Well That Seems Like a Bit Over the Top A pharmacist in Illinois faces up to 120 years in prison for selling dozens of (I assume blank) Covid vaccine cards. The pharmacist sold 134 cards to 11 buyers for roughly $1276. He is being charged with theft of government property. That seems like a stretch, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Census Bureau admits that they were hit by a cyberattack last year while they were tallying the U.S. population, but not to worry – the servers compromised weren’t being used to conduct the tally. Trust them. According the the Inspector General, the Census Bureau missed multiple opportunities to stop the attack. How would you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Nick Merker, partner at Indianapolis based law firm Ice Miller, spoke at Black Hat on the subject. Nick has been involved in over 500 cyber incidents and has learned a few things in the process. When lawyers become involved in a cyber incident, the consider things like compliance (like HIPAA), insurance, liability, evidence preservation and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In what has to be called a really bad oopsy, the Dallas Police Department, during a data migration effort back in March, lost 22 TB of data. This includes data from at least one murder case. The Dallas DA said that the city of Dallas (as opposed to the DA) discovered the problem on April […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Android Trojan Hits 140 Countries, 10,000 Victims Via Social Media Hijack Security company Zimperium says they have found a new trojan they call Flytrap that has been around since March and compromises users’ phones who side load apps from third party app stores. Once the malicious app is on the user’s phone, it uses that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While many executive orders are a waste of good space in the Federal Register, so far executive branch agencies seem to be taking the Executive Order on Improving Cybersecurity seriously. The most recent result is that the Office of Management and Budget has ordered federal agencies to start documenting software that is identified as critical. […]
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