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Security News for the Week Ending May 8, 2020

The Contact Tracing Horror Begins The UK is now saying that all of the contact data that they are collecting from the app people install on their smart phones – that data may be kept by the government forever and no, you can’t ask them to delete it. Credit: The Register Singapore will require smartphone […]

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Covid-19 Does NOT Mean No Ransomware

Three separate ransomware stories – all against healthcare organizations, even though SOME hackers SAID they weren’t going to hack healthcare. Of course, what makes you think you can trust folks who break the law for a living. #1 – Largest Private Hospital Company in Europe Hit By Ransomware Fresenius, is Europe’s largest hospital operator and […]

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Third-Party Risk in the Time of Covid-19

Here is an interesting chart from Gartner: What are legal and compliance folks worried about in the era of Covid-19? Increased cyber risk. “Remote working has been hastily adopted by suppliers to keep their business running, so it’s unlikely every organization or employee is following best practices,” said Vidhya Balasubramanian, managing vice president in the […]

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Security Risks of Firmware

As software makers start to take security more seriously, hackers are becoming more creative. When Apple and Microsoft started doing a better job of finding and patching bugs in their operating systems more quickly, hackers started looking at other applications installed on users’ computers. As the makers of the other software installed on computers started […]

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Security News for the Week Ending May 1, 2020

China, Korea, Vietnam Escalate Hacking During Covid-19 Outbreak The Trump administration is calling out China for hacking our hospitals and research facilities who are looking for cures and vaccines for Covid-19. That should not be much of a surprise since China has always opted for stealing solutions vs. figuring them out themselves. At least that […]

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