The Anchorage Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS) just agreed to pay a $150,000 fine after a 2012 breach of approximately 2,500 patients protected Health Information (PHI) due to malware on their healthcare software system according to Healthcare IT News. Apparently ACMHS had adopted the sample Security Rule policies in 2005 but didn’t bother to follow […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While The Sony hack/attack continues to capture the media’s attention with new data releases which create drama – who got caught saying what when – Bloomberg is reporting that something very similar to that happened to the Sands empire in February of this year. Some of you are familiar with Admiral Rogers testimony (head of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Risk Based Security is doing a play by play of the Sony breach. Visit their website for a detailed analysis of what was stolen. I am going to just pick one little part of it, which is scary in and of itself. The fact that they found over a million unredacted socials is a business […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Home Depot reported today that it spent $43 million in it’s third quarter dealing with the fallout of it’s security breach earlier this year. Of the $43 million, $15 million will be paid for out of its $100 million cyber liability policy. From the press release: The retailer warned that it expects “to incur significant […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired reported on an interesting (yes, I know I am strange, to think that malware attacks are interesting, but they are!) malware attack. The malware, known as DarkHotel, pops up a message alerting the user to a software update as soon as they connect to the hotel’s WiFi. Of course, the update is not a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Boy, just when you thought you were doing it right! Ars Technica, Dark Reading, Security Week and others are reporting a new variant of the Citadel malware that has been around for several years. According to the articles, the new variant monitors processes and when it sees Keepass, Password Safe or neXus start up, it […]
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