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Wamu: Maryland’s Attorney General is warning residents that their medical information and other personal details might have been exposed in a medical data breach affecting more than 20 million patients nationwide. A cyber attack against American Medical Collection Agency, a debt collection company for LabCorp, Quest Diagnostics and other medical providers and companies, potentially exposed patients’ information, including bank account information and social security numbers, officials said...
ITWorldCanada: The FBI this week warned that criminals are taking advantage of the security features of web pages to fool people. Here’s how it works: You click on a link in an email and it goes to a web page asking you to log in. The site looks legit. You look at the address bar and see the site name starts with HTTPS, and beside that is a little green lock. But that doesn’t mean the site is legitimate. HTTPS or that green lock only means the site uses encryption to scramble a login username and password or credit card number. It’s not proof the site is genuine. So here’s the advice from the FBI: Do not simply trust the name of a sender or a company in an email; look at the intent of the message. Suspicious messages have a sense of urgency — you’ve got to act now. If you get a suspicious email with a link from someone you know, confirm it’s legitimate by calling or emailing the contact; don’t reply directly to the email...
Independent: The identities of doctors are selling on the dark web for $500, new research reveals. Hackers are obtaining all the details needed to pose as a medical professional by targetting hospitals and other healthcare organisations, which possess huge troves of highly valuable data. The hacked data is then sold through black markets on the dark web – a section of the internet that is only accessible using specialist software. Documents on sale include malpractice insurance documents, medical diplomas, board recommendations, medical doctor licenses, and DEA licenses...
Wbal: Nearly all Baltimore City employees should be back online by week's end, city officials say. WBAL-TV 11 reports that at a press conference held Tuesday morning by Mayor Bernard C. "Jack" Young, Financial Director Henry Raymond pegged the cost of the ransomware attack thus far at $18 million. The city has spent $1 million on new computer equipment, using emergency contracts that don't have to go before the Board of Estimates...
Cointelegraph: United States sanctions incentivized North Korea to launch cyberattacks involving cryptocurrency, a senior FBI official told a conference. The comments were quoted by South Korean English-language news outlet Korea Herald on May 30. Speaking at an event organized by U.S. thinktank The Aspen Institute, Tonya Ugoretz, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division, said financial strain had driven North Korean state actors to cybercrime.....
Reuters: Microsoft Corp and Facebook Inc have agreed to help boost the security of Canada’s October election by removing fake accounts and cracking down on bots, a top government official said on Monday. Last month the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau complained that the world’s major social media companies were not doing enough to help combat potential foreign meddling in the vote and said Ottawa might have to regulate them. ...
CNN: A leading US real estate and mortgage insurer, First American Financial Corp., left vulnerable an enormous trove of digital documents, some of which may have contained social security numbers and bank account information. Bad actors only needed a web address to view the documents as they were left without password protection or other encryption, according to a Friday post from the popular cybersecurity blog Krebs on Security, which is run by journalist Brian Krebs...
SecurityIntelligence: Just how much are companies struggling to get a handle on cybersecurity risks and digital disruption? According to the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD)’s “2019 Governance Outlook,” boards are uneasy about the various digital risks their organizations face. The report is designed to provide leadership with a picture of the business landscape, and as you might expect, regulations, cybersecurity risks and disruptive technology feature prominently in the list of concerns...
Read more...BigLawBusiness: A former federal prosecutor will oversee cybersecurity oversight and enforcement for New York’s financial services regulator. Justin Herring, the leader of the cyber crimes unit for the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, will take the helm of a newly created Cybersecurity Division at the New York Department of Financial Services, the agency announced May 22. No other state banking and insurance regulator has a unit specifically devoted to cybersecurity, the DFS said...
Read more...Forbes: One does not have to look hard to find cybersecurity in the news. From seemingly daily reports of data breaches to state-sponsored hacking, data security is quickly becoming a real-life threat for most Americans. Federal policymakers also have cybersecurity in front of mind in recent days. Specifically, some lawmakers are reacting to suggestions from a government watchdog agency that the U.S. pipeline system is vulnerable to cybersecurity threats...
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