Maryland’s Attorney General’s list for 2015 contains over 500 breach reports, many of which were never covered by the media. Here are two involving health or medical entities or health data, followed by some from the education sector that you may not have known about: Dharani Jasthi DMD PC dba Today’s Dental Associates reported that they: received an…
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Hackers hold German hospital data hostage
DW reports that the ransomware problem we’ve seen here and in Australia has also hit German hospitals: It probably came down to a swift response that averted major damage in the Lukas Hospital in Germany’s western city of Neuss. One morning, hospital staff noticed the system wasn’t running smoothly anymore. There were error messages popping…
Horry County Schools approves paying computer virus ransom
WBTW reports that a South Carolina school district is paying a ransom demand because they have no way to access 25 servers with elementary school data after their system was locked up by ransomware: The Horry County school system remains locked out of several servers after a ransom computer virus got into the system last week. Charles…
Smut-viewing Android apps actually steal your data
John Leyden reports: A brace of supposed porn apps for Android actually push ransomware or steal personal data from mobile device, cloud security firm Zscaler warns. One strain of Android malware scares the user with a warning screen that falsely accusing them of watching images of child abuse. After installing the app on a device,…
Bitdefender releases automated decryption tool for files locked up by Linux.Encoder.1
Steve Ragan reports that Bitdefender has figured out how to decrypt files and backups encrypted by Linux.Encoder.1, the latest ransomware causing havoc for sites. …. Exploiting this fundamental weakness, Bitdefender released a tool that will automatically decrypt any files on a victim’s system that were targeted. The tool and instructions are available on Bitdefender’s post, the…
Indiana judge: Judge: Hackers accessed Clarksville social security numbers, other data (Update1)
WHAS-TV reports: Clarksville Town Court Judge James Guilfoyle told WHAS-TV Tuesday that computer hackers accessed records filled with names, birth dates, addresses and social security numbers. Investigators are still trying to figure out the scope of the data breach. Read more on WHAS. Update1: The updated information reads like a ransomware situation, but no ransom…