34K Patient Records Hacked
Posted December 14, 2016 in Data Breach, Digital Forensics, Malware
Quest Diagnostics, a forensic clinical lab company, announced earlier this week that they had suffered a cyberattack...
Obama Orders Review of Election Hacking
Posted December 9, 2016 in Data Breach, Digital Forensics, Compliance
One of the big stories of the recent presidential election was the release of documents from cyberattacks that were...
Mirai is Taking Down the Internet
Posted December 9, 2016 in Malware, AI, Data Breach
Do you remember a few months ago when a bunch of major websites went down to a DDoS attack? It was done with a...
Locky Ransomware Switches from Norse to Egyptian
Posted December 8, 2016 in Ransomware, Malware, Data Breach
Locky, a popular strain of ransomware, has used the names of Norse gods like Odin and Thor as their file extensions...
Meet the Young Hackers Who Attacked Trump and the BBC
Posted December 8, 2016 in Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Malware, Data Breach
Have you heard of the New World Hackers? They group claims to have dozens of members from all over, but it's...
South Korea's Military Hacked by North Korea
Posted December 6, 2016 in Data Breach, Malware, Compliance
South Korea's Military Cyber Command, a group set up to protect South Korea against hacking, has been hacked,...
Ransomware Shuts Down Hospitals
Posted December 6, 2016 in Ransomware, Data Breach, Malware
A ransomware attack caused three hospitals to cancel operations, impacting almost 3,000 patients from October 30...
DDoS Smokescreens
Posted December 5, 2016 in Malware, Data Breach, Compliance
The general consensus up to this point has been that when hackers commit a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)...