As is often the case when the feds do something, there is probably at least one thing that is good in this notice of proposed rulemaking and probably others that are less good. The HIPAA privacy rule is designed to protect the privacy of patient data, but other than stopping providers from selling your health […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]So you have been hacked and the hackers stole your customers’ data. You try to do the right thing and notify them. By email. Because that might be the only address you have for them. But many times that email never makes to your customer. Blocked by the customer’s email service provider or spam filter. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Data from employment firm Automation Personnel Services Leaked Automation Personnel Services, a provider of temporary employment services, found 440 gigabytes of their data leaked on the dark web. The poster says that it includes payroll, accounting and legal documents. The data was leaked because the company refused to pay the ransom. When asked if the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, maybe better is not the right word. Quick catch up for those of you who are not following this. The Russians hacked the software update process for the high end network management software called Orion from Solar Winds. This software is typically used by large enterprises and government agencies. This hack gave them access […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As millions upon millions of IoT and Industrial IoT devices get deployed every month, we seem to have forgotten what we learned the hard way about our computers: if we don’t patch them, the hackers will invade. #1: A set of bugs called Urgent/11 affected a network module that has been around since the 90s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Solar Winds Software Compromised – Potentially 18,000 Enterprises Affected Last week FireEye filed a report with the SEC saying that they had been hacked – by Russia and not China – and that the hackers got away with FireEye’s entire suite of offensive hacking tools. This is not exactly what you would want your adversary […]
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