CWN reports: Today a hacker who uses the twitter handle @0x55Taylor posted some screen shots of a breach that was happening at that time, since then i have spoken to them about this breach which appears to affect all users who register at thefly.com a leading digital publisher of real-time financial news between 2006 and…
FERC Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Aimed at Expanding Data Breach Reporting Obligations
Hunton & Williams explains: On December 21, 2017, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NOPR”) aimed at expanding mandatory reporting obligations in relation to cybersecurity incidents. In particular, FERC’s NOPR would direct the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (“NERC”) to develop modifications to certain Critical Infrastructure Protection (“CIP”) Reliability…
“Your (fake) doctor will see you now.”
When it comes to the medical sector, the concern with ID theft is usually the theft of services or the corruption of someone’s medical records in ways that might harm them at some point. But what if the ID theft resulted in someone posing as a doctor and then treating you? Lynh Bui reports that…
Laptop stolen from hospital in Erandwane
TNN reports: One out of the two laptops, used for entering patients’ records, was stolen from the fourth floor of a private hospital in Erandwane on Friday afternoon. Prasad Wahal, a hospital employee, lodged a complaint the with Alankar police. Wavhal told TOI the hospital had kept two laptops in the fourth-floor passage for the…
2018 Arrives and Apache.org Goes Offline
Today its New Years Day 2018 and already we are seeing major issues on the internet with one of the worlds most used popular websites for developers and system admins has gone offline along with a lot of its subdomains. While conducting some research i noticed that apache.org was offline and after checking it i…
Website dumps files from Gottfrid Svartholm, co-owner of torrent site The Pirate Bay
A user on a deepweb forum has posted a thread that lays claim to a leak of data on The Pirate Bay co-owner Gottfrid Svartholm Aka Anakata. The user has posted a short message and a link to file hosting site mega.co.nz that contains a 3gb zip file. After downloading and doing a quick check…