher Waters, the Assistant Vice President for Technology and the Chief Information Officer of the University, notified staff members that their Elon e-mail would be automatically disabled if passwords were not changed…