Catalin Cimpanu reports: A multi-year study on the stock price evolution for breached companies reveals that data breaches have a long-term impact on a company’s stock price, even if it’s somewhat minimal. The study, carried out by the research team behind the CompariTech web portal, looked only at companies listed on the New York Stock…
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Data of almost 3,000 patients experiencing emergency symptoms exposed online by MedCall Advisors
Have you ever wished you could just pick up a phone and get an emergency room physician on the phone to advise you in an emergency? Well, it seems that you can. According to their website, North Carolina-based Medcall Advisors is a “Workers Compensation and Healthcare Solutions” provider offering a comprehensive tele-emergent care medical service…
Banks Turn to the Courts for Data Breach Claims
Dawn Causey, Thomas Pinder and Andrew Doersam write: Banks frequently absorb fraud losses when the consumer is compensated for damage done by other sectors. When retailers with questionable security protocols are breached, banks support the customer throughout the fraud cycle: consumer outreach and notification, card reissuance, enhanced transaction monitoring and reassurance that the bank’s systems…
UK: University Cyber Attacks Down To Students, Staff?
Tom Jowitt reports: Organised crime and hacking groups may not be responsible for the spate of cyber-attacks against universities and colleges in the UK. This is said to be the conclusion of a security analysis of the attacks carried out by Jisc, the UK provider of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) services for the education…
Healthcare in the Cross Hairs: Insider Threat
Craig A. Newman writes: The healthcare industry has been in the sights of hackers for some time. But a recent survey found that the biggest threat in the sector comes from within. Verizon has just released its Protected Health Information Data Breach Report and found that 58% of the data security incidents in the industry…
Bugs in ProtonVPN, NordVPN Left Windows Vulnerable to Hackers
Adam Smith reports: ProtonVPN and NordVPN were exposed to vulnerabilities that could have allowed hackers to execute arbitrary code with administrator privileges on computers running Windows. The bugs, CVE-2018-3952 (affecting NordVPN) and CVE-2018-4010 (affecting ProtonVPN), were discovered by Cisco Talos security researchers and are similar to another security flaw (tracked as CVE-2018-10169) discovered in March…