Gordon Lubold and Dustin Volz report: The Navy is hiring a new cyber chief in an attempt to better shield its military secrets from Chinese hackers and other nation-state thieves who have aggressively targeted naval operations in recent years, according to Navy officials. The new position is part of a broader effort to improve cybersecurity…
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Polish data protection authority issues €645,000 fine to online retailer
Jessica Belton reports: Poland’s Personal Data Protection Office (UODO) this week imposed a PLN 2.8 million (€645,000) fine on online retailer Morele.net for “insufficient organisational and technical safeguards”. The data breach affected approximately 2.2 million customers who purchased products through one of the group’s nine websites. Read more on IT Governance.
Anonymous researcher drops vBulletin 5.x zero-day impacting tens of thousands of sites
Catalin Cimpanu reports: An anonymous security researcher has published details about a zero-day in vBulletin, today’s most popular internet forum software. Because of this individual’s actions, security experts are now concerned that the publication of details about this unpatched vulnerability could trigger a wave of forum hacks across the internet, with hackers taking over forum…
Maryland Adds Insurance Commissioner to Breach Notification Requirements
Liisa Thomas, Kari Rollins and Julia Kadish of Sheppard Mullin write: Effective October 1, 2019, organizations providing health insurance and related services must notify the Maryland Insurance Administration as part of its breach notification requirements. In August 2019, the Maryland Insurance Administration issued Bulletin 19-14 informing insurers, nonprofit health plans, HMOs, managed care organizations, managed general agents and…
Payouts From Insurance Policies May Fuel Ransomware Attacks
AP reports: The call came on a Saturday in July delivering grim news: Many of the computer systems serving the government of LaPorte County, Indiana, had been taken hostage with ransomware. The hackers demanded $250,000. No way, thought County Commission President Vidya Kora. But less than a week later, officials in the county southeast of…
Thousands of abandoned medical records found in deceased Indiana doctor’s abortion clinics
Christina Maxouris of CNN reports on what appears to be a horrifying medical privacy breach. First, authorities discovered a spine-chilling 2,246 fetal remains in the Illinois garage of an abortion doctor after his death. Then, investigators found “thousands” of abandoned medical records across his abortion clinics in Indiana, the Indiana attorney general announced on Friday….