Five Canadian hospitals have confirmed that patient and employee data that was stolen in a ransomware attack has been leaked online. The data breach impacts Bluewater Health, Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Erie Shores HealthCare, Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare, and Windsor Regional Hospital, along with service provider TransForm Shared Service Organization. A shared drive was compromised as part […]
An advanced strain of malware masquerading as a cryptocurrency miner has managed to fly the radar for over five years, infecting no less than one million devices around the world in the process. That’s according to findings from Kaspersky, which has codenamed the threat StripedFly, describing it as an “intricate modular framework that supports both […]
Five Guys disclosed a security breach where hackers gained access to the email accounts of two employees, according to consumer disclosure letters filed Friday with the attorneys general of California and Maine. The breaches, discovered on June 7, were the result of business email compromise, Sam Chamberlain, COO of Five Guys, said in the filing […]
A former US Navy IT manager was sentenced to five years and five months in prison for hacking into a database, stealing personally identifiable information (PII), and selling it on the dark web. The man, Marquis Hooper, 32, of Selma, California, who was a chief petty officer, opened under false pretenses an account at a […]
The domestic intelligence chiefs of the Five Eyes alliance warned businesses on Tuesday that they were seeing a “sharp rise” in attempts by hostile states to steal intellectual property. Speaking on the same stage for the first time, at an event hosted by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the agency heads presented five principles […]
Nearly five years after standards were established for how federal agencies should incorporate privacy concerns into their risk management strategies, many have still failed to do so, illustrating the major hurdles the U.S. government faces in safely collecting and storing a wide range of personal data that relates to everything from peoples’ health care information […]
Cyber attacks are on the rise. Cyber Security Hub research has found that two in five cyber security professionals said the rate and volume of cyber attacks experienced by their organization increased in the past year. With this increase in cyber attacks, it is no longer enough for cyber security teams to employ only reactive […]
German business software maker SAP on Tuesday announced the release of 13 new and five updated security notes as part of its September 2023 Security Patch Day. Five of the SAP security notes released this month are rated ‘hot news’, the company’s highest rating. Three of them, however, are updates for previously released security notes. […]
Microsoft addressed five critical security vulnerabilities in its September Patch Tuesday update, along with two “important”-rated zero-days under active attack in the wild. In total, Microsoft released 59 new patches addressing bugs across the product gamut: They affect Microsoft Windows, Exchange Server, Office, .NET and Visual Studio, Azure, Microsoft Dynamics, and Windows Defender. The update […]
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