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Greenbay employees have bank accounts raided after unpatched server hacked

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Dissent

Fox11 reports a hacking incident in GreenBay, but won’t name the company: Police are investigating after a local business’s computer network was hacked and money and information were stolen. Police did not identify the business. Officers say the hackers used a known vulnerability to get into the company’s computer system. The hackers stole personal information…

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Police probing Bell Canada data breach; up to 100,000 customers affected

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Dissent

Brent Lewin of Bloomberg reports: Police are investigating a new data breach at Bell Canada, which says hackers have illegally obtained customer information, primarily subscriber names and e-mail addresses. BCE Inc.-owned Bell confirmed Tuesday that up to 100,000 customers were affected by the hack, which comes about eight months after hackers accessed nearly 1.9 million…

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Pedes Orange County notifying patients after doctor found accessing EMR without authorization

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Dissent

Pedes Orange County, Inc. in California shares their medical facility with another medical group that  conducts surgical procedures. To coordinate, it seems that they share a scheduling tool with other medical professionals in their building. Somehow – and it’s not yet clear to me how this happened in terms of access controls – a physician…

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UK: ICO investigates Age UK after two data breaches

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Dissent

Kirsty Weakley writes: Age UK lost the personal details for current and former staff in two separate data breaches at the end of last year and has reported itself to the Information Commissioner’s Office. The charity has written to current and former employees to tell them that there were two incidents at the end of…

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British schoolboy, 15, posed as a CIA director to access secret military reports and taunted FBI agents

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Dissent

Fionn Hargreaves reports: A schoolboy hacker impersonated a CIA director to gain access to top secret military reports, a court heard yesterday. Kane Gamble was just 15 when he posed as CIA chief John Brennan from his Leicestershire home, even taking control of his wife’s iPad. The teenager gained access to passwords, personal information, security details,…

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NM: City of Farmington recovering after SamSam ransomware attack

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Dissent

More entities are falling prey to SamSam ransomware. Hannah Grover reports: The city of Farmington is returning to normal after a variant of the ransomware known as SamSam shut down the computer systems. The virus encrypts files on a computer network or locks down the entire system. When people attempt to log on, they receive…

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