Britton White is a cybersecurity & HIPAA Compliance advisor. The following article is reproduced with his kind permission. Email is the bane of our existence and the number one threat vector….. there’s no other way to say it. I’ve rummaged through over 30 hospitals and hundreds of clinics (some multiple times) in my time conducting…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Potential class action lawsuits filed against two more ransomware victims
On Thursday, I reported on a potential class action lawsuit that had been filed against two hospitals in Puerto Rico that suffered a ransomware attack. As I noted in my post, none of the named plaintiffs claimed that they had suffered any concrete injury or harm other than the cost and time involved in monitoring…
US government goes all in to expose new malware used by North Korean hackers
Dan Goodin reports: The US Pentagon, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security on Friday exposed a North Korean hacking operation and provided technical details for seven pieces of malware used in the campaign. The US Cyber National Mission Force, an arm of the Pentagon’s US Cyber Command, said on Twitter that the malware is “currently…
Personal information of 144,000 Canadians mishandled by federal bureaucracies
Sam McGriskin reports: The personal information of 144,000 Canadians has been mishandled by federal departments and agencies over the last two years according to the House of Commons figures. CBC News reported that the Privacy Commissioner’s office noted that they saw “strong indications of systemic under-reporting.” Many people who were affected by the privacy breaches were…
Relation Insurance Discloses Data Security Incident
The following is part of Relation Insurance’s disclosure notice, published February 13 on their site: What Happened? Relation Insurance Inc. (“Relation”) provides insurance brokerage services working with certain insurance providers, and we are issuing notice of a recent event that may impact the privacy of certain personal information. To date, Relation has not received any…
New York state school districts face deadline to improve cyber security
Celia Watson Seupel reports: Protecting Saugerties school district data from hackers could cost $70,000 annually — money that’s “not going to improve the quality of education,” Board of Education Trustee Krista Barringer said. […] Protecting school district data from hackers has become mandatory. A new regulation adopted by the state Board of Regents took effect Jan. 29,…