Hope started as a school in Illinois for children with disabilities, but it expanded its mission over the years. This is a notification they posted on August 3: Vision for Hope (“Hope”) recently discovered an incident that may have involved the personal information or protected health information of some of its patients or other individuals….
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By Ben Seri and Barak Hadad Nine vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure used by 80% of major hospitals in North America. Swisslog’s Translogic Pneumatic Tube System (PTS), a solution that plays a crucial role in patient care, found vulnerable to devastating attack. Read more on ARMIS.
NY: Prosecutors push to sentence SUNY Plattsburgh hacker to four years in prison
Fernando Alba reports: Federal prosecutors are pushing to sentence SUNY Plattsburgh alumnus Nicholas Faber to up to four years in prison for hacking into students’ accounts and stealing explicit and compromising photos, according to court documents. Faber, 25, of Rochester, pleaded guilty to aggravated Identity theft and computer intrusion causing damage offenses in February, saying…
SolarWinds urges US judge to toss out crap infosec sueball: We got pwned by actual Russia, give us a break
Gareth Corfield reports: SolarWinds is urging a US federal judge to throw out a lawsuit brought against it by aggrieved shareholders who say they were misled about its security posture in advance of the infamous Russian attack on the business. Insisting that it was “the victim of the most sophisticated cyberattack in history” in a…
Paxton Newspaper Employees’ Data Copied, Company Reveals
Kyle Massey reports: Paxton Media Group of Paducah, Kentucky, which owns the Jonesboro Sun, the Batesville Guard, the Daily Citizen of Searcy and other Arkansas newspapers, suffered a cyber attack that potentially compromised employees’ birthdates, Social Security numbers and banking data. The newspaper chain, which has been in acquisition mode, owns a total of 120…
Research finds cyber-snoops working for ‘Chinese state interests’ lurking in SE Asian telco networks since 2017
Gareth Halfacree reports: Attack protection specialist Cybereason has fingered threat actors working on behalf of “Chinese state interests” as being behind attacks on telcos operating in Southeast Asia – with some having been prowling the penetrated networks for information on high-value targets since 2017. Cybereason’s DeadRinger report, published today, described the attacks as being carried out…