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When coffee makers are demanding a ransom, you know IoT is screwed

Posted on September 27, 2020 by Dissent

Dan Goodin reports: With the name Smarter, you might expect a network-connected kitchen appliance maker to be, well, smarter than companies selling conventional appliances. But in the case of the Smarter’s Internet-of-things coffee maker, you’d be wrong. As a thought experiment, Martin Hron, a researcher at security company Avast, reverse engineered one of the $250…

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Pastebin’s new features concern infosec community

Posted on September 27, 2020 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports that Pastebin added new features that researchers fear and predict will be wildly abused: Named “Burn After Read” and “Password Protected Pastes,” the two new features allow Pastebin users to create pastes (pieces of text) that expire after a single read or pastes that are protected by a password. None of the…

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Health Insurer Pays $6.85 Million to Settle Data Breach Affecting Over 10.4 Million People

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Dissent

HHS has announced another big settlement and corrective action plan.  This one stems from a hack of Premera Blue Cross (PBC) in 2014 that went undetected until March of 2015.  DataBreaches.net had covered this incident at the time and the follow-ups that included a class action lawsuit that settled, a settlement with state attorneys general,…

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The High Cost of Reporting a Non-Reportable Data Breach

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Dissent

Mark Rasch raises an important issue — the risks of reporting a breach that you may not need to report.  Using the Blackbaud incident as his starting point, he writes: In May, cloud provider Blackbaud was the victim of a ransomware attack designed to lock it out of accessing its own data and servers. The…

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Interim Report on Blackbaud Breach: 5.6 million patients and counting…

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Dissent

Since our first interim report, DataBreaches.net has continued to compile reports that mention patient information that was disclosed to Blackbaud and that may have been accessed or exfiltrated by ransomware threat actors in the data breach discovered in May. Despite the criminals pinky-swearing that they wouldn’t misuse the data and would destroy it all in…

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Big Game Hunting: Now in Russia

Posted on September 23, 2020 by Dissent

Rustam Mirkasymov and Oleg Skulkin of Group-IB write: The email raised no suspicions. An employee of a Russian medical company boldly clicked on the link and downloaded the attached ZIP archive. The message with the subject “Bill due” looked like it had been sent by the Finance Department of a large Russian media holding, the…

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