Adirondack Health began notifying over 25,000 patients in early July that a protected health information breach occurred. Adirondack Health, part of Vermont-based Adirondacks Accountable Care Organization (ACO), discovered on March 4, 2019 that an employee’s email had been accessed by an unauthorized individual for two days. Adirondacks ACO ran a Read more…
ITPro Today has reported that Anomali, a threat detection vendor, has discovered a ransomware that targets QNAP network-attached storage devices via a brute-force credential attack that bypasses weak log in credentials. The ransomware, called eCh0raix, scans the internet for publicly accessible QNAP devices. It then encrypts specifically targeted file extensions Read more…
A Florida city that paid $460,000 ransom in June is still struggling to recover. Riviera Beach’s city computer systems were seized, causing havoc in the local police and fire departments. The attack began when a city employee unknowingly opened a malicious email document that downloaded the Emotet Trojan. Emotet then Read more…
Microsoft has issued a warning about a serious and long-running “bug” that affects all 800 million Window 10 users. The vulnerability isn’t an actual bug at all, but a deliberate deactivation of Windows 10 Registry backups by Microsoft despite notification from Registry backups that “The operation completed successfully.” Registry backups Read more…
Scam emails continue to be dangerous but the new kid on the block is calendar scams on smartphones! Kaspersky, international security firm experts, have reported new phishing scams via smartphones that attempt to trick users out of their personal information such as passwords, bank account numbers, passwords and credit card Read more…
January 14, 2020 is the official end of extended support for Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system. Beginning January 14th, Microsoft will no longer provide updates or patches, opening users to vulnerabilities that could easily be exploited by hackers. Estimates say that nearly half of global organizations still use Windows 7. Read more…
Millions of Windows 10 users are exposed to hackers. California security company SafeBreach has reported a flaw in the PC- Doctor Toolbox, a preinstalled analysis software. Worse, the PC-Doctor Toolbox has been rebranded “Support Assist” and comes preinstalled on Dell, Alienware, Staples, Tobii, and Corsair. Taking all of their products Read more…
Exactly ten years after Stuxnet, President Trump approved a cyberattack that took down Iranian missile control. Washington Post sources say the exact impact of the Cyber Command operation isn’t clear, but it was described as “crippling”. As tensions in the Middle East continue to escalate, the Department of Homeland Security’s Read more…
The catastrophic ransomware attack on Baltimore City this year that left several city networks and services disabled (and some still are) has prompted Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) to try to beef up security. The “Maryland Cyber Defense Initiative”, signed on Tuesday by Hogan formally strengthens cybersecurity for the city Read more…
The new “Cold War” is being fought in cyberspace and nobody is safe, especially the US, who has more than 60,000 defense contractors working for them, meaning that foreign adversaries have over 60,000 targets. This is the reason that the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) updated its security. Read more…