WCJB reports: The city manager of Lake City, Joe Helfenberg confirmed that the director of information technology, Brian Hawkins, was fired. This decision comes after a “Triple Threat” cyber attack that disabled city servers, phones, and email that resulted in ransom. Lake City paid $460,000 in ransom for a cyber attack through the cyber cryptocurrency,…
Defendants file motions to dismiss in case about Marshall med school sharing personal info
Kyla Asbury reports: Three motions to dismiss were filed in a case against Marshall University‘s medical school for divulging personal information that caused a student humiliation. [,,,] J.M.A. claims his personal information was entrusted to the defendants and was made accessible to unwanted third parties. In 2012, J.M.A. had x-rays done, however, later his unredacted…
Former Equifax employee sentenced for insider trading
ATLANTA, JUNE 27 – Jun Ying, the former Chief Information Officer of Equifax U.S. Information Solutions, has been sentenced to federal prison for insider trading. “Ying thought of his own financial gain before the millions of people exposed in this data breach even knew they were victims,” said U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak. “He…
Pre-2013 Medtronic insulin pumps could be vulnerable to hacking
Joe Carlson reports: Medtronic is warning thousands of users of its older insulin pumps worldwide that the devices may contain a serious cybersecurity vulnerability allowing a malicious hacker to change drug-delivery settings and send the patient into a diabetic emergency. The warning applies to Medtronic insulin pumps that were introduced to the market before 2013….
Bulgarian IT Specialist in Detention For Vulnerability Demonstration
A reader, Devrimer Duman, alerted me to the following situation, but the original source is in Bulgarian, so I’m going to post the beginning part of Google’s translation: Petko Petkov, the founder of the largest IT space in Stara Zagora, was arrested for 24 hours for a video on Facebook with a demonstration pointing out…
Jack’d To Pay $240K For Private Photos Leak
Devin Randall reports: Jack’d is paying out money make up for its picture leak. Earlier this year, we shared with you how a single tech expert Oliver Hough discovered that there was a large hole in Jack’d’s code. It turns out, the company did not properly secure photos and data uploaded using Amazon Web Services…