Costas Pitas and Carlos Ruano report: A global cyberattack leveraging hacking tools widely believed by researchers to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency hit international shipper FedEx, disrupted Britain’s health system and infected computers in nearly 100 countries on Friday. Cyber extortionists tricked victims into opening malicious malware attachments to spam emails…
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Developing: Multiple NHS trusts across England disrupted by ransomware attack
Digital Health is reporting: Multiple hospitals across England have been hit by a large-scale cyber attack on Friday afternoon, with trusts switching off systems. NHS Digital confirmed to Digital Health News that it is aware of a “cyber security incident”. Sources told Digital Health News that there was a major N3 cyber security issue on…
NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-breaking Computer Project to Entire Internet
Sam Biddle reports: IN EARLY DECEMBER 2016, Adam was doing what he’s always doing, somewhere between hobby and profession: looking for things that are on the internet that shouldn’t be. That week, he came across a server inside New York University’s famed Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputing, headed by the brilliant Chudnovsky brothers, David and Gregory. The…
Confidential medical records from Bronx-Lebanon Hospital exposed online by vendor’s error
Vendor’s error appears to have exposed personal and confidential medical data of patients seen at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center since 2014; Records also include addiction histories, psych histories, and histories of physical or sexual abuse; Hospital investigating to determine what happened and who may have accessed data. By now, you may be tired of reading reports on misconfigured MongoDB installations…
TheDarkOverlord dumps 180,000 patients’ records from 3 hacks
While thousands of their followers on Twitter seem to be eagerly waiting for TheDarkOverlord (TDO) to dump more tv films or episodes of popular series, TDO went non-fiction this morning, dumping patient/medical records from some of their hacks in the healthcare sector last year. All told, almost 180,000 patients had their personal information shared with the world. Two of…
Hundreds of thousands of kids have identity info hacked from pediatricians’ offices
As Robert Lord of Protenus explains in the May issue of Compliance Today, pediatric patient data continues to remain not only vulnerable to criminals, but also quite valuable to them, in part because the medical records of these young patients provide criminals a blank slate upon which they can build a false identity. This—combined with the fact…