Kelly Jackson Higgins reports: Famed Internet search engine Shodan this week rolled out a service that helps solve the underlying problem its tool exposes: The new Shodan Monitor alerts organizations about their devices left exposed on the public Internet. […] Matherly says setting up Shodan Monitor – which is free to all paying Shodan members – takes…
Month: March 2019
Ex-NSA contractor pleads guilty to vast classified data leak, faces 9 years in prison
Sean Lyngaas reports: A former National Security Agency contractor accused of one of the largest breaches of classified data in U.S. history pleaded guilty Thursday to one felony count and faces a total of nine years in federal prison. Appearing solemn and weary in federal court in Baltimore, Harold T. Martin III, 54, seemed to embrace his…
IA: Southern Hills Eye Care Notifies Patients of Ransomware Attack
From their web site: Southern Hills Eye Care has become aware of a potential data security incident that may have resulted in the inadvertent exposure of patients’ personal and health information. Although at this time there is no indication that an unauthorized party accessed or viewed patient information, or evidence of patient information being misused,…
24K Cremation Society of Pa. customers notified of possible loss of personal information
Steve Marroni reports: The personal information of more than 24,000 clients of the Cremation Society of Pennsylvania may have been compromised. While officials do not believe any identities have actually been stolen, the organization’s corporate headquarters notified 24,168 people about the possible breach and is offering them free identity protection and credit monitoring services, officials…
Office Depot and Tech Support Firm Will Pay $35 Million to Settle FTC Allegations That They Tricked Consumers into Buying Costly Computer Repair Services
Office Depot, Inc. and a California-based tech support software provider have agreed to pay a total of $35 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the companies tricked customers into buying millions of dollars’ worth of computer repair and technical services by deceptively claiming their software had found malware symptoms on the customers’ computers….
OCR Acting Deputy Director Talks Risk Management at Advocacy Summit
Anne Zender reports: Risk management, risk analysis, and enabling individual access to information are three areas where healthcare organizations have room for improvement, according to forthcoming findings from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) HIPAA audit program. Timothy Noonan, acting deputy director, health information privacy at OCR, spoke about…