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March 30, 2021

Critical Flaws Identified in Facebook for WordPress Plugin

A critical flaw with a CVSS score of 9.0 has been identified in the official Facebook for WordPress plugin, which is used on more than ...

March 29, 2021

New Jersey Plastic Surgery Practice Pays $30K to OCR Settle HIPAA Right of Access Case

The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has revealed a settlement has been agreed with Ridgewood, NJ-based Village Plastic Surgery to resolve a potential breach ...

March 25, 2021

United States Data Protection and Privacy Laws

Although not the first state law to address data protection and consumer privacy, the passage of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) made the headlines ...

March 19, 2021

Internet Crime Complaints Increased by 69% in 2020 with $4.2 Billion in Losses to Cybercrime

During the pandemic, cybercriminals stepped up their attacks on businesses and individuals and record numbers of complaints about cybercrime were filed with the Federal Bureau ...

March 4, 2021

AllyAlign Health Ransomware Attack Impacts Tens of Thousands of Patients

Following an attempted ransomware attack that took place November 13, 2020, AllyAlign Health breach alerts have been sent to make members and providers aware of ...

February 25, 2021

Cisco Patches Critical Flaws in its Application Services Engine and ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator

Cisco has released a patch to address a critical flaw in the API endpoint of the Cisco ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO) installed on the Application ...

February 24, 2021

U.S. Healthcare Data Breach Report for January 2021

January witnessed a 48% month-over-month drop in the number of large healthcare data breaches, down from 62 breach incidents in December to 32 in January, ...

February 22, 2021

Harvard Eye Associates Pays Ransom to Recover Healthcare Data Stolen in Hacking Incident

In California, Laguna Hills-based Harvard Eye Associates has been affected by a cyberattack on its online storage vendor and the protected health information (PHI) of ...

February 18, 2021

US Healthcare Data Breach Report Shows Breaches Increased by 55% In 2020

An analysis of 2020 healthcare data breaches has been conducted by Bitglass that shows the extent to which the healthcare industry was targeted by hackers. ...

February 10, 2021

Microsoft Fixes 56 Flaws on February 2021 Patch Tuesday Including 1 Zero Day

Compared to previous months, February 2021 Patch Tuesday saw relatively few patches released by Microsoft to correct flaws across its range of products, although several ...

February 5, 2021

U.S. Companies Slow to Terminate Access to Systems When Employees Leave the Company

When an employee is terminated or leaves a company for other reasons, access to systems should be immediately revoked, but in the U.S., many companies ...

January 27, 2021

Blackbaud Ransomware Attack Leads to Rady Children’s Hospital Class Action Lawsuit

In May 2020, the cloud software group Blackbaud was targeted and attacked with ransomware. As is typical in human managed ransomware attacks, data was stolen ...

January 25, 2021

2020 Saw 560 U.S. Healthcare Facilities Affected by Ransomware

During 2020 – according to the latest State of Ransomware report from the New Zealand-based cybersecurity firm Emsisoft – healthcare, education, and government entities were ...

January 21, 2021

Interpol Warns of Rise in Investment Scams Targeting Dating App Users

With opportunities for meeting potential partners now limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic and many people isolated due to lockdown measures, use of dating apps ...

January 21, 2021

Patients Rerouted to Other Hospitals After Cyberattack on Belgian Hospital

A hospital in Belgium has suffered a cyberattack that has seen approximately between 40 and 80 of its 300 servers encrypted using Windows BitLocker. The ...

January 14, 2021

Healthcare Sector Cyberattacks Have Increased by 45% in the Past 2 Months

A recent joint CISA, FBI, and HHS cybersecurity alert warned that the healthcare sector was being targeted by threat actors who were deploying ransomware. Attacks ...

January 13, 2021

Ransomware Attack Impacts Lake Region Healthcare

On December 22, 2020, Minnesota-based Lake Region Healthcare discovered ransomware had been deployed on its network and the attackers gained access to its databases. The ...

January 6, 2021

Ransomware Attacks on Healthcare Organizations Continue to Rise with Ryuk the Biggest Threat

Cyberattacks on healthcare organizations have continued to increase over the past two months, according to research conducted by cybersecurity firm Check Point, and ransomware is ...

January 4, 2021

Hidden Backdoor Identified in Zyxel Firewalls and AP Controllers

A security researcher has identified a hidden backdoor in Zyxel firewalls and AP controllers, caused by the use of hardcoded administrative credentials for an account ...

January 2, 2021

Wilmington Surgical Associates Ransomware Attack Impacts Over 14,000 Patients

The NetWalker ransomware group has claimed it is behind a ransomware attack that took place on the North Carolina-based surgical center, Wilmington Surgical Associates in ...

December 19, 2020

Three Vulnerabilities Identified in Medtronic MyCareLink Smart Patient Readers

Three critical vulnerabilities have been found in Medtronic MyCareLink (MCL) Smart Patient Readers, which could be exploited by threat actors to gain access to protected ...

December 3, 2020

Foreign APT Groups Targeting Think Tanks, Warns CISA/FBI

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued a warning about ongoing cyberattacks on think tanks by ...

November 24, 2020

Warning Issued After Discovery of Scores of Spoofed FBI Websites

Scores of domains have been identified which spoof official Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) websites, prompting the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center to issue a ...

November 22, 2020

University of Cincinnati Medical Center HIPAA Right of Access Failure Results in $65,000 Fine

The 18th HIPAA financial penalty of 2020, the 12th fine under its HIPAA Right of Access enforcement initiative, has been revealed by HHS’ Office for ...

November 17, 2020

U.S. Data Breach Impacts 829,454 Luxottica Patients

The largest eyewear firm globally, Luxottica, has had a number of its web portals targeted in a cyberattack that has resulted in a breach of ...

November 16, 2020

Time to Switch from SMS and Phone-Based MFA to More Secure Authentication Methods

Multi-factor authentication is an important security measure to prevent compromised credentials from being used to gain access to accounts and sensitive data, but not all ...

November 10, 2020

Microsoft Fixes 112 Vulnerabilities Including 17 Critical Flaws

November 2020 Patch Tuesday has seen Microsoft correct 112 vulnerabilities across its range of products, including 17 critical flaws. 93 of the vulnerabilities are rated ...

November 10, 2020

Saint Francis Healthcare Data Breach Lawsuit Settled for $350,000

In relation to September 2019 ransomware attack on Ferguson Medical Group (FMG), a $350,000 settlement has been reached between Saint Francis Healthcare System and patients ...

November 8, 2020

10th HIPAA Fine Under Right of Access Initiative Revealed by Office for Civil Rights

The 10th financial penalty under its HIPAA Right of Access enforcement initiative has been revealed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office ...

November 4, 2020

Adobe Update Corrects 14 Vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader Including 4 Critical Flaws

Adobe has released an out-of-band update to correct several vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, just a week before November Patch Tuesday when updates ...

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