Jake Prinsen reports: Hackers may have stolen personal information from patients at Aurora Medical Center Bay Area. Someone used an email phishing scam around January 1 to gain access to email accounts of several of the Marinette hospital’s employees, according to Advocate Health Aurora. Read more on Green Bay Press Gazette.
Month: April 2020
Ransomware attack temporarily knocks out Olean city systems
Bob Clark reports: Another virus has crippled city operations — this one of the digital kind. On Friday morning, city officials announced that the management information department detected and stopped a computer virus attack on the city’s computers before the opening of business. “All I can tell you is it was ransomware discovered early in…
Hacking against corporations surges as workers take computers home
Joseph Menn reports: Hacking activity against corporations in the United States and other countries more than doubled by some measures last month as digital thieves took advantage of security weakened by pandemic work-from-home policies, researchers said. […] Software and security company VMWare Carbon Black said this week that ransomware attacks it monitored jumped 148% in…
Oakland County stops COVID-19 data leak
Orion Sang reports: Oakland County secured a data leakage of internal COVID-19 data that was used by the Oakland County Health Division for public health analysis. The leakage originated on Tuesday night and was stopped Wednesday morning. […] The data that was leaked was “of a non-public map that was unintentionally marked as public during…
ICO Confirms Second Deferral For BA And Marriott’s GDPR Fines
Melanie Mingas reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), a public body sponsored by the UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), has again deferred the payment of multi-million-dollar fines levied on Marriott International and British Airways after both firms had customer information stolen by hackers. The fines, issued two days apart in July…
CISA Alert (AA20-106A) Guidance on the North Korean Cyber Threat
Summary The U.S. Departments of State, the Treasury, and Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are issuing this advisory as a comprehensive resource on the North Korean cyber threat for the international community, network defenders, and the public. The advisory highlights the cyber threat posed by North Korea – formally known as the…