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With 2017 now in the rear-view mirror, the security industry is turning its attention to 2018. The new year will no doubt present its fair share of challenging digital security threats. So too will it present numerous opportunities for infosec professi… Continue reading The Top 17 Information Security Conferences of 2018
VTech Electronics Limited has agreed to pay $650,000 as part of a settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for a 2015 breach that exposed millions of parents’ and children’s data. On 8 January, the United States District… Continue reading VTech to Pay FTC $650K for 2015 Breach of Parents’, Children’s Data
Criminals might have accessed the personal and medical information of 30,000 Florida Medicaid recipients via a successful phishing attack. On 2 January 2018, Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (Agency) received the preliminary findin… Continue reading 30K Florida Medicaid Recipients’ Data Possibly Accessed in Phishing Attack
We already know the security industry witnessed several significant ransomware attacks in 2017. Some of these campaigns derived at least part of their success from recent developments among malware families more generally. These trends will no doubt co… Continue reading 3 Malware Trends to Watch Out for in 2018
Attackers abused the website of a Ukraine-based accounting software developer to serve banking malware to unsuspecting users. The attack occurred in August 2017 around the Independence Day holiday in Ukraine. At around that time, unknown individuals ha… Continue reading Ukrainian Accounting Software Developer’s Website Abused to Push Out Banking Malware
A data breach involving the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) might have exposed more than 240,000 current and former federal employees’ personally identifiable information (PII). On 3 January, DHS published a statement about the securit… Continue reading 240,000 Federal Employees’ PII Potentially Exposed in DHS Data Breach
A school district in North Carolina intends to spend $314,000 on rebuilding more than a dozen servers affected by a malware attack. On 27 December 2017, the board for Rockingham County School District held an emergency meeting and voted 7-1 to approve … Continue reading School District to Spend $314K on Rebuilding Servers after Malware Attack
An American health care system is notifying 29,000 patients of a privacy breach that might have exposed their medical records. On 29 December 2017, SSM Health published a statement about a security incident it had learned about two months earlier. The … Continue reading Health Care System Notifies 29K Patients of Privacy Breach
A data breach at a payment processor might have compromised the personal and financial information of some Tallahassee utility customers. Tallahassee Treasurer Clerk Jim Cooke is warning that a breach at TIO Networks, a company used by Florida’s … Continue reading Data Breach Potentially Struck Tallahassee Utility Customers
A data breach has exposed the login credentials belonging to 300,000 users of RootsWeb, a service owned and sponsored by Ancestry.com. On 4 December 2017, someone posted a file containing the usernames and plaintext passwords of 300,000 users to a hack… Continue reading Data Breach Exposes 300K RootsWeb Users’ Login Credentials