Scott Ikeda reports: On June 12th the Vietnamese National Assembly voted in a new cybersecurity law. The legislation did not come easily having gone through more than 12 drafts and much debate in government and the business sector. The claimed purposes of the legislation are to increase Vietnam’s Internet sovereignty, that is the data of…
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Samsam infected thousands of LabCorp systems via brute force RDP
Steve Ragan reports: LabCorp, one of the largest clinical labs in the U.S., said the Samsam ransomware attack that forced their systems offline was contained quickly and didn’t result in a data breach. However, in the brief time between detection and mitigation, the ransomware was able to encrypt thousands of systems and several hundred production…
UK: Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse fined £200,000 for revealing identities of possible abuse victims in mass email
From the Information Commissioner’s Office, this press release: The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has been fined £200,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office(ICO) after sending a bulk email that identified possible victims of non-recent child sexual abuse. The Inquiry, set up in 2014 to investigate the extent to which institutions failed to protect…
Thousands of patient records held for ransom in Ontario home care data breach, attackers claim
Matthew Braga, Lori Ward, Andrew Culbert report: The detailed medical histories and contact information of possibly tens of thousands of home-care patients in Ontario are allegedly being held for ransom by thieves who recently raided the computer systems of a health-care provider. CarePartners, which provides home medical care services on behalf of the Ontario government,…
LabCorp hacked? Investigation under way (UPDATED)
Ryan Parry reports: Hackers breached the network of one of the largest clinical laboratories in America sparking fears of a major cyber security breach, DailyMail.com can reveal. According to a company insider senior managers were informed that the entire computer network of LabCorp, a Fortune 500 company, was shut down across the US Sunday morning…
Mueller indicts 12 Russians for hacking into DNC
Josh Gerstein, Darren Samuelsohn, and Cory Bennett report: Special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian military officers on Friday, and accused them of hacking into the Democratic National Committee to sabotage the 2016 presidential election. The indictments, announced by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, come just days before a scheduled Monday summit in Helsinki between…