The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency, and other international partners, issued an Alert on September 5, 2024, warning...more
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) provides timely updates to the health care sector on cybersecurity threats and mitigation. In the last several weeks, HC3 has issued two alerts worth paying close...more
It is being reported that Black Basta (aptly named) exploited a Microsoft zero-day prior to Microsoft’s release of a patch for the vulnerability back in March....more
On November 17, 2023, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a supplemental mitigation guide for the healthcare and public health sector to the Cyber Risk Summary for those sectors published on...more
On October 31, 2023, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a press release announcing that it has settled with Doctors’ Management Services for $100,000 following a ransomware attack that compromised the protected health...more
11/10/2023
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
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Hackers Steal $4.4M Crypto Using Data Linked to LastPass Breach -
According to Bleeping Computer, crypto fraud researchers at ZachXBT, and MetaMask developer Taylor Monahan have reported that on October 25,...more
11/8/2023
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Biden Administration ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Hackers ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
SolarWinds
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Hackers Steal $4.4M Crypto Using Data Linked to LastPass Breach -
According to Bleeping Computer, crypto fraud researchers at ZachXBT, and MetaMask developer Taylor Monahan have reported that on October 25,...more
11/7/2023
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Cryptocurrency ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Drones ,
Hackers ,
Imports ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
SolarWinds
According to a press release, Personal Touch, a home health company located on Long Island, has reached a settlement with New York Attorney General Letitia James for $350,000 for a data breach that occurred in January of 2021...more
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI, and MS-ISAC recently released an urgent Joint Advisory on the Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability CVE-2023-22515.
According to the Alert, “this critical vulnerability...more
10/23/2023
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Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
FBI ,
Hackers ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Information Technology ,
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Vulnerability Assessments
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CISA Launches Cybersecurity -
Public Awareness Campaign To kick off the twentieth annual Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has announced that CISA and...more
10/16/2023
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Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Popular ,
Vulnerability Assessments
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on October 11, 2023, urging companies (particularly those in the critical...more
10/13/2023
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Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
FBI ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Information Technology ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Risk Management ,
Vulnerability Assessments
Not only is the People’s Republic of China (PRC) a threat with its use of TikTok, but it also supports threat actors that have for years attacked U.S. based companies as well as the governments of the U.S. and Japan....more
Amid growing concern of the use of AI tools, Congressional questioning and hearings, and the lack of regulation around its use, at least seven technology firms have signed on to follow voluntary commitments to oversee how AI...more
On May 16, 2023, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released three advisories applicable to Industrial Control Systems (ICS). The Alerts cover vulnerabilities of Snap One OvrC Cloud, Rockwell...more
5/19/2023
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Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Hackers ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Information Technology ,
Popular ,
Risk Management ,
Threat Management ,
Vulnerability Assessments
While recently speaking at a conference hosted by Vanderbilt University, Jen Easterly, the Director of the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) urged the development of regulations around the use of artificial...more
The FBI, CISA and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) recently released a joint cybersecurity advisory, warning organizations about indicators of compromise, and tactics, techniques, and...more
3/24/2023
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Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
FBI ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Information Technology ,
Joint Statements ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Threat Management ,
Vulnerability Assessments
It used to be that one of the sure ways to identify a phishing email was to notice grammatical errors or broken English in the text of the communication. Thanks to new translation tools like Google Translate, that are...more
2/24/2023
/ Business E-Mail Compromise (BEC) ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Financial Transactions ,
Fraud ,
Google ,
Phishing Scams ,
Popular ,
Spoofing ,
Translations
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World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook for 2023 Is Bleak -
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but remember that I am only the messenger. According to the World Economic Forum’s Global...more
2/9/2023
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Hackers ,
Information Technology ,
Popular ,
Social Engineering ,
Vulnerability Assessments
The more one uses and shares on social media, the more information is publicly available for cyber attackers to use to exploit users’ personal and professional information....more
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but remember that I am only the messenger. According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 23 Insight Report (published in collaboration with Accenture), although...more
2/3/2023
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Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
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World Economic Forum
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Chick-Fil-A Sued for Sharing Data through Meta Pixel -
While plaintiffs’ attorneys were initially focused late last year on suing health care entities for using Pixel and other tracking technology to share...more
1/27/2023
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Chick-Fil-A ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
Data Protection ,
Data-Sharing ,
Fast-Food Industry ,
Popular ,
Scams ,
Statutory Violations ,
T-Mobile ,
Web Tracking
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South Dakota Governor Bans State Workers from Using TikTok -
It is estimated that some 80 million Americans and more than one billion people use TikTok. It is well known that TikTok has a direct...more
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Health Care Organizations Warned of Venus Ransomware -
The Health Care Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (IC3) recently released an Analyst’s Note to health care organizations providing information...more
11/23/2022
/ Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Facebook ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Identity Theft ,
Instagram ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Spyware ,
Vulnerability Assessments
The Health Care Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (IC3) recently released an Analyst’s Note to health care organizations providing information on a new variant of ransomware called Venus (also known as GOODGAME)....more
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Joint Advisory Outlines Attacks by Daixin Team -
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services released a Joint Advisory last week warning...more
11/4/2022
/ Biometric Information ,
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Employee Monitoring ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Vulnerability Assessments