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More than just health concern at coronavirus test sites: Are you exposing your personal information to security risks?

Posted on June 13, 2020 by Dissent

I fear that  numbers on privacy breaches and data breaches stemming from COVID19 or involving COVID19 data are going to be staggering this year. Karina Elwood and Cindy Krischer Goodman report: When Elizabeth Spinelli arrived at Fort Lauderdale’s Holiday Park for a coronavirus test, a nurse handed her a form to write her name, address,…

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Lawsuit Filed Against Accounting Firm in Ransomware Attack That Impacted Patient Data

Posted on June 12, 2020 by Dissent

More coverage of a lawsuit against BST, a CPA firm that is a business associate of Community Care Physicians.  BST had been attacked by Maze ransomware, and when they did not pay the demanded ransom, the ransomware operators started dumping some of the data to increase pressure on them.  Now patients of Community Care Physicians…

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Columbia College Chicago should have shared data breach information sooner, experts say

Posted on June 12, 2020 by Dissent

Kendall Polidori and Mari Devereaux report: Eight days after the school fell victim to an attack by NetWalker, a group of data hackers, Columbia officials sent a collegewide email stating the college is “working diligently around the clock with outside professionals and law enforcement to protect its student community and employees.” The email said individuals…

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FBI Warns Of Increasing Use of Trojans in Banking Apps

Posted on June 12, 2020 by Dissent

Akshaya Asokan reports: The FBI is warning that cybercriminals and fraudsters are increasingly targeting mobile banking apps with malware in order to steal credentials and conduct account takeover attacks. In a public alert published Wednesday, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center warns that fraudsters have increasingly used malicious apps as the COVID-19 pandemic has driven an increasing number of…

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Knoxville ransomware attack shutters parts of city website

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Dissent

Teri Robinson reports: A ransomware attack took out parts of the Knoxville city website but did not compromise personal or financial information. The Tennessee city’s public safety operations were spared, Knoxnews cited Chief Operations Officer David Brace, deputy to the mayor, as saying. Brace said the fire department discovered the attack but didn’t disclose the amount or…

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University of Missouri Health Care discloses 2019 breach

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Dissent

University of Missouri Health Care (MU Health Care) has today disclosed a breach that occurred in September 2019. According to a notification on their site, on September 21, 2019, they became aware that the email accounts of some students who had been seen by their health care system had been accessed without authorization. Those email…

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