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Security News for the Week Ending December 31, 2021

W. Va. Hospital Breach Timeline – Way Too Long The Monongalia Health System was attacked recently and hackers had access to several email accounts, apparently belonging to contractors from May 10 to August 15 or about three months. It took them another 60 days to investigate. They are just not telling us about the breach […]

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Why the Internet Does Not Replace Common Sense

Some people say that common sense isn’t so common anymore. Sometimes the Internet doesn’t seem to have much common sense, so those people might be right. Hopefully most adults can distinguish between smart things to do and not so smart things to do, but not always. Right after Apple and Google split over Google maps […]

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Senator to Introduce ‘Comprehensive’ Crypto Legislation

Senator Lummis from Wyoming plans to introduce legislation in early 2022 to attempt to rein in some of the wild west of the cryptocurrency world. Stay tuned. Rumor is that it will add investor protections, rein in stablecoins and create a self-regulatory body under the SEC and the CFTC. That might be a tall order […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 24, 2021

Russian Hackers Make Millions by Stealing SEC Earning Reports A Russian hacker working for a cybersecurity company has been extradited to the U.S. for hacking into the computer networks of two SEC filing agents used by multiple companies to file their quarterly and annual SEC reports. Using that insider information, the hacker traded stock in […]

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Orange and Thales Partner for IoT Security

Probably most people have not heard of either company. Orange is like the Verizon of Europe, the largest telecom company there and Thales is very large multinational security products company that sells in both the commercial and military space. The number of cyber attacks against Internet of Things devices is skyrocketing Orange’s research team says […]

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