Ertuğrul Can Canbolat LL.M., Baran Can Yildirim, LL.M. and S. İrem Akin of Actecon write: Article 12 of the Turkish Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“TurkishData Protection Law“) entitled “Obligations Regarding Data Security” deals with the obligations of the data controller. Article 12/1 of the Turkish Data Protection Law states the data controller shall take…
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New Decryption Tool Released for GandCrab Ransomware, Available on No More Ransom
Press Release: The wait for the victims of GandCrab is over: a new decryption tool has been released today for free on the No More Ransom depository for the latest strand of GandCrab, one of the world’s most prolific ransomware to date. This tool was developed by the Romanian Police in close collaboration with the…
Healthcare hotline: Millions of medical advice calls exposed in Sweden
John Leyden reports: Calls recorded by a Swedish national health service hotline were stored on an unencrypted system that was publicly accessible to anyone with an internet connection, it has emerged. An estimated 2.7 million phone calls were discovered to have been left open by an unprotected NAS (network attached storage) system, and were accessible…
MalwareTech’s Judge Seems More Sympathetic to Hutchins about the Intent of Prosecution than the Law
emptywheel writes: JP Stadtmueller, the judge who will preside over MalwareTech (Marcus Hutchins’) case, last week denied his pretrial motions to get his post-arrest interview and all the charges of his indictment thrown out. So right, that’s not great news for Marcus, or even good news. But to get a better understanding of how the case is…
AZ Plastic Surgery Center refuses thedarkoverlord’s “handsome” proposition, notifies patients and HHS of hack
Yet another healthcare provider has revealed that they were hacked by thedarkoverlord (TDO). Dr. Robert Spies, a plastic surgeon in Scottsdale, Arizona, has notified HHS and his patients of the hackers’ attempt to extort the practice. Although he does not name the hackers responsible in a notice on his web site, Dr. Spies explains: On…
NE: CHI Health officials say virus introduced to health system’s network by third-party vendor’s infected device
So let’s be honest: how often do you monitor your third-party vendors or business associates to ensure that the devices they may connect to your network are free from malware? Julie Anderson reports: CHI Health has caught a virus, but it’s not the kind the health system is used to battling. Dr. Cliff Robertson, CHI…