It appears the FTC acted on a complaint I filed with them last year concerning Henry Schein Dental’s use of the word “encryption” in their marketing and their refusal to individually notify customers that the “encryption” provided by Dentrix G5 was not NIST-grade encryption that would give them Safe Harbor under HIPAA. Background on my concerns…
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Nigerian charged in email scam is in custody in Dallas
Kevin Krause reports: A Nigerian man living in the U.S. on a student visa faces federal wire fraud charges in connection with a sophisticated email phishing scam targeting businesses. Amechi Colvis Amuegbunam, 28, of Lagos, Nigeria, was arrested in Baltimore in August and charged with scamming 17 North Texas companies out of more than $600,000…
Criminal Hackers Target Police to Protest Perceived Injustices
Looks like DHS/FBI figured out that people were getting really, really angry over “perceived” injustices and “alleged” use of excessive force. Page Count: 1 page Date: May 8, 2015 Restriction: For Official Use Only Originating Organization: Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation File Type: pdf File Size: 264,818 bytes File Hash (SHA-256):C433AF5A1A1DB72EC7338EB28F4B76BD96509071496809B713DF56BB21ADBAED U//FOUO) Disruptive cyber attacks by criminal hackers—primarily…
CT: Data Security Breach at Middlesex Hospital: 946 Patients Impacted
Samantha Schoenfeld reports: Middlesex Hospital in Middletown says that it suffered a data breach in October. The hospital says that on October 9, it was discovered that four of the hospital’s employees had been victims of an email phishing scam, which allowed a breach into the hospital’s records. In all, information for 946 patients may…
Hackers Held Data on 5,000 Canadians Hostage and the Government Didn’t Tell Anyone
Justin Ling reports: Last year, a clever piece of code grabbed the computers of a foreign company, and held them hostage — detaining information on 5,000 Canadian passport applicants in the process. It was another Cryptowall case, but the foreign company was not named, and those Canadians whose passport applications were caught up in the incident…
Armada Collective threatens Greek banks with DDoS if they don’t pay $7.2M ransom
Ashley Carman reports: Three unnamed Greek banks are the most recent victims of an extortion campaign in which a hacker group is attempting to fully take down their websites. The group, calling itself the Armada Collective, apparently made its first demand on Thursday of last week, at which point it also launched the first of…