The feds have upped the game and are going after companies that get breached that do not have effective cybersecurity programs. In this case, practice management software vendor Professional Business Systems, Inc. The company, who does business under the name Practicefirst Medical Management Solutions failed to install a firewall patch in January 2019. That failure […]
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]Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA), a well known defense contractor in DC, was hit by a ransomware attack. The tagline on the homepage of their website says that they are enabling a more secure future. A Google search last week for the company brought up these results: The researcher who discovered the problem said it seems […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FBI and DHS Raid State Driver’s License Database Photos The FBI and DHS/ICE have been obtaining millions of photos from state DMV driver’s license databases. The FBI and DHS have do not feel that they have ask permission to do this. The FBI conducts 4,000 facial recognition searches a month. While the searches might be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AgentRun is a startup that helps independent insurance agents and brokers manage customer relationships (CRM) and they are the latest company to do the perp walk for leaving an Amazon storage bucket unprotected. Compromised were thousands of client’s sensitive data files like insurance policy documents, health data, medical data, social security and medicare cards, blank […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is interesting to see what data companies collect on us. Unfortunately, that usually happens when the company suffers a breach. WWE joined the crowd of businesses that can’t quite remember to protect data that they make publicly accessible on the Internet. One more time, the data was stored at Amazon. In this case it […]
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