Christina Maxouris of CNN reports on what appears to be a horrifying medical privacy breach. First, authorities discovered a spine-chilling 2,246 fetal remains in the Illinois garage of an abortion doctor after his death. Then, investigators found “thousands” of abandoned medical records across his abortion clinics in Indiana, the Indiana attorney general announced on Friday….
Month: September 2019
FL: Lee County hit with cybersecurity attack
Briana Harvath reports: Lee County manager Roger Desjarlais held a news conference concerning a cybersecurity breach Friday afternoon. There has been a cyberattack on the Lee County system. The incident is being actively investigated. The county technology experts are fully engaged in resolving the issue. In reaction to this incident, the county has temporarily disabled…
Hackers hit Travis Central Appraisal District website
Paul Thompson reports: The Travis Central Appraisal District has been malfunctioning for about a week after it was hit by a cyberattack on Sept. 11. The agency on Sept. 19 confirmed the attack. Chief Appraiser Marya Crigler said in a statement its computer systems were attacked at 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 11. The attack affected…
Tesco parking app hauled offline after exposing 10s of millions of Automatic Number Plate Recognition images
Gareth Corfield had the exclusive on this one: Tesco has shuttered its parking validation web app after The Register uncovered tens of millions of unsecured ANPR images sitting in a Microsoft Azure blob. The images consisted of photos of cars taken as they entered and left 19 Tesco car parks spread across Britain. Visible and…
Twitter suspends account claiming responsibility for WoW DDoS attack, Blizzard confirms suspect has been arrested
Dom Sacco has an update to reporting of September 8: UPDATE (September 20th): Blizzard has announced that a suspect has been arrested over this incident. It said in a forum post: “Immediately after the Distributed Denial of Service attacks against our game service began, the Blizzard Security Team worked around the clock with local and…
New evasive spear phishing attacks bypass email security measures
Katie Donegan reports: Attackers are playing the long game. Their newest phishing adaption is a product of monthslong intelligence gathering and social engineering — and it’s already being put into action. Dubbed evasive spear phishing, this new category of email security threat was discovered by investigating more than 25 million email attachments. Detailed in a…