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October 13, 2020

Microsoft Patches 11 Critical and 75 Important Flaws on October 2020 Patch Tuesday

October 2020 Patch Tuesday has seen Microsoft issue patches to correct 87 flaws across its product range, including 11 Critical flaws and 75 Important vulnerabilities. ...

October 13, 2020

What is the Legal Recommended Email Archiving Retention Period?

Legal recommended email archiving retention periods differ considerably depending on the nature of a business’s operations and the regulations it is required to comply with. ...

October 2, 2020

Emotet Campaign Impersonates Democratic National Convention

An Emotet malware campaign is underway which has already targeted hundreds of organizations in the United States. The emails spoof the Democratic National Convention with ...

September 29, 2020

Universal Health Services Ransomware Attack Cripples Hospitals Across the United States

Universal Health Services (UHS) has suffered a ransomware attack that has taken IT systems out of action across its nationwide network of hospitals. UHS is ...

September 21, 2020

7,777 Patients Impacted by Starling Physicians Email Breach

Starling Physicians has begun contacting 7,777 patients to make them aware that a portion of their protected health information may have been accessed by an ...

September 18, 2020

Ransomware Attack on Hospital Leads to the Death of a Patient

A ransomware attack on a German hospital that took critical systems out of action and forced the cancellation of appointments and the temporary closure of ...

September 16, 2020

Five OCR HIPAA Fines for HIPAA Right of Access Failures

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has recently agreed to settle five HIPAA compliance cases that were investigated after ...

September 9, 2020

Adobe Patches 12 Critical Flaws in Experience Manager, InDesign, and Framemaker

Adobe has released patches to correct 18 flaws on September 2020 Patch Tuesday. The flaws exist in Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Framemaker. ...

September 7, 2020

Microsoft Will End Support for Adobe Flash Player on January 1, 2020

Microsoft has announced that web browser support for Adobe Flash Player will end on January 1, 2021. Adobe Flash Player will no longer be distributed ...

August 18, 2020

Northern Light Health Foundation Alerts 657,392 Donors About Blackbaud Ransomware Attack

The Brewer, ME-based integrated healthcare group, Northern Light Health Foundation, has revealed it has been impacted by the recent ransomware attack on Blackbaud Inc. The ...

August 18, 2020

Google to Add MitM Protection Mechanism to Chrome 86 Warning Users About Insecure Forms

Google has announced that the Google Chrome browser will soon alert individuals about insecure forms on websites. Google is planning on rolling out the new ...

August 11, 2020

Microsoft Fixes 120 Vulnerabilities on August 2020 Patch Tuesday, Including 17 Critical Flaws

August 2020 Patch Tuesday has seen Microsoft release 120 patches covering 13 products and a Servicing Stack Update for Windows 10 advisory. 17 of the ...

August 11, 2020

Adobe Fixes 26 Vulnerabilities Including 11 Critical Flaws

Adobe has released patches to address 26 vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, including 11 flaws that have been rated critical. The critical flaws ...

August 10, 2020

Phishing Attack Hits Children’s Hospital in Colorado

Children’s Hospital Colorado is contacting 2,553 patients to inform them that some of their protected health information was held in an email account that was ...

August 5, 2020

Online Shopping Scams Have Soared During the COVID-19 Pandemic

There has been a major increase in online shopping scams during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent public service announcement by the FBI. Reports ...

July 28, 2020

Rhode Island Health System Hit with $1 Million Fine for Noncompliance with HIPAA Rules

The Rhode Island non-profit health system, Lifespan Health System Affiliated Covered Entity (Lifespan), has been fined $1,040,000 by the Department of Health and Human Services’ ...

July 22, 2020

Out of Band Update Corrects 12 Critical Flaws in Adobe Photoshop, Prelude and Bridge

Adobe has issued an out of band update to correct 12 critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Prelude, and Adobe Bridge, and an information disclosure ...

July 14, 2020

Maximum Severity Flaw in SAP Could Allow Full Takeover of Enterprise System

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an alert about a critical vulnerability in the SAP NetWeaver Application Server ...

July 14, 2020

Healthcare Fiscal Management Ransomware Attack Impacts Up to 58,000 People

The Wilmington, NC-based provider of self-pay conversion and insurance eligibility services to hospitals, clinics and physician groups, Healthcare Fiscal Management Inc. (HFMI), has revealed that ...

July 13, 2020

Zoom Fixes Zero-Day Legacy Windows RCE Flaw

A zero-day vulnerability in the Zoom Windows client that could potentially allow remote code execution has now been patched by Zoom. The flaw only affected ...

July 10, 2020

96% of Companies are Concerned About Public Cloud Security

While most companies have adopted the public cloud and have moved at least some of their workloads or infrastructure to the cloud, confidence in cloud ...

July 3, 2020

Portals Accessed Using Stolen Credentials of Health Plan Members

Independence Blue Cross, AmeriHealth HMO, Inc. and AmeriHealth Insurance Company of New Jersey have discovered hackers obtained access to pages in their member portals between ...

July 3, 2020

Critical Vulnerabilities Identified in Apache Guacamole Remote Access System

Security researchers have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Apache Guacamole remote access system used by thousands of companies to support home workers. Apache Guacamole is ...

July 2, 2020

Microsoft Releases Out of Band Fixes for Two Serious Flaw in the Windows Codecs Library

Microsoft has released an out of band update to correct two serious vulnerabilities in the Windows Codecs library, which, if exploited, could allow remote code ...

June 18, 2020

Guidance Issued on Addressing Privacy and Security Risks for Telehealth Data in the Cloud

The Cloud Security Alliance has published a new resource to help healthcare organizations address the privacy and security risks associated with the processing, storage, and ...

June 17, 2020

Ripple20: Critical Vulnerabilities in Treck TCP/IP Stack Affect Hundreds of Millions of Devices

A set of 19 vulnerabilities have been identified in the TCP/IP software library developed by Cincinnati-based Treck Inc., a developer of real-time embedded internet protocols ...

June 15, 2020

Another Phishing Attack Impacts University of Utah Health

University of Utah Health has been impacted by a new phishing attack, with the most recent attack leading to the exposure of the protected health ...

June 11, 2020

June 23, 2020: MVP GrowthFest: Join Magic Johnson and Channel All-Stars at this Must Attend Virtual MSP Event

Businesses in all industry sectors have faced difficult challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic and have had to make considerable changes in order to survive. ...

June 7, 2020

Illegal Disposal of Patient Records Discovered by St Joseph Health System

St Joseph Health System in North Central Indiana is contacting clients to inform them that a portion of protected health information has been breached and ...

June 4, 2020

Zoom Patches Two Serious RCE Flaws and States E2E Encryption Will Not Be Available to Free Users

Two high severity vulnerabilities in the Zoom videoconferencing platform have been identified by researchers at the Cisco Talos threat intelligence team that could allow a ...

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