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Data of almost 3,000 patients experiencing emergency symptoms exposed online by MedCall Advisors

Posted on September 14, 2018 by Dissent

Have you ever wished you could just pick up a phone and get an emergency room physician on the phone to advise you in an emergency? Well,  it seems that you can. According to their website, North Carolina-based Medcall Advisors is a “Workers Compensation and Healthcare Solutions” provider offering a comprehensive tele-emergent care medical service…

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Files With 42 Million Emails and Passwords Found On Free Hosting Service

Posted on September 14, 2018 by Dissent

Ionut Ilascu reports: A huge database with email addresses, passwords in clear text, and partial credit card data has been uploaded to a free, public hosting service. The operator of the sharing service sent the set to Troy Hunt, Australian security researcher and creator of the Have I Been Pwned data breach index site, to…

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Russian hacker pleads guilty for role in Kelihos botnet

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Dissent

Olivia Beavers reports: A renowned Russian hacker on Wednesday pleaded guilty in a U.S. District Court for his involvement in the Kelihos botnet, a global network of hijacked computers that he used to obtain users’ private or financial information. The Kelihos botnet harvested thousands of login credentials, spewed out a bulk of spam e-mails and…

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Notorious Guccifer Hacker to Be Extradited to U.S. to Serve Jail Time, Court Rules

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Dissent

A Romanian court ruled Monday that a notorious hacker known as Guccifer will be extradited to the U.S. to serve a four-year and four-month jail sentence after he finishes his seven-year sentence in his home country. Guccifer, whose real name is Marcel Lazar Lehel, broke into the email accounts of former Secretary of State Colin…

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Lifting the lid off cybercrime: Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Digest

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Dissent

Clare Ward writes: Once again, Verizon has opened the doors on the reality of a data breach with the launch of the Verizon 2018 Data Breach Digest (DBD) series, enabling businesses to read undisclosed stories from the company’s cyber-investigative vault. The Data Breach Digest series puts cybercrime in context, outlining the (anonymized) specifics of data…

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Like Moths to a Flame

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Dissent

Doug Levin has a great piece on a real case of curious students exploring their K-12 district’s network. Of course, they “shouldn’t” have done that, right? Every adult in the room knows that, and the kids knew it, too. But the temptation was just soooooo great. So do read The Case of ‘Joseph Jones’ and the…

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