Zack Whittaker reports: Security researchers at Google say they’ve found a number of malicious websites which, when visited, could quietly hack into a victim’s iPhone by exploiting a set of previously undisclosed software flaws. Google’s Project Zero said in a deep-dive blog post published late on Thursday that the websites were visited thousands of times…
Ransomware attack impacts hundreds of dental offices
Cassidy Williams reports: Hundreds of dental offices across the country were targeted in a ransomware attack. PerCSoft, IT company that was attacked, is based out of West Allis. It wasn’t immediately clear whether patient data, including Social Security numbers, was compromised. Read more on Fox6. As Catalin Cimpanu reported on ZDNet, PerCSoft collaborated with The…
Google, Medical Center Ask Court to Dismiss Privacy Lawsuit
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: Google and the University of Chicago Medical Center have filed motions to dismiss a class action lawsuit that alleges patients’ electronic health records were not properly de-identified by the hospital before they were shared with Google to support the company’s predictive medical data analytics technology development efforts. The hospital and Google…
U.S. jury indicts suspected Capital One hacker on wire fraud, data theft
Reuters reports: A federal grand jury has indicted the suspected hacker who obtained personal information of over 100 million people in the Capital One Financial Corp data breach on charges of wire fraud and computer data theft, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Wednesday. Read more on Reuters. Here’s the DOJ’s press release…
For Foxit’s sake: PDF editor biz breached, users’ passwords among stolen data
Gareth Corfield reports: Users of software house Foxit’s free and paid-for products, including its popular PhantomPDF editor, may have fallen victim to a data breach – with stolen data including users’ website passwords. Foxit admitted to the breach earlier today, stating that “third parties” had gained access to its My Account user data. Read more…
Madison County parents concerned after social media post about school district hack
Sydney Martin reports: The Facebook post of a former Huntsville school board member has grabbed the attention of many parents. Pam Hill’s post Thursday warns that an Alabama school system was hacked. She said in the post parent, teacher and student information was stolen. She also said the ransom was paid. Hill won’t say which…