Sara Merken reports: The Federal Trade Commission is issuing specific data security requirements to companies as part of agency settlements, policing businesses more aggressively than before, attorneys and former staff said. Proposed settlements reached this year with LightYear Dealer Technologies LLC, ClixSense.com, Unixiz Inc, and D-Link Systems Inc. show what the FTC is expecting in…
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Author of multiple IoT botnets pleads guilty
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A 21-year-old from Vancouver, Washington pleaded guilty today to creating and operating multiple iterations of DDoS botnets made up of home routers and other networking and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Kenneth Currin Schuchman, known online as Nexus Zeta, rented access to these botnets to others, but he also used the botnets…
Student surprise: malware masked as textbooks and essays
From the Kaspersky Team, this useful alert: We have written on numerous occasions about how easy it is to inadvertently pick up some nasty stuff when you try to download popular TV shows or game cheats. However, cybercriminals do not just limit themselves to entertainment products. You can also stumble upon a virus when looking…
Ransomware attack impacts hundreds of dental offices
Cassidy Williams reports: Hundreds of dental offices across the country were targeted in a ransomware attack. PerCSoft, IT company that was attacked, is based out of West Allis. It wasn’t immediately clear whether patient data, including Social Security numbers, was compromised. Read more on Fox6. As Catalin Cimpanu reported on ZDNet, PerCSoft collaborated with The…
NASA Astronaut Accused of Identity Theft in First Criminal Allegation from Space
Jami Ganz reports: The situation is out of this world. Anne McClain, a NASA astronaut and lieutenant colonel in the Army, is facing accusations that she committed identity theft through the “improper access” of her estranged wife’s “private financial records,” The New York Times reported. Former Air Force intelligence officer Summer Worden didn’t understand how…
Feds: PainMD’s abandoned medical records at risk of being burned, shredded
Brett Kelman reports: Federal and state prosecutors have asked a judge to halt the destruction of thousands of medical records abandoned by PainMD, a Nashville-area pain clinic company that shut down earlier this year in the midst of a fraud investigation. The medical records, which could be evidence against PainMD or important to former patients, are currently stuck…