Heather Landi reports: The federal government needs to provide more resources and incentives to help healthcare organizations better protect their IT systems and data from cyberattacks, according to health IT security leaders. Currently, the Department of Health and Human Services’ privacy and security standards are too focused on compliance and are unduly punitive to healthcare…
Indian govt agency left details of millions of pregnant women exposed online
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A database managed by an Indian government healthcare agency was left connected to the Internet without a password, where it exposed more than 12.5 million medical records for pregnant women, ZDNet has learned. Records go as far back as five years, to 2014, and include detailed medical information for women who underwent…
Russia blocks encrypted mail service provider ProtonMail
Tamer Sameeh reports: Russian federal authorities have directed internet service providers across the country to block access to ProtonMail, an encrypted email service provider, as confirmed by the company’s CEO. The block order came directly from the Russian Federal Security Service, which was formerly known as the KGB. As reported via a Russian blog post…
Bezos Investigation Finds the Saudis Obtained His Private Data
NewsMax reports: Saudi Arabia had access to Jeff Bezos’s phone and acquired his personal data and photos, Gavin de Becker, a security consultant for Amazon.com Inc.’s founder and chief executive officer, wrote in the Daily Beast. The investigation “concluded with high confidence that the Saudis had access to Bezos’s phone, and gained his private information,”…
Homeland Security issues warning about serious Medtronic flaw that might allow hackers to tamper with cardiac devices
I guess it’s not “click-bait” when the federal government issues a warning on it. But before you panic, read through the full DHS advisory below to see under what conditions this could potentially happen. And now that I’ve given you the “don’t panic yet” advice, I will readily admit that when my mother got a…
One month later, Taos Municipal Schools District still working to recover from ransomware attack
Jesse Moya has an update on the Taos Municipal Schools District ransomware incident that occurred on February 28. On March 22, we had reported that three weeks later, the district was still working on recovering from the attack. As of March 28, they have continued to make progress, but they have not totally restored everything…