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Security News for the Week Ending November 12, 2021

Feds Having Some Success In Going After Hackers The DoJ announced the arrest of a Ukrainian who is accused of deploying ransomware on behalf of the REvil ransomware gang. They also seized $6 million in cryptocurrency. The Ukrainian was arrested in Poland (crooks are not smart. If you are in the crosshairs of U.S. law […]

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Security News for the Week Ending October 22, 2021

State Acknowledges Data Breach After 10 Months I guess better late than never. Finally, the State of Illinois is admitting to a data breach, sort of. Here is what they are now saying. Check the dates below. Notice who was among the last to know – the victims. Can the state be fined for breaking […]

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Security News for the Week Ending August 20, 2021

Well That Seems Like a Bit Over the Top A pharmacist in Illinois faces up to 120 years in prison for selling dozens of (I assume blank) Covid vaccine cards. The pharmacist sold 134 cards to 11 buyers for roughly $1276. He is being charged with theft of government property. That seems like a stretch, […]

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Security News for the Week Ending August 13, 2021

Android Trojan Hits 140 Countries, 10,000 Victims Via Social Media Hijack Security company Zimperium says they have found a new trojan they call Flytrap that has been around since March and compromises users’ phones who side load apps from third party app stores. Once the malicious app is on the user’s phone, it uses that […]

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GAO Says Insurers Limit Coverage in High Risk Areas

When insurance companies first started writing cyber risk insurance, it was unbelievably profitable. They were writing many policies and not processing many claims, so they were very happy. Over the last few years customers discovered that it did not make any sense to buy insurance and not make a claim when a bad event happened. […]

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Could America’s Healthcare Suffer Similar Fate to Ireland’s

About ten days ago Ireland’s healthcare system was forced to shut down its computers due to a ransomware attack. Ireland’s health minister said the attack was having a severe impact on the health and social services. In today’s healthcare world, having doctors and hospitals run without computers means no patient charts and a very labor […]

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