Every so often, a natural disaster reminds us of other ways records are lost and why entities should have offsite backups that are regularly updated. Ishvarya Lakshmi reports: Patient records, medical instruments, drugs, syringes, needles and sanitary pads in several urban primary health centres (UPHC) were swept away during the recent cyclone. Officials at the…
Google discovers another Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild
Daryna Antoniuk reports: Google Chrome has released an emergency security fix for a zero-day flaw that has been exploited in the wild. This vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-7024, affects the desktop versions of the browser on Mac, Linux and Windows. It is the eighth actively exploited zero-day in Chrome discovered since the start of 2023. Clément…
College of the Canyons alerts employees to third-party ransomware attack
Tyler Wainfeld reports: College of the Canyons is communicating with more than 2,400 affected personnel after an unauthorized data breach through its insurance provider, according to Eric Harnish, a spokesman for the college. Keenan & Associates, a Torrance-based consulting and brokerage firm which has the Santa Clarita Community College District as one of its clients,…
Self-proclaimed hackers take credit for computer problems at Liberty Hospital
Andy Alcock reports from Missouri: A blackmail message from an apparent hacker appears to be the reason Liberty Hospital computer systems crashed Tuesday. KMBC exclusively obtained that message. The message from an unknown source says in part, “We have hacked you and downloaded all confidential data of your company. And it can be spread out…
The Five Families disrupted after SiegedSec hacked; SiegedSec thrown out, Blog Hijacked (1)
AlphV wasn’t the only group experiencing some disruption this week In August, “The Five Families” announced the collaboration of ThreatSec, SiegedSec, Stormous, BlackForums (now BlackSec), and GhostSec: A group created to establish better unity and connections for everyone in the underground world of the internet, to expand and grow our work and operations. We run…
Court of Justice of the European Union Rules That Fear May Constitute Damage Under the GDPR
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On December 14, 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) issued its judgment in the case of VB v. Natsionalna agentsia za prihodite (C‑340/21), in which it clarified, among other things, the concept of non-material damage under Article 82 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the rules…