Archive for December, 2019
Thursday, December 26th, 2019
Ibrahim Balic, a security researcher, recently exposed a flaw in Twitter’s app that allowed to match unique Twitter user accounts with 17 million phone numbers months ago. He was able to accomplish this by uploading large lists of phone numbers by way of Twitter’s “Contacts Upload” feature that is available on the social media giant’s […]
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Saturday, December 14th, 2019
It seems like something that only happens in movies and TV shows: It’s Friday the 13th. You, your colleagues, your entire department, the entire city, in fact, receives the same command to power down their computers immediately and disconnect all devices from the network. But this wasn’t a movie and it wasn’t a TV show… […]
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Tuesday, December 10th, 2019
“Eight is Enough” A great, wholesome, family show from the late 70’s and early 80’s. Also: what Sentara Hospital, with over 300 facilities across the states of North Carolina and Virginia, is telling the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) after being on the receiving end last month of this […]
Posted in HIPAA | Comments Off on Sentara Doubled Down When They Should Have Folded
Monday, December 9th, 2019
There is a reason hackers have started targeting hospitals and medical practices. Not only is their cyber security known to be woefully lacking (despite the best efforts of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [HHS] and HIPAA regulations), but the electric Patient Health Information (ePHI) can literally be life and death. Meaning? The […]
Posted in Blog, Cyber Security | Comments Off on Russian Hackers Hold Nursing Home Patients’ Data Ransom for $14M
Monday, December 9th, 2019
Researchers at Trustwave recently discovered a malicious spam campaign. The email comes as an executable file via email with a tell-tale two sentence subject line that reads “Install Latest Microsoft Windows Update now! Critical Microsoft Windows Update!” There is only one sentence to the actual email itself. Disguised as a .jpg, the file really contains […]
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