Cryptocurrency is an interesting beast. Unregulated by governments. Not backed by reserves or governments. Difficult to track IF DONE RIGHT. Completely transparent if not done right. For all of these reasons, it is the target of attackers of all stripes. The first attack this week was in England. Armed robbers broke into the home of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ransomware and hospitals. Not a great combination. The Register is reporting that Hancock Hospital paid ransom attackers $60,000 to get control of their system back. Hancock Health in Indiana was hit with a ransomware attack last week. As the hospital detected “something wrong”, they decided to shut down all hospital systems, all wellness center systems, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]21st Century Oncology, who bills itself as the world’s largest operator of cancer treatment centers with 179 locations, suffered a breach in 2015, losing control of 2+ million patient records. According to law firm Motley Rice, they found out about the breach when the FBI notified them – not a great way to start your […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Russian hacker has confessed in court to hacking the DNC during last year’s election. The Russian web site that is reporting this has not been friendly to Putin, so there are lots of dimensions to this conversation. The web site says that Konstantin Kozlovsky stated that he was doing this on the direction of Russian […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While people are purchasing Internet of Things devices at record numbers, most people are not looking at the security implications of them. Given that, here is something to ponder. Apple, like every other company on the planet, is trying to capitalize on the IoT craze. They sell software that allows developers to build software to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written about the troubles of Cottage Health System in California. They were breached and the protected Health Information of at least 32,000 patients was compromised. The situation was that they had outsourced the storage of patient records to InSync, which by itself is not a problem, but InSync made this data available on […]
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