In May 2016, the Dallas FBI raided dental integrator and independent researcher Justin Shafer because of allegations that he had accessed an FTP server without authorization. Shafer was subsequently raided twice more, and in March 2017, he was arrested and charged with stalking a federal employee – not hacking or any criminal conduct related to…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
AU: Medical records exposed by flaw in Telstra Health’s Argus software
Ben Grubb reports: A flaw in medical software used by more than 40,000 Australian health specialists and distributed by Telstra has potentially exposed Australians’ medical information to hackers, who have been logging into practitioners’ computers and servers to carry out illegal activities. Read more on Sydney Morning Herald.
Hospitals Are Throwing Sensitive Patient Information Out With the Recycling
Kristen V. Brown reports: …. Researchers conducted a “recycling audit” of five hospitals in Toronto between November 2014 and May 2016 and found that frequently hospitals improperly threw out sensitive patient information. All the hospitals had policies designed to get rid of confidential patient health information without potentially exposing it, along with shredders to get the…
He tried to tell you you’re leaking data. Even after you stupidly blocked him.
Today’s episode of Incident Response Fail involves a cybersecurity professional/bug bounty hunter, Mohamed Suwaiz, and a driver training company in Texas, Smith System, that seemed to stubbornly resist his efforts to alert them to a data leak. Although Suwaiz (@Msuwaiz on Twitter) describes himself as being motivated by bug bounties, when there’s no bounty to…
Six months after TheDarkOverlord attacked their district, School District 6 sends breach notification letters to parents
More than six months after the hacker or hackers known as TheDarkOverlord hacked and terrorized School District 6 in Columbia Falls, Montana, the district has sent parents breach notification letters revealing what they were able – and not able – to determine. Three versions of the March 19th letter, marked “Draft” and signed by Superintendent…
Here’s what you didn’t know about health data breaches in February
Protenus, Inc. has released its February Breach Barometer, with its analysis of 39 health data incidents compiled for them by this site. As I have done in companion posts to their previous reports, I am providing a list, below, of the incidents upon which their report is based. Where additional details are available, I have…