From a new report by InfoArmor: InfoArmor has identified a group of bad actors performing targeted cyberattacks on healthcare institutions and their IT infrastructure, including connected medical devices such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging systems (MRI), X-ray machines and mobile computing healthcare workstations. This group of bad actors has performed at least four successful attacks against…
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9th Circuit: It’s a federal crime to visit a website after being told not to visit it
Orin Kerr writes: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has handed down a very important decision on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Facebook v. Vachani, which I flagged just last week. For those of us worried about broad readings of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the decision is quite troubling. Its reasoning appears…
UG Nazi member “JoshTheGod” sentenced for serial 911 SWAT calls to celebrities’ homes, ID theft
AP reports: Federal authorities on Monday identified a New York man as part of a computer hacking group that called armed police to the homes of 20 U.S. celebrities and other prominent people in 2013 – including CNN television host Wolf Blitzer, National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre, a federal cybercrime prosecutor in Massachusetts and…
CN: Hospital Hackers Steal Thousands of Newborn Baby Videos
Fan Yiying reports: Hackers have got their hands on nearly 6,000 private videos of newborn babies and uploaded them to a video-sharing website, according to a Tuesday report by online news outlet Phoenix New Media. The videos were recorded by the Anhui Women and Children Health Hospital in Hefei, the eastern provincial capital, and were part of…
Not our data, not our server – Amazon Kindle denies hacker’s claims
Jason Murdock reports: Online giant Amazon has hit back at claims that a hacker was able to steal over 80,000 user records belonging to Kindle users from one of its servers. On 8 July, a hacker using the pseudonym 0x2Taylor posted a link on Twitter to a data dump that appeared to consist of thousands…
Datadog chews on data breach
Charlie Osborne reports: Datadog has admitted to becoming a victim of a data breach and has recommended that users immediately revoke and change their credentials. Datadog provides metrics for cloud providers across services, apps and systems, offering software-as-a-service (SaaS) which can integrate with platforms including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Windows Azure, Google’s cloud platform…