Braley Dodson reports: Demographic information for more than 20,000 patients could have been accessed after Utah Valley Eye Center was hacked last year, according to the center. The Provo business’s portal was hacked on June 18, 2018, and an email was sent to 5,764 patients disguised as a notification from PayPal telling the patients they…
Rep. Katie Hill’s husband claimed his computer was ‘hacked’ before her private photos appeared online, report says
Yelena Dzhanova and Dan Mangan report: Rep. Katie Hill, who is resigning her seat in Congress following disclosure of actual and alleged romantic relationships with subordinates, is set to give a final House floor speech Thursday — as two reports raise new questions about the possible role the California Democrat’s estranged husband played in her…
Mongolia arrests 800 Chinese citizens in cybercrime probe
Anthony Cuthbertson reports: Police in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar have apprehended 800 Chinese citizens and confiscated hundreds of computers and mobile phone SIM cards as part of an investigation into a cybercrime ring, local security authorities said. The arrests took place after police raided four locations on Tuesday, and followed two months of investigations,…
It’s “completely ridiculous” that pentesters are still facing criminal charges in Iowa for doing what they were hired to do.
If Iowa doesn’t get its act together, businesses and government will have trouble getting security firms to analyze and test their security. Even after law enforcement was told that Justin Wynn and Gary DeMercurio were Coalfire employees just doing what Coalfire had been hired to do by the judicial branch, the men are still facing…
MESSAGETAP: Who’s Reading Your Text Messages?
Raymond Leong, Dan Perez, and Tyler Dean report: FireEye Mandiant recently discovered a new malware family used by APT41 (a Chinese APT group) that is designed to monitor and save SMS traffic from specific phone numbers, IMSI numbers and keywords for subsequent theft. Named MESSAGETAP, the tool was deployed by APT41 in a telecommunications network…
Hack of Chilean national police exposes more than 10,000 files, including intelligence
I’m going to have to use a Google translation for this one as my Spanish is rusty, but Nicolás Sepúlveda reports on ciperchile.cl about repeated hacks of the Carabineros de Chile, the Chilean national police. The hacks are part of the ongoing political unrest and activism in the country. Sepúlveda reports that CIPER has reviewed…