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WhatsApp urges users to upgrade app after security breach

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Dissent

Steven Scheer reports: Facebook’s WhatsApp urged users to upgrade to the latest version of its popular messaging app after reporting that users might be vulnerable to having malicious spyware installed on phones without their knowledge. […] Earlier, the Financial Times (FT) reported that a vulnerability in WhatsApp allowed attackers to inject spyware on phones by ringing…

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Paterson Public Schools hacked, but when, and where are the data now? (UPDATE 1)

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Dissent

Jayed Rahman reports that Paterson Public Schools in New Jersey was hacked. The attacker allegedly acquired 23,103 account passwords and other computer access tokens. Information stolen in the breach includes desktop logins, email usernames and passwords, and laptop credentials. For example, the email usernames and passwords of all school district employees — including that of…

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Oregon Health Authority provides early notification to Oregon State Hospital patients of a phishing incident

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Dissent

I realize that some will fault the entity for making early notification before they have all the facts, but my hat is off to the Oregon Health Authority (OHA).  On May 6, they suffered – and quickly stopped – a successful spear-phishing attack that gave the attacker access to one employee’s mail account. That account…

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Numbers from the OS, Inc. breach dribble in…

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Dissent

OS, Inc. provides revenue management (billing) services to covered entities. I recently reported on a phishing-related breach they experienced in 2018 that was first disclosed this month. As I noted in that post, their notification specifically mentioned a number of their affected clients. Their disclosure did not, however, provide a total number of patients affected,…

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Personal and health insurance information of most of Panama’s citizenry found in unsecured database

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Dissent

Bob Diachenko reports that he found an unprotected and publicly available Elasticsearch cluster containing what appears to be 3,427,396 records of Panamanian citizens. According to Diachenko, each record in tables labeled “patient” contained the following info: full name date of birth national ID number (cedula) medical insurance number (poliza seguro medico) phone email address other…

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Your most sensitive data is likely exposed online. These people try to find it

Posted on May 11, 2019 by Dissent

Laura Huatala has a nice piece about those who hunt for leaking databases, find them, and then try to get companies to secure them.  I am honored to have been included in her CNET report with the likes of Chris Vickery, Justin Paine, and Bob Diachenko.

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