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IoT Maker Says It Will Recall; China Says it Will Sue Journalists

Maybe a little good will come from the day the Internet died last week.  And maybe, also, a little bad. To very briefly recap, attackers using the now free and open source malware Marai attacked Dyn’s servers.  Dyn provides DNS services to the likes of Twitter, Amazon and hundreds of other companies.  The attack against […]

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Challenges of Electronic Health Records

cYou may need a scorecard to keep track of the players, but ponder this. Codman Square Health Center in Boston reported a breach to HHS.  However, it was not THEIR system that was breached. Codman participates in a regional Health Information Exchange, the New England Healthcare Exchange, a mandated mechanism for doctors to exchange information […]

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Why Employee Training is a CRITICAL Component of Security Training

According to Buzzfeed, nine days after Hillary Clinton had won big on Super Tuesday, the Russians launched their cyber attack on her campaign. The Russians sent malicious emails to all of her senior campaign staff.  The emails looked like standard Google GMail emails alerting to suspicious activity on their accounts and asked them to click […]

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Hackers Use Virtual Skimmers To Steal Credit Cards From Web Sites

You’ve probably heard about credit card skimmers that hackers attach to everything from gas pumps to ATMs to self checkout terminals at grocery stores, all in an effort to steal your credit card info. As more stores go to chip based credit cards where stealing the information off the stripe won’t let hackers use that […]

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Hackers Attack France’s TV5, Almost Destroying It

All 12 channels France’s TV5 Monde were taken off the air one night in April 2015.  The company had just launched a new channel that day and were out celebrating when a flood of text messages told the director-general that all 12 stations had gone dark. Attackers, claimed to be from the Cyber Caliphate. Since […]

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