A hacker called thedarkoverlord is offering 3 unique medical databases for sale at prices ranging from 151 bitcoins to 607 bitcoins. Deep Dot Web got to look at images of the database, shown below. One database has 48,000 records from a healthcare company in Missouri. The second database has 210,000 records from a healthcare care […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Infosec Institute says that malicious cyber activity cost the US between $24 billion and $120 billion and worldwide that number was $300 billion to $1 trillion (see here). And that was in 2013! For investment professionals (and other businesses as well), poor cyber security practices which lead to being hacked can cause a complete […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr of the District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia says that the FBI can hack your computer without a warrant. Judge Morgan said that the defendant “has no reasonable expectation of privacy in his computer”, in part because the FBI only collected limited information. The defendant is involved in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs reported last week that they had found a dark web marketplace selling access to servers – possibly yours and mine – for as little as $6 and as much as $6,000. The key benefit of these servers is that since they are not actually the hacker’s servers, if they are able […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Carbonite: Carbonite sent out an email to all customers to reset their passwords. They claim that they have not been hacked but that they are seeing a large number of attempts to log in by third parties. They say that based on their security review, they have no evidence that they have been hacked. If […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written several times about the fight between Cottage Health System and Columbia Casualty, a division of CNA Insurance. In 2013 Cottage’s systems were breached and the private information of thousands of patients was publicly disclosed. Their insurance company paid $4.125 million for costs related to the breach, including a class action lawsuit. That […]
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