Derek Borchardt and Michael F. Buchanan have an update on litigation previously noted on this site. At its heart, a lawsuit claimed a Chicago law firm, Johnson & Bell, had inadequate data security. There was no allegation of any actual breach – the suit was over inadequate data security. Back in December of last year, we reported that for the…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Study: Healthcare Organizations Are Top Targets for Hackers – 68% Have Compromised Email Credentials
Presser, but has some interesting findings: Evolve IP, The Cloud Services Company™, today released the results of a study of Dark Web email vulnerabilities in the healthcare industry. The research, conducted in a collaboration between Evolve IP and ID Agent, reveals the pervasive nature of email-based cybersecurity attacks and sheds light on the quantity, variety, sources…
Has W-2 fraud overtaken healthcare as the most lucrative target for cyber-criminals?
Michael Bruemmer, a vice president with the Experian Data Breach Resolution group, poses a question about whether W-2 fraud has become the most lucrative target for criminals when attacking the healthcare sector. But the data he points to – some of which is based on the work DataBreaches.net is doing with Steve Ragan of Salted Hash,…
Yahoo says 32m user accounts were accessed via cookie forging attack
Asha McLean reports: Yahoo has said that an unauthorised third party accessed the company’s proprietary code to learn how to forge certain cookies, which it said resulted in an intruder accessing approximately 32 million user accounts without a password. “The outside forensic experts have identified approximately 32 million user accounts for which they believe forged…
FCC halts Internet privacy rule that imposes data security requirements on broadband providers
Aaaaaand our privacy protections just took a step backwards. Jim Pazzanghera reports: The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday voted to halt an Internet privacy rule that would have imposed data security requirements on broadband providers. The move, by a 2-1 vote, came after the agency’s new Republican chairman, Ajit Pai, indicated last week that he opposed the provision…
Breaking Baxter: 50 Bugs Show Robots Might Be Super Vulnerable To Cyberattack
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: Are the human gods creating our future robot overlords bestowing their creations with solid cybersecurity? A pair of hackers think not. The researchers, from security consultancy IOActive, claimed Wednesday to have found a whopping 50 vulnerabilities across components of major home and industrial robots. If exploited, those weaknesses could allow remote control of the machines…