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The Nigerian Spammers From the 90s Have Moved on to Keyloggers and RATs

Posted on June 18, 2017 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: … We’ll be taking a look today at a group of researchers that during the past few months have been reporting malware-infected computers to relevant authorities in countries all over the globe. This team is formed by MalwareHunter, Daniel Gallagher, and a security researcher that goes online only by the name of Guido….

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Personal info of hundreds of thousands of students targeted in schools hack attack

Posted on June 18, 2017 by Dissent

Kyra Gurney reports: Two months before the U.S. presidential election, international hackers slipped into the computer systems of at least four Florida school district networks in the hopes of stealing the personal data of hundreds of thousands of students. They infected the systems with malware — malicious software — that turned off the logs recording…

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NYS settles with CoPilot Provider Services over delayed breach notification to 220,000 patients

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Dissent

There’s a follow-up to an incident reported by DataBreaches.net in January and February involving CoPilot Provider Services. As I had reported in January, CoPilot took more than one year to notify individuals of a breach involving their web site, and would not answer any questions as to why it took so long. As I subsequently…

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HospitalGown Database Leak: Enterprise Apps Found Leaking Data On Back End Servers

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Dissent

AJ Dellinger reports: Mobile apps for enterprise services that manage data are leaving massive troves of user information exposed and unprotected on backend servers, according to a group of security researchers. Experts at Appthority, a mobile security firm, published a report that showed 43 terabytes of data from enterprise apps left exposed. The information was…

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Anthem, AmEx, PayPal, Must Face ID Theft Suit in Calif.

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Dissent

Jimmy H. Koo reports: Health insurance, financial services, and payment card companies failed to keep a California attorney’s identify theft lawsuit in federal court and must face the allegations back in state court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held May 31 ( Gallo v. Unknown No. of Identity Thieves ,…

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Has Booz Allen Hamilton had yet another serious and embarrassing data leak?

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Dissent

So while I was busy trying to get from there to here, UpGuard’s new site, Cyber Resilience, released its first blockbuster report: In what constitutes the latest in a series of blows to the US intelligence community’s reputation for stringent information security, UpGuard’s Cyber Resilience Team can now reveal the discovery by Cyber Risk Analyst…

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