The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recently issued a warning alerting consumers that scammers are using malicious QR Codes to reroute unsuspecting customers to malicious sites to try to steal their data....more
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New Mexico County Recovering from Ransomware Attack -
Another day, another governmental entity hit with a ransomware attack. If you are a resident of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, and you need a marriage...more
1/14/2022
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FTC Warns Companies of Enforcement for Failing to Patch Log4j Vulnerability -
In what I would describe as an unusual but interesting move by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), on January 4, 2022, it...more
1/7/2022
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Search Engines ,
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On January 1, 2022, Broward Health, which operates dozens of health care facilities in Broward County, Florida, notified over 1.3 million individuals that a threat actor gained access to and removed data from its system on...more
1/6/2022
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New Jersey Settles with Cancer Center Over Business Email Compromise -
One of the challenging things about HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) enforcement is the fact that both the...more
12/27/2021
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Update on Apache log4j and Kronos Security Incidents -
It was a crazy weekend for cyber-attacks. People seem surprised, but those of us in the industry aren’t surprised one bit. It is very logical and...more
12/17/2021
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It was a crazy weekend for cyberattacks. People seem surprised, but those of us in the industry aren’t surprised one bit. It is very logical and foreseeable that hackers are leveraging attacks that have maximum disruption on...more
12/17/2021
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FBI Warning: M&A Activity Targeted by Ransomware Groups -
The FBI issued a Private Industry Notification on November 2, 2021, warning companies that “ransomware actors are very likely using significant...more
11/5/2021
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Driverless Cars ,
Facebook ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
FBI ,
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QR Codes ,
Ransomware ,
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Cyber Criminals Focusing on Clinics + Business Associates -
As hospital systems become more hardened to cyber-attacks, cyber criminals are focusing their efforts on smaller providers, such as outpatient...more
10/8/2021
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Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Drones ,
Facebook ,
Farms ,
Google ,
Hackers ,
Instagram ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Social Media ,
Vulnerability Assessments
Trucking company Forward Air revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it suffered a ransomware attack in December 2020 (reportedly by Hades), which caused business disruption as it was forced to...more
We talk about passwords a lot. As you know, I am a fan of passphrases instead of passwords as they are hard to guess and easy to remember—a perfect combination for security data....more
Queen Creek Medical Center (QCMC), also known as Desert Wells Family Medicine, located in Arizona, has notified up to 35,000 patients of a data breach following a ransomware attack that corrupted its medical records system,...more
9/17/2021
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Information Technology ,
PHI ,
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Emerging Ransomware Groups Getting into the Action -
According to a report issued on August 24, 2021, by Unit 42 of Palo Alto Networks Ransomware Groups to Watch: Emerging Threats, four emerging ransomware...more
8/27/2021
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TCPA
There has been a flurry of reporting in the past few days on the T-Mobile customer data compromise, with allegations that the compromise affected up to 100 million customers. ...more
8/19/2021
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T-Mobile ,
Telecommunications
To establish credibility for their new criminal marketplace, cyber criminals have posted details on over 1,000,000 credit cards, stolen between 2018 and 2019, including card number, CVV number, name and address on the dark...more
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CISA Issues Alert on Top Exploited Vulnerabilities -
On July 28, 2021, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a cybersecurity alert entitled “Top Routinely Exploited...more
7/30/2021
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The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) recently announced that it discovered on July 16, 2021 that its online unemployment benefit system, CONNECT was compromised, potentially affecting personal information of...more
Mint Mobile notified a “small number” of customers last weekend that their personal information was compromised between June 8 and June 10, when a threat actor ported the phone numbers of those customers to another carrier...more
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Microsoft Issues Emergency Software Update for PrintNightmare Zero Day Vulnerability -
Following the release of a U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (US-CERT) Coordination Center...more
7/9/2021
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British Airways ,
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Microsoft ,
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Personal Data ,
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Maximus, a contractor of the State of Ohio’s Medicaid program reported this week that it experienced a data breach that exposed Medicaid health providers’ names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, and other...more
I know I sound like a vinyl record that has a scratch in it, but I write it as I see it. And right now, I am seeing that the companies hit with cyber-attacks, ransomware attacks, double extortion attacks, and data theft are...more
6/17/2021
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Incident Response Plans ,
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U.S. CISA + Cyber Command Warns of Critical Flaw in VMware -
Although a patch has been available by VMware since May 25, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...more
6/11/2021
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Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Financial Transactions ,
Hackers ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Microsoft ,
Ransomware
It has been reported by Bloomberg Law that the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack was caused by a “single compromised password.” The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack had consumers hoarding gasoline and disrupted...more
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Eversource Energy Notifies Customers of Data Breach -
Eversource Energy, which is the largest energy supplier in New England with 4.3 million customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New...more
4/30/2021
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Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
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iPhone ,
NYDFS ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Ransomware ,
SolarWinds
This week, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued the Report on the SolarWinds Cyber Espionage Attack and Institutions’ Response....more
4/30/2021
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Financial Institutions ,
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Information Sharing ,
NYDFS ,
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Russia ,
SolarWinds