Nathaniel Shuda reports that Fox River Counseling Center has notified 509 patients of a breach of personal and medical information after a burglary in October that involved the theft of an unsecured laptop. The computer contained outpatient mental health records of clients who visited the center from Nov. 7, 2012, to Aug. 19, 2014, and Wisconsin…
Category: Of Note
Cybersleuth’s scary find: Hackers, some at least Iran-based, can control dated U.S. power grid networks
AP reports: Security researcher Brian Wallace was on the trail of hackers who had snatched a California university’s housing files when he stumbled into a larger nightmare: Cyberattackers had opened a pathway into the networks running the U.S. power grid. Read more on The Japan Times.
Oracle Agrees to Settle FTC Charges It Deceived Consumers About Java Software Updates
From the FTC: Oracle has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers about the security provided by updates to its Java Platform, Standard Edition software (Java SE), which is installed on more than 850 million personal computers. Under the terms of a proposed consent order, Oracle will be required to give consumers the…
Credit card info of donors to pro-Muslim or anti-islamophobia organizations leaked
Update: Post-publication, the Virtue Center web site was taken offline and has not returned as of December 23. An undated entry on another site lists Shakil Islam and Faizan Sattar as “former employers” of VC. At the time of publication, however, they were listed on VC’s web site as part of their team. Follow-up e-mail…
Database leak exposes 3.3 million Hello Kitty fans (UPDATED)
Over on Salted Hash, Steve Ragan reports on yet another MongoDB Database leak uncovered by Chris Vickery. This one involves a database for sanriotown.com, the official online community for Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters. As such, a lot of children’s information may be in the database. The records exposed include first and last names, birthday…
Healthcare industry gets cybersecurity support in omnibus bill
Beth Kutscher reports: The healthcare information technology sector is hailing healthcare-specific cybersecurity provisions that have made their way into the massive omnibus legislation that Congress passed on Friday. The $1.1 trillion spending and tax extender bill, which is now on its way to President Barack Obama, includes language that closely follows the recommendations from the Healthcare Information…