Matt Jordan reports: There’s a place for Blockchain in the Healthcare environment, whether individual providers are choosing to adopt it or not. With the current health crisis rocking our country, and even our world, sending patients to ICU or bed-ridden and unable to leave their homes to receive care and diagnoses from their medical professionals….
Pepperstone Updates Clients on Data Breach Investigation
Aziz Abdel-Qader reports: Multi-regulated FX broker Pepperstone has just updated its clients about the data security breach that occurred just over a week ago. The company said the security issue had originated from one of its third-party vendors after cybercriminals used malware to compromise its computers and obtained access to the provider’s credentials. Not so long after…
SPARTOO: sanction of 250,000 euros and injunction under penalty to comply with the GDPR
From the CNIL, the French data protection authority: SPARTOO is specialized in the online shoe sales sector. For this activity, it has a website accessible in thirteen countries of the European Union. The CNIL inspected the company in May 2018, and noted shortcomings concerning the data of customers, prospects and employees. The President of the CNIL therefore…
Intel investigating breach after 20GB of internal documents leak online
Catalin Cimpanu reports: US chipmaker Intel is investigating a security breach after earlier today 20 GB of internal documents, with some marked “confidential” or “restricted secret,” were uploaded online on file-sharing site MEGA. The data was published by Till Kottmann, a Swiss software engineer, who said he received the files from an anonymous hacker who…
Capital One fined $80 million for 2019 hack of 100 million credit card applications
Devlin Barrett reports: Capital One has agreed to pay an $80 million fine to U.S. regulators over a major hacking incident last year in which authorities say about 100 million credit card applications were illegally accessed. The Virginia-based bank with a popular credit card business said it has taken steps to tighten security around its…
Hacker leaks passwords for 900+ enterprise VPN servers
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A hacker has published today a list of plaintext usernames and passwords, along with IP addresses for more than 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers. ZDNet, which obtained a copy of this list with the help of threat intelligence firm KELA, verified its authenticity with multiple sources in the cyber-security community. Read more…