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Patch Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerabilities Being Exploited in the Wild ASAP -
Adobe has issued alerts on three vulnerabilities affecting its ColdFusion product. The first alert, issued on July 11, 2023,...more
7/24/2023
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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
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California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) ,
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Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Employee Monitoring ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
Popular ,
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Second Security Directive Issued by TSA to Pipeline Operators -
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued its second Security Directive to the pipeline industry on July 20, 2021,...more
7/23/2021
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FBI ,
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Infrastructure ,
Location Data ,
NASA ,
Olympics ,
Pipelines ,
Ransomware ,
TSA
CYBERSECURITY -
Tulsa, OK Refuses to Pay Ransom to Attackers -
The City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, announced on May 9, 2021, that it had been hit with a ransomware attack, but the Mayor is resolute in not paying the demanded...more
Colonial Pipeline paid hackers a ransom of $4.4 million in bitcoin soon after discovering a cybersecurity hack on its systems that began on May 6. The company’s acknowledgement comes after days of speculation about whether a...more
Colonial Pipeline, a company that transports more than 100 million gallons of gasoline and other fuel daily across 14 states from Houston to New York Harbor, shut down the pipeline last Friday after discovering ransomware on...more
5/14/2021
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Cybersecurity ,
Hackers ,
National Security ,
Oil & Gas ,
Pipelines ,
Ransomware ,
Supply Chain ,
Threat Management
Cyber-attacks and Cybersecurity Failure Are Top Risks of the Next Decade Says World Economic Forum -
Although somewhat obvious, the World Economic Forum, in partnership with Marsh McLennan, SK Group and Zurich Insurance...more
2/16/2021
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Cryptocurrency ,
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Cyber Insurance ,
Cybersecurity ,
Cybertheft ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
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Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Social Media
A Tampa, Florida area water facility was recently hacked using a popular remote-access software tool. The unidentified hacker also used the software to connect to an on-site computer and then used that computer to access the...more
The Federal Bureau of Investigations Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recently issued a public service announcement warning private companies about the increasing numbers of ransomware attacks affecting private industry....more
10/14/2019
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Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
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Health Care Providers ,
OCR ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
PHI ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
SCOTUS ,
Title III ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems ,
UPS ,
Vulnerability Assessments ,
Websites ,
WhatsApp
Inogen, which manufactures portable oxygen devices, has alerted the Securities and Exchange Commission in a recent filing that it is notifying 30,000 individuals that their personal information was compromised when a hacker...more
4/20/2018
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Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
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EPIC ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
Hackers ,
Medical Devices ,
Personal Data ,
Ransomware ,
Risk Management
Russians Continue to Attack U.S. Energy and Power Sectors -
Late last week, a joint statement by the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that the Russian government has been...more
3/23/2018
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Exports ,
Facebook ,
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Online Travel Vendors ,
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Trump Administration ,
Uber ,
UK Data Protection Act ,
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Health Care Organizations Saw an 89% Increase in Ransomware in 2017 -
Our experience last year is consistent with the conclusion of a new report issued by Cryptonite in its 2017 Health Care Cyber Research Report—that the...more
1/16/2018
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Health Care Providers ,
HIPAA Audits ,
Initial Coin Offering (ICOs) ,
Malware ,
Mobile Devices ,
OCR ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Ransomware ,
Transportation Industry
We previously warned readers about the Locky ransomware, which is potent and designed to use phishing emails to lure users to click on links and attachments, including pdfs.
Now, researchers at Cylance have discovered...more
11/20/2017
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Big Data ,
Colleges ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Drones ,
Educational Institutions ,
Email ,
Hackers ,
Information Technology ,
Malware ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Ransomware ,
Universities ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Two Massachusetts accounting firms separately recently notified the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General and the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation of data breach incidents at their firms, resulting in...more
Yahoo’s troubles for failing to timely disclose security breaches provides rare insight into quantifying the financial and other costs to a company’s shareholders and leadership when a security breach occurs and is...more
3/13/2017
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Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Email ,
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Information Technology ,
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Telecommunications ,
Verizon ,
Yahoo!
The Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (OCABR) has published an online list of data breach notifications issued each year to Massachusetts residents since 2007, the inception of the...more
In 2016, new privacy, cybersecurity and/or data security legislation passed or became effective in a number of countries, some adopting data security measures for the first time. Several countries adopted cybersecurity...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) recently settled its first cybersecurity-related enforcement action against a Missouri based registered investment adviser, R.T. Jones Capital Equities Management, Inc. (the ...more
10/2/2015
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Compliance ,
Confidential Information ,
Credit Monitoring ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Equity Plans ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
Gramm-Leach-Blilely Act ,
Investment Adviser ,
Investment Companies ,
Investment Firms ,
Investment Portfolios ,
OCIE ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
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Safeguards Rule ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
This month, the Ponemon Institute released its Fifth Annual Benchmark Study on Privacy & Security of Healthcare Data and its findings are generating a good deal of attention. In the past, the Study has found that most data...more
College and universities, like many other businesses and organizations, defend against millions of cyberattacks each day. Most recently, Penn State’s College of Engineering discovered a multi-year long cyberattack seeking...more