Chris Williams reports: Dell says it will publish a guide to remove the web security backdoor it installed in its Windows laptops and desktop PCs. This confirms what we all know by now – that Dell was selling computers with a rather embarrassing hole it in their defenses. New models from the XPS, Precision and…
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Ca: Hospital clerk fined $36,000 for selling patient records
Jacques Gallant has a follow-up to a case that I’ve been covering on this site since it was first disclosed: A former Rouge Valley hospital records clerk was fined $36,000 and given two years of probation on Monday for selling thousands of maternity patient records to RESP firms. Shaida Bandali, 62, pleaded guilty earlier this…
Follow-up to Boyd Hospital breach
Remember the case in Illinois where Boyd Hospital had stored patient records in a building that was later sold as surplus? The hospital claimed it didn’t know the new owner was taking possession of the building, which is why the patient records were still in there when the new owner took possession of the premises….
Insurer moves to dismiss BitPay’s lawsuit
In September, it was reported that BitPay was suing its insurer, Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company, for reimbursement of $1.8M funds lost in a phishing attack in December 2014. Now the insurance company has moved to dismiss the suit. Stan Higgins reports: However, in a 17th November court filing, MBIC has stated that it believes it was justified in…
FastMail falls over as web service extortionists widen attacks and up their prices
Although the DDoS attack and extortion demand made on ProtonMail was the first to draw a lot of media attention – possibly because ProtonMail paid the demand – Hushmail, Runbox, Zoho, and VFEMail were also hit with DDoS attacks, seemingly by the hackers who call themselves the Armada Collective. Neomailbox was also hit, and now Iain Thompson reports that FastMail was hit, too:…
More websites hit by Armada Collective DDoS blackmail attacks, but won’t pay up
Graham Cluley reports: An online criminal gang calling itself the “Armada Collective” has been demanding that online businesses pay thousands of dollars in Bitcoins, or face having their websites brought to their knees by crippling internet attacks. And, as the DDoS experts at Akamai point out, it is online companies who have the most to lose…