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February 22, 2019

Zero-Day WinRAR Remote Code Execution Flaw Allows Full PC Takeover

A patch has been released to correct a 19-year old zero-day WinRAR remote code execution vulnerability. The flaw was identified by security researchers at Check ...

February 14, 2019

Pawnee County Memorial Hospital Malware Attack Impacts 7,000 Patients

Pawnee County Memorial Hospital in Pawnee City, Nebraska, is contacting 7,038 clients that some of their protected health information has possibly been accessed by a ...

February 14, 2019

Georgia Eye Associates Email Breach Impacts 24,000 Patients

EyeSouth Partners has revealed that a cyber criminal has obtained access to a staff member’s email account and may have viewed/obtained the electronic protected health ...

February 13, 2019

Proposal to Pay Patients to Share Their Healthcare Data Included in Oregon Health Information Property Act

The Oregon Health Information Property Act proposes that healthcare patients should be permitted to legally authorize their healthcare suppliers to sell their health data and ...

February 7, 2019

$3m HIPAA Settlement Agreed Between Cottage Health and OCR

A HIPAA penalty settlement of $3,000,000 has been agreed between the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCRand the Santa Barbara, ...

February 6, 2019

Roper St. Francis Healthcare Phishing Attack Sees 13 Accounts Compromised

A massive phishing campaign targeting Roper St. Francis Healthcare has seen attackers gain access to the email accounts of 13 staff members. The phishing attack ...

February 1, 2019

6,092 Patients of FABEN Obstetrics and Gynecology Alerted about Ransomware Attack

FABEN Obstetrics and Gynecology has been hit by a ransomware hacking attack on a server that stored patients’ protected health information (PHI). The ransomware was ...

January 25, 2019

Warning About DNS Hijacking Issued by DHS

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has released an emergency warning regarding DNS hijacking campaigns. All government agencies have been told ...

January 23, 2019

Email Account Breach Impacts Valley Hope Association Patients

Valley Hope Association has revealed that a hacker has been able to log onto the email account of a member of staff. The organisation discovered ...

January 23, 2019

0Patch Micropatches Released to Address 3 Zero-Day Windows Flaws

0Patch has released a micropatch to address three zero-day Windows flaws that have yet to be addressed by Microsoft, including a zero-day remote code execution ...

January 20, 2019

Criminal HIPAA Violation Leads to Probation for Physician

Following pleading guilty to a criminal violation of HIPAA Rules, a physician has received 6 months’ probation as an alternative to a jail term and ...

January 18, 2019

Zix to Acquire AppRiver for $275 Million

The cloud cybersecurity company AppRiver is set to be purchased by the email encryption, threat protection, and email archiving solution provider Zix for $275 million. ...

January 12, 2019

Ransomware Attack at Bobby Yee Podiatric Offices Affects 24,000 Patients

The Podiatric Offices of Bobby Yee have been subjected to a ransomware which led to the encryption of files that included the protected health information ...

January 8, 2019

AJMC Study: Following a Data Breach Hospitals’ Advertising Expenditure Rises 64%

In a recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care Sung J. Choi, PhD and M. Eric Johnson, PhD looked into how advertising expenditures ...

December 4, 2018

Webinar: Cost-Effective DNS-Based Web Filtering

In order to protect against web-based threats such as malware, ransomware, viruses, exploit kits, malvertising, and phishing, businesses need to implement a web filtering solution. ...

November 9, 2018

Q3 2018 Healthcare Data Breach Report Published

A Q3 2018 healthcare data breach report from Protenus shows there has been a significant reduction in healthcare data breaches compared to the previous quarter. ...

November 9, 2018

Eutelsat Chooses TitanHQ to Secure its WiFi Networks

The leading European satellite operator Eutelsat has implemented a new Wi-Fi filtering solution to secure its Wi-Fi networks. Eutelsat is one of the world’s largest ...

November 2, 2018

BleedingBit Vulnerabilities Affect Millions of Wireless Access Points

Armis Labs has identified two vulnerabilities in Texas Instruments’ Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips that are used in wireless access points manufactured by Cisco, Meraki, ...

October 26, 2018

75% of Employees Lack Security Awareness

MediaPro has published its 2018 State of Privacy and Security Awareness Report which assesses the level of security awareness of employees across different industry sectors. ...

October 4, 2018

Persistent New LoJax Rootkit Survives Hard Disk Replacement

Security researchers at ESET have identified a new rootkit that takes persistence to a whole new level. Once infected, the LoJax rootkit will remain active ...

August 20, 2018

38,000 Patient Health Records Exposed in Legacy Health Phishing Attack

A phishing attack on the Portland, Oregon-based healthcare provider, Legacy Health, has resulted in the exposure and possible theft of 38,000 patients’ protected health information. ...

August 19, 2018

SharePoint Files Used to Harvest Office 365 Credentials

A phishing campaign termed PhishPoint uses SharePoint files to steal users’ Office 365 credentials. Huge numbers of phishing emails are being sent to businesses that ...

August 17, 2018

Major Phishing Attack Reported by Augusta University Health

Augusta University Health has experienced a phishing attack that has resulted in the unauthorized accessing of several employees’ email accounts. The substitute breach notice uploaded ...

July 31, 2018

UnityPoint Health Phishing Attack Exposed PHI of 1.4 Million Patients

Another UnityPoint Health phishing attack has been discovered, and this time it is huge. Hackers have gained access to multiple email accounts which contained the ...

July 23, 2018

1.5 Million Health Records Breached in Singapore

Hackers have successfully gained access to a health database of the Singapore government (SingHealth), allowing them to view the health records of 1.5 million individuals, ...

July 23, 2018

AWS EC2 Pricing Options Explained

Confused about AWS EC2 instance types and AWS EC2 pricing options? In this post we explain some of the ways that it is possible to ...

June 13, 2018

Sophos Adds Deep Learning to Email Security Offering

Sophos has announced a major update to its email security offering to help customers detect and block sophisticated new email threats. Sophos Email Security Advanced ...

June 8, 2018

Emergency Update Issued by Adobe to Patch Critical 0-Day Flaw in Flash Player

Adobe has released an emergency update that addresses an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Flash Player that is being used in targeted attacks on Windows ...

May 28, 2018

Hackers Potentially Had Access to 42,000 Patients Health Data for a Month After Phishing Attack

The Ohio Healthcare Provider Aultman Health Foundation has discovered some of its employees have been duped by a phishing attack that resulted in the threat ...

May 18, 2018

PhishLabs Merges with BrandProtect

PhishLabs, a leading provider of phishing threat intelligence and security awareness and anti-phishing training has announced it has merged with BrandProtect, a leading provider of ...

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