So no sooner do I get done updating the Mercy Iowa City breach that involved a virus infection of their system, then I see that MedStar Health in Washington also suffered a breach due to virus infection. John Cox of Washington Post reported: A virus infected the computer system of MedStar Health on Monday, forcing…
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Hackers reportedly access OpSec employee data
How embarrassing would it be to have a firm named OpSec Security that advertises it’s “trusted by over 400 companies and 50 government agencies” – and then it falls for a phishing scheme? Tim Stuhldreher reports: In the wake of a data breach, an anti-counterfeiting company with local sales and manufacturing operations is advising its employees to be…
FBI issues warning to law firms
Linn Foster Freedman of Robinson & Cole writes: The FBI has issued a Private Industry Notification to law firms indicating that a cyber crime insider trading ring is targeting “international law firm information used to facilitate business ventures.” According to the FBI “[T]he scheme involves a hacker compromising the law firm’s computer networks and monitoring…
Hacker behind anti-Semitic flyers at DePaul University
ABC reports that remote print capabilities have enabled hackers to print and distribute anti-semitic flyers: DePaul University is searching for the hacker behind a white supremacist, anti-Semitic flyer that appeared on campus. The university president says someone hacked into several printers and the flyer printed simultaneously. Officials say the source was not a DePaul account….
IRS’s Top 10 Identity Theft Prosecutions
From the IRS, Mar. 21: As part of the continued crackdown on refund fraud and identity theft, the Internal Revenue Service today released the Top 10 Identity Theft Prosecutions for Fiscal Year 2015. These prosecutions are part of the wide-ranging strategy to combat refund fraud and assist taxpayers through detection, prevention and resolving identity theft…
Ransomware hits Rockville restaurant and others
Stephanie Gailhard reports that Hard Times Café in Rockville, Maryland and 8 other businesses got hit with ransomware on Sunday. The ransom demand for the restaurant? $10,000 according to owner Bob Howard. But he says he’s not paying.