Lawrence Abrams reports: Hackers breached ESET’s exclusive partner in Israel to send phishing emails to Israeli businesses that pushed data wipers disguised as antivirus software for destructive attacks. A data wiper is malware that intentionally deletes all of the files on a computer and commonly removes or corrupts the partition table to make it harder to…
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Army to defend small businesses against hackers with NCODE secure cloud enclave pilot
Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. reports: AUSA 2024 — Army undersecretary Gabe Camarillo announced here Tuesday that the service would create a secure online enclave where small businesses can work with sensitive information under the Army’s protection — a potential lifeline for smaller firms struggling to meet Pentagon cybersecurity requirements and defend themselves against high-end threats like China. Known as…
Virginia Contractor Settles False Claims Act Liability for Failing to Secure Medicare Beneficiary Data
Here’s today’s reminder that it’s not just HHS OCR that entities need to be concerned about in terms of enforcement of data security requirements for health data. ASRC Federal Data Solutions LLC (AFDS), headquartered in Reston, Virginia, has agreed to resolve False Claims Act allegations in connection with a government contract related to its storage…
Revenue Cycle Vendor Notifying 400,000 Patients of Hack
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: A Texas-based healthcare revenue cycle management firm is notifying nearly 400,000 individuals of a hacking incident that it says originated with another third party. The incident is among a growing list of major health data breaches implicating vendors and affecting tens of millions of patients so far this year. Gryphon Healthcare…
ADT Says Outside Party Obtained Employee Data in Cybersecurity Incident
Connor Hart reports: ADT is working with third-party cybersecurity experts and federal law enforcement to address an incident in which an outside party had illegally accessed its network, obtaining encrypted employee data. The Boca Raton, Fla., home-security company on Monday said that the outside party, which it called an unauthorized actor, was able to access…
Alaska Corrections contractor denies ACLU claim of ‘massive’ prisoner health data breach
Sage Smiley reports: The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska said that it uncovered a “massive” violation of medical privacy laws by a software company used by the Alaska Department of Corrections. But the software company at the center of the complaint claims that’s “false and misleading,” and that there was no breach of data…