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Safeguard your network and customer credentials: Tips from the latest FTC data security case

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Dissent

One of the other enforcement actions the FTC has taken stems from the ClixSense breach in 2016. Lesley Fair of the FTC writes: Suppose a lunch companion says, “I think there’s something wrong with this tuna salad.” To determine if the problem is tuna not to their taste vs. tuna gone bad, would you scarf…

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MA: Medical billing service notifies patients of ransomware incident

Posted on April 24, 2019 by Dissent

Massachusetts-headquartered Doctors’ Management Service, Inc. provides medical billing services to physicians and hospitals. You may never have heard of them, but your hospital or physician might have provided them with your protected health information if your doctor or hospital contracts with them. This week, DMS sent notice of what they strangely describe as a “recent…

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Marcus Hutchins’ plea leaves unsettled whether writing certain types of code is illegal – Ekeland

Posted on April 24, 2019 by Dissent

In May, 2017, a young man from the U.K. became known as an “accidental hero” for saving the world from the further spread of WannaCry ransomware. But months later, this same hero, Marcus Hutchins, known online as @MalwareTech, was arrested in the U.S. as he tried to fly home after attending the Black Hat and…

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Supply Chain Hackers Snuck Malware Into Videogames

Posted on April 24, 2019 by Dissent

Andy Greenberg reports: The security sector is waking up to the insidious threat posed by software supply chain attacks, where hackers don’t attack individual devices or networks directly, but rather the companies that distribute the code used by their targets. Now researchers at security firms Kaspersky and ESET have uncovered evidence that the same hackers…

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Embassies targeted by hackers with bogus State Dept. spreadsheet: Report

Posted on April 24, 2019 by Dissent

Andrew Blake reports: Embassies in Europe have wound up on the receiving end of an ongoing hacking campaign with roots in Russia, a multinational cybersecurity firm warned Monday. Researchers at Check Point reported becoming aware of a weaponized spreadsheet being emailed to targets described as “government finance authorities and representatives in several embassies in Europe.”…

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FL: Stuart’s city hall ransomware attack “more than likely” caused by phishing email scam

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Dissent

Melissa E. Holsman reports: The city is still recovering from an April 13 ransomware virus attack that most likely came from a phishing email scam on an employee’s desktop computer, the city manager said Monday. A computer virus dubbed Ryuk attacked the city’s servers in a ransomware demand that City Manager David Dyess said forced…

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