The Office of Inadequate Security
The following is a machine translation of a report at the Russian news outlet, Kommersant, concerning the sentencing of four members of the REvil ransomware group: On Friday, October 25, the St. Petersburg Garrison Military Court announced the verdict against Artem Zayets, Aleksey Malozemov, Daniil Puzyrevsky and Ruslan Khansvyarov. The court found them guilty of…
Microsoft writes: The healthcare sector faces a rapidly increasing range of cybersecurity threats, with ransomware attacks emerging as one of the most significant. A combination of valuable patient data, interconnected medical devices, and small IT/cybersecurity operations staff, which spreads resources thin, can make healthcare organizations prime targets for threat actors. As healthcare operations become increasingly digitized—ranging…
On October 23, the Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore issued three undertakings with the follow statement: The new Undertakings reveals breaches stemming from various ransomware attacks due to the insufficient security IT measures implemented, affecting the personal data of over 690,000 individuals. In response, the affected organisations are to implement remediation plans to rectify the…
Washington D.C., Oct. 22, 2024 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged four current and former public companies – Unisys Corp., Avaya Holdings Corp., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, and Mimecast Limited – with making materially misleading disclosures regarding cybersecurity risks and intrusions. The SEC also charged Unisys with disclosure controls and procedures violations….
Censys recently published a new research report that looks at exposed data on the internet involving healthcare devices and systems connected to PHI. Here’s their Executive Summary: Censys discovered 14,004 unique IP addresses exposing healthcare devices and data systems connected to potentially sensitive medical information on the public internet. These exposures greatly raise the risk of unauthorized…
Sammy Heung reports: Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has found a prominent sports club had been in breach of privacy regulations in the run-up to a large-scale leak involving about 72,000 members’ personal information. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said on Tuesday that the South China Athletic Association (SCAA) had failed to…