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Month: October 2023

No need to hack when it’s leaking, Wednesday edition

Posted on October 25, 2023 by Dissent

Millions of Highly Sensitive Patient Records Exposed in Medical Diagnostic Company Data Breach Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to WebsitePlanet about a non-password protected database that contained over 12 million records containing medical diagnostic scans, test results, and other potentially sensitive medical records. The database contained a massive amount of medical test results that included…

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Indian govt’s insistence that Aadhaar is secure rings hollow in wake of breaches

Posted on October 24, 2023 by Dissent

Joel R. McConvey reports: India is bleeding biometric information, with new data breaches giving credence to a recent report by the credit rating agency Moody’s warning that Aadhaar’s centralized biometric digital ID system has privacy and security vulnerabilities. A piece in Security Affairs reports that earlier this month, the cybersecurity firm Resecurity found hundreds of millions of records containing…

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Orange County’s DA’s Office experiences data breach

Posted on October 24, 2023 by Dissent

Jaz Mendez reports: Hackers broke into the Orange County District Attorney’s office’s information technology system last week, the DA’s office announced Monday. The office did not specify whether any information was compromised, but said in a press release that it took “immediate action” to shut down its cybersecurity infrastructure as soon as it learned of…

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University of Tokyo PC Infected with Malware in July 2022; Possible Leak of Students’ Addresses, Grades

Posted on October 24, 2023 by Dissent

The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: A computer at the University of Tokyo had been infected with malware, possibly leaking up to 4,341 files containing addresses and grades of students from the academic years of 2003 to 2022, the university said Tuesday. The PC belonged to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the College of Arts…

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In The Age Of AI-Enabled Attacks, Should Every School Have A CISO?

Posted on October 24, 2023 by Dissent

Hari Ravichandran writes: … A report (download) from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that school districts lose between $50,000 and $1 million on average from cyberattacks, and recovery takes two to nine months on average. Schools are right up there with the energy, transportation and water sectors as well as hospitals as critical infrastructure…

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NJ Man Hired Online to Firebomb, Shoot at Homes Gets 13 Years in Prison

Posted on October 24, 2023 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: A 22-year-old New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for participating in a firebombing and a shooting at homes in Pennsylvania last year. Patrick McGovern-Allen was the subject of a Sept. 4, 2022 story here about the emergence of “violence-as-a-service” offerings, where random people from the Internet…

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