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IN: Ransomware attack forces emergency shutdown of Lake County government servers, IT working through weekend to purge system

Posted on August 25, 2019 by Dissent

Will Racke and Anna Ortiz report: Lake County has been hit with a cyber attack that forced the shutdown of email service and several internal applications throughout county government, officials said Friday. [..] As of Thursday afternoon, the county’s IT staff was installing cyber security software on 3,000 individual employee laptops, Mark Pearman, director of…

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Portland Public Schools Recovers $2.9 Million Lost in BEC Scam

Posted on August 24, 2019 by Dissent

Sergiu Gatlan reports: Oregon urban school district Portland Public Schools is on track to recover roughly $2.9 million wired by district employees to a BEC scammer, after discovering the fraudulent transactions before the money left the fraudster’s accounts. Portland Public Schools is a PK-12 urban school district in Portland, Oregon, with over 49,000 students enrolled in 81 schools,…

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Rockville Centre pays almost $100G to hackers after ransomware attack, officials say

Posted on August 24, 2019 by Dissent

Joie Tyrrell reports: The Rockville Centre school district paid almost $100,000 to restore its data after being hacked with a ransomware virus that encrypted files on the system’s server until payment was made to unlock the information, officials said Friday. The Nassau County district was among several statewide targeted by a ransomware virus that encrypts…

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Valve patches recent Steam zero-days, calls turning away researcher ‘a mistake’

Posted on August 24, 2019 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: Gaming giant Valve has called turning away a security researcher who reported a vulnerability in the company’s Steam gaming client “a mistake.” A Valve representative told ZDNet in an email today that the company has shipped fixes for the Steam client, updated its bug bounty program rules, and is reviewing the researcher’s…

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Privacy Incident at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Neurology Department

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Dissent

August 22, Boston —  Massachusetts General Hospital (“MGH”) is notifying approximately 9,900 individuals of a privacy incident involving MGH’s Department of Neurology in connection with some of its research programs. On June 24, 2019, MGH learned that an unauthorized third party had access to databases related to two computer applications used by researchers in the…

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Hospital Not Liable for Facebook Post of Patient Medical Records

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Dissent

Mary Anne Pazanowski reports that once again, a court has ruled that an employer is not liable for what an employee does if they the employee was not acting within the scope of their employment duties: An Indiana hospital isn’t liable for an employee’s unauthorized actions that allegedly led to the posting of a patient’s…

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