I had this deja vu feeling reading a report by Tom Corwin: Nearly five months after it happened, AU Medical Center announced that some patients may have had their personal information compromised by an attack on faculty email accounts, the hospital announced today. The attack known as phishing, where users unknowingly open up legitimate-seeming but…
Month: September 2017
West Haven City Hall data breach probed
Mark Zaretsky reports: Police were called in Thursday morning to investigate a possible breach of City Hall computer servers, Mayor Ed O’Brien and Director of Finance Kevin McNabola confirmed Thursday night. McNabola said he didn’t know for sure what data, if any, the breach — discovered two days after Tuesday’s Democratic primary — involved or…
Federal ban on Kaspersky software stretches into healthcare
Rachel Z. Arndt reports: The Department of Homeland Security has ordered that all federal agencies remove Kaspersky Lab software from their computer systems in the next 90 days, a decision that could ripple down into the healthcare industry, cybersecurity experts say. …. Kaspersky has more than 5,000 healthcare customers around the world, a small but…
NC: Morehead Memorial Hospital: Data breach may have leaked patient and employee information
Jessica Seaman reports: Morehead Memorial Hospital on Friday said a data breach has potentially exposed patient and employee information. The hospital said personal data may have been obtained through a phishing attack that affected two employee email accounts. Morehead Memorial did not say how many people were affected by the data breach. Read more on…
Vevo Hackers Leak — Then Delete — Huge Trove of Internal Videos, Documents
Todd Spangler reports: A notorious hacker group broke into the servers of music-streaming service Vevo, releasing more than 3 terabytes of internal documents and video content online — before removing them later Friday morning at Vevo’s request. The purloined cache, posted by hacking and security collective OurMine, included videos, a batch of documents labeled “premieres,” as…
Raising our guard vs. mega-breaches
Enough with the federal posturing, frumpfering, and doing nothing. New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman basically says, fsck this sh*t…. we need to pass the New York Data Security Act. Read his OpEd in the Daily News.