Shay Harris reports: United States Veteran Levern Garner received a letter from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Memphis two weeks before Christmas. “The letter stated some information had come up missing off the VA property,” said Garner. The missing documents included Garner’s personal information to be exact. According to the letter written by VA…
Vendors aren't interested in cybersecurity, medtech hacker says
Arezu Sarvestani reports: Cybersecurity expert and medical device hacker Florian Grunow has faced more hurdles than help in trying to get medical device companies interested in putting security measures into their network-connected devices, he told an audience at last year’s European DeepSec conference. Vendors aren’t thinking about security and they’re not interested in discussing it…
Reading Rockets Hacked, 5,000+ Accounts and Credentials Leaked
Hacker group @DeleteSec has been making a bit of noise in the leak scene over the past month or so and one of its recent targets is ReadingRockets.org> Reading Rockets is a national multimedia literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults…
#OpIndependence. Vitali Klitschko’s UDAR party hacked. Confidential data leaked
Hello We are Anonymous Ukraine We promised to strike at the web resources of Western hirelings and fascists that are trying to hurl Ukraine into chaos. For a start we’ve hacked e-mail account of one of the regional offices of the Vitali Klitschko’s UDAR party and downloaded all the stuff we found there. We strongly…
Thousands hit in Tesco.com attack
Mark Ward reports: Tesco has deactivated customers’ internet accounts after their login names and passwords were shared online. The list of more than 2,000 Tesco.com accounts was posted to a popular text-sharing site earlier on Thursday. The supermarket giant said the data had been compiled by hackers using details stolen from other sites. A small…
Update: Does Dentrix need to send individual notification letters rescinding its "encryption" claim?
As regular readers may recall, I had raised some concerns about Henry Schein Dental claiming its Dentrix G5 product provided “encryption” after NIST had declared in 2013 that it wasn’t encryption but only weak data obfuscation. And I was pleased when Dentrix reconsidered their position after my blog post and decided to re-brand G5 as providing…