Cyber Security Intelligence reports: Cyber security experts have recently revealed the top six government impersonation scams they have removed from the Internet in 2022 as they urged the public to remain vigilant to cyber crime in 2023. The scams unveiled by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), part of GCHQ, included phishing emails and messages from cyber criminals…
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Private health data breach in Isle of Man to be dealt within 3 months, officials say
Seen on diabetes.co.uk: An organisation set up to focus on the delivery of health and social care on the Isle of Man has been given a three-month deadline to stop data breaches. Manx Care will be ordered to pay £170,000 if they fail to prevent breaches of people’s private data within the next three months….
Impact of ransomware on healthcare: what’s confirmed and what’s just speculative?
Sunday musings….. What impact do ransomware attacks have on delivering healthcare services to patients? Some claims have been made, but are the claims supported by any objective data, or are people just guessing what the impact has been or could be? In this week’s news, a hospital in Illinois announced it will be temporarily closing…
TSA ‘no fly’ list leaked after being found on unsecured airline server
Chris Pandolfo reports: The Swiss hacker known as “maia arson crimew” blogged Thursday that she discovered the Transportation Security Administration “no fly” list from 2019 and a trove of data belonging to CommuteAir on an unsecured Amazon Web Services cloud server used by the airline. The hacker told The Daily Dot the list appeared to have more…
Rundle Eye Care notifies patients of data breach
At some time before or in early October, the Everest Ransom Team hacked Rundle Eye Care in California. On January 11, Drs. Keith and Herman Rundle notified patients and the California Attorney General’s Office about the incident. In their notification, the doctors do not reveal precise dates of the attack or its discovery but claim…
BlackCat adds NextGen to its leak site, but …. where did it go?
On January 17, BlackCat (aka ALPHV) added NextGen to their leak site. On January 19, DataBreaches sent an email inquiry to NextGen asking when they were attacked, whether files had been encrypted, and whether any employee data or patient data had been accessed or exfiltrated. NextGen responded promptly and then sent the following statement: NextGen…