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Aadhaar data leak: Govt deny claims by WikiLeaks

Posted on August 27, 2017 by Dissent

ZeeBiz Web Team reports: Days after a foreign media report which quoted WikiLeaks saying that the company which provides devices to record biometric data for Aadhaar may have compromised the sensitive data, now, the Indian government has “declined” the claims. The government officials said that claims which said that the data has been “leaked” is…

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Defray Ransomware Seen Targeting Education, Healthcare Industry

Posted on August 26, 2017 by Dissent

Sure… go after the verticals that have the poorest protection. Makes perfect sense. Chris Brook reports: Researchers observed a new, albeit small and selective ransomware campaign earlier this month targeting both education and healthcare verticals. The ransomware, dubbed Defray, comes hidden in rigged Microsoft Word document attachments, sent via email. Researchers with Proofpoint, who spotted…

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Hacking dominated health data breaches in July – Protenus

Posted on August 24, 2017 by Dissent

Protenus has released its July Breach Barometer, with data supplied by DataBreaches.net. Here’s a snippet from their report: July is the first month in 2017 to have hacking incidents outweigh insider breaches to patient data in both frequency and number of affected patient records.  While hacking accounted for almost half of total breach incidents this…

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Is The Hutchins Indictment Over Malware Unconstitutional?

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Dissent

Alex Berengaut of Covington & Burling analyzes some of the legal issues raised by the indictment of Marcus Hutchins (@malwaretechblog) for allegedly creating and conspiring to sell malware known as the Kronos banking trojan. He writes, in part: Since Hutchins’ indictment, commentators have questioned whether the creation and selling of malware—without actually using the malware—violates…

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NYS State Comptroller DiNapoli audit of City of Yonkers

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Dissent

Well, this sounds like an epic FAIL on the City of Yonker’s part, doesn’t it? City of Yonkers – Information Technology (Westchester County) The IT department’s acceptable computer use policy was not signed or acknowledged by all employees and city officials have also not classified personal, private and sensitive information based on its level of…

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UK: Medical records of Norfolk patients found in a petrol station, a King’s Lynn restaurant and on the pavement

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Dissent

Tom Bristow reports: The region’s hospitals have dismissed staff and said they are tightening up how they look after patients records in the wake of the breaches. More than 650 data protection incidents were reported in the region’s NHS trusts last year, according to data obtained by this newspaper through the Freedom of Information Act….

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