USB ports are so convenient… and such a risk. Lowell, Massachusetts-based Jeanne D’Arc Credit Union recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach that occurred when an employee voluntarily left her employ on December 27, 2010 and took some files with her on a USB drive. She reportedly planned to use the forms…
RSA Shuts Down More Than 500,000 Cyber Attacks Across 185 Countries
Herzeliya, Israel and Bedford, MA – Now in its seventh year operating one of the world’s foremost commercial online anti-fraud services, RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), today announced that its RSA FraudAction anti-phishing and anti-Trojan service recently reached a milestone in the fight against cyber crime. The RSA FraudAction service shut down its 500,000th online…
IA: Atlantic YMCA loses $50,000 in cyber attack
The executive director of the Nishna Valley Family Y.M.C.A. in Atlantic says the organization has lost nearly $50,000 in a cyber attack. Y.M.C.A. executive director, Dan Haynes, told reporters this morning during a news conference, that their computer systems were recently infected by a virus that targeted what are called ACH or Automated Clearing…
Finnish travel service hacked; thousands of users’ passwords and e-mail addresses exposed
Another hack in Finland. A message on the home page of travel site Napsu.fi confirms that they were hacked on December 3 and that a list of registered users, usernames, email addresses and plain-text passwords were leaked. The firm is asking all registered users to change their passwords. From what I’ve seen so far, 11,976 usernames…
CMS Issues Final Rule Allowing Entities To Access Claims Data
On Monday, CMS announced a final rule allowing qualified organizations to access its claims database to develop public ratings reports on physicians, hospitals and other health care providers, the AP/Washington Post reports Background According to the AP/Post, the database is considered the “mother lode” of health care data, with information on 47 million beneficiaries and nearly every participating physician and…
GstarCAD hacked and accounts leaked
D35M0ND142 has been fairly busy the past few days, one of the latest victims is GstarCAD, a leading 2d/3d automated cad software technology developer, the website which was hacked and also was offline at time of publish is en.gstarcad.com. The leak contains basic database information and a dump of user accounts with encrypted passwords. https://pastebin.com/tbcyBX1r