Catalin Cimpanu reports: 2019 will be remembered as the year when major security bugs were disclosed in a large number of enterprise VPN servers, such as those sold by Pulse Secure, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and Citrix. Read more on ZDNet.
Category: Of Note
1 in 6 Massachusetts Communities Hit by ‘Ransomware’ Attacks
Ryan Kath and Jim Haddadin report: Inside the Bay State, a handful of attacks against cities and towns have garnered widespread attention, though the problem may be more prevalent than many imagine. Records obtained by the NBC10 Boston Investigators show dozens of Massachusetts communities have quietly negotiated ransomware attacks, sometimes taking days or weeks to…
Threat Vector Number 1
Britton White is a cybersecurity & HIPAA Compliance advisor. The following article is reproduced with his kind permission. Email is the bane of our existence and the number one threat vector….. there’s no other way to say it. I’ve rummaged through over 30 hospitals and hundreds of clinics (some multiple times) in my time conducting…
US government goes all in to expose new malware used by North Korean hackers
Dan Goodin reports: The US Pentagon, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security on Friday exposed a North Korean hacking operation and provided technical details for seven pieces of malware used in the campaign. The US Cyber National Mission Force, an arm of the Pentagon’s US Cyber Command, said on Twitter that the malware is “currently…
Personal information of 144,000 Canadians mishandled by federal bureaucracies
Sam McGriskin reports: The personal information of 144,000 Canadians has been mishandled by federal departments and agencies over the last two years according to the House of Commons figures. CBC News reported that the Privacy Commissioner’s office noted that they saw “strong indications of systemic under-reporting.” Many people who were affected by the privacy breaches were…
New York state school districts face deadline to improve cyber security
Celia Watson Seupel reports: Protecting Saugerties school district data from hackers could cost $70,000 annually — money that’s “not going to improve the quality of education,” Board of Education Trustee Krista Barringer said. […] Protecting school district data from hackers has become mandatory. A new regulation adopted by the state Board of Regents took effect Jan. 29,…