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Security News for the Week Ending June 14, 2019

SandboxEscaper Releases Yet Another Windows Zero-Day SandboxEscaper has it in for Microsoft.  He or she has released over a half dozen zero-days including four of them just a couple of weeks ago.  He or she has put Microsoft behind the power curve multiple times and now he or she is doing it again. This time […]

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What If Local Hospitals Were Hit With Ransomware?

Remember the Wannacry attack that basically took down the UK healthcare system and which CBS says will cost about $4 billion to mitigate? Well, a few medical experts with a bent towards hacking presented the results of a simulation they conducted regarding what would happen if local hospitals were hit by a coordinated malware attack. […]

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Security News Bytes for the Week Ending June 7, 2019

More Information on the Baltimore Cyberattack Baltimore estimates that it will wind up spending $18 million to recover from the cyberattack – which is why many organization just pay the ransom.  The attackers only wanted $103,000 or less than 1 percent of what they are going to spend.  Of course, if an organization does that, […]

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Will New York Follow In California’s Footsteps?

The New York Privacy Act was introduced last month.  Like California’s CCPA, it gives consumers more power over their data, but in addition to that, it would require companies to put their customer’s privacy before their own interests.  I am sure that there will be a huge lobbying effort by special interests. While the sponsor is still […]

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Security News for the Week Ending May 31, 2019

Baltimore Ransomware Attack Could Be Blamed on the NSA I think this is what they call a tease. Technically correct, however. You may remember the NSA hacking tool that got out into the wild called EternalBlue?  It was leaked by the hacking group ShadowBrokers in 2017.  Before that, it exploited a Microsoft  bug that the […]

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Self Inflicted Cyber Breaches Still Huge Problem Along with Third Party Risk

And it continues to be a major issue for some reason. This week researchers found 85 gigabytes of security log data (talk about a nightmare for a business to expose that) in an elastic search database. The server was discovered on May 27th and the data goes back to April 19th, so that might be […]

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