It appears that a UK hospital has been impacted by a ransomware attack that is disrupting services to patients, although a spokesperson claims this attack is not as severe or widespread as an earlier attack. X News Press reports that NHS Lanarkshire was impacted: “Unfortunately a small number of procedures and appointments have been cancelled as…
Day after doctor’s murder, accused still on the run
Another reminder of the need to revoke access – physical and digital – if you are terminating an employee or student’s position with your organization: Summary: The main accused, suspected to be another postgraduate student working in the radiology department, is still on the run. Sushant Pandey was found with his throat slit inside the…
Turkey Arrests Five Suspects in Qatar News Agency Hacking
Albawaba reports: Qatar has said that five suspected computer hackers have been arrested in Turkey in connection with a cyber attack on Qatar’s state news agency last May. Qatar’s general prosecutor Ali bin Fetais al-Marri said on Friday during a press conference in Ankara that the suspects have been accused of involvement in the attack…
Leak of >1,700 valid passwords could make the IoT mess much worse
Dan Goodin reports: Security researchers have unearthed a sprawling list of login credentials that allows anyone on the Internet to take over home routers and more than 1,700 “Internet of things” devices and make them part of a destructive botnet. The list of telnet-accessible devices, currently posted at this Pastebin address, was first posted in…
Uber Settles With FTC Over Allegedly Deceptive Privacy And Data Security Practices
As I reported earlier this month on PogoWasRight.org, Uber settled privacy and data security charges levied by the Federal Trade Commission. Laura Jehl of BakerHostetler recaps the controversy: Uber, the ride-hailing giant, agreed this week to implement a comprehensive privacy program and to undergo 20 years of privacy and data security audits in order to…
Aadhaar data leak: Govt deny claims by WikiLeaks
ZeeBiz Web Team reports: Days after a foreign media report which quoted WikiLeaks saying that the company which provides devices to record biometric data for Aadhaar may have compromised the sensitive data, now, the Indian government has “declined” the claims. The government officials said that claims which said that the data has been “leaked” is…