Educational settings across countries and age groups continue to be report hacking incidents or zoom-bombing incidents. Here are just some of the data security headlines I noted over the past few weeks: In the U.S.: Hundreds of Wimberley ISD students receive racist email in an apparent hack Council Rock Student’s Email Was Hacked, District Says…
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Preliminary settlement approved in 21st Century Oncology 2015 breach case
Long-time readers may remember that 21st Century Oncology had a slew of serious problems going back to 2013 including a rogue employee-related breach that they were alerted to by law enforcement, and litigation under the False Claims Act that resulted in them paying $34.7 million for billing for medically unnecessary tests. But of note, in…
What makes us human: countering the accidental insider cyber threat
Philip Bridge writes: […] The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has been keen to change the perception that a data breach can only occur through the actions of someone outside the organisation. Instead, it defines a breach as “any event that results in the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal…
One of the World’s Most Prolific Cybercriminals Has Retired – And May Well Be a Bitcoin Billionaire
Hundreds of millions of cards have been stolen from online retailers, banks and payments companies before being sold for cryptocurrency on dozens of online marketplaces. According to Elliptic’s analysis, the founder of one of the most popular carding marketplaces, Joker’s Stash, has retired having amassed a fortune of over $1 billion. Read this article by…
Threat actors claim to have stolen Jones Day files; law firm remains quiet
Over on AdvIntel, Tyler Combs has a post about threat actors attacking law firms. Many of us are already aware of a number of law firms who have been attacked and who have had their firm’s files dumped publicly when they refused to pay ransom demands, but if the biggest law firms fall prey, what…
mHealth Apps Expose Millions to Cyberattacks
Becky Bracken reports: Some 23 million mobile health (mHealth) application users are exposed to application programming interface (API) attacks that could expose sensitive information, according to researchers. Generally speaking, APIs are an intermediary between applications that defines how they can talk to one another and allowing them to swap information. Researcher Alissa Knight with Approov…