Extortion fears after hacker stole patient files from Dutch mental health clinics

Patients of Dutch mental health clinics are being warned that their personal records have fallen into the hands of hackers following a security breach at an online portal that “guaranteed” their privacy.

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10 highest-rated U.S. companies for work-life balance

Almost three-quarters of employees in the U.S. surveyed by Glassdoor pointed to work-life balance as an important factor in choosing a job and company.
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10 highest-rated U.S. companies for work-life balance

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Scottish mental health charity “devastated” by heartless RansomEXX ransomware attack

The RansomEXX ransomware gang has seen fit to publish on the dark web 12GB of data stolen from SAMH, including unredacted photographs of individuals’ driving licences, passports, personal information such as volunteers’ home addresses and phone numbers… Continue reading Scottish mental health charity “devastated” by heartless RansomEXX ransomware attack

Smashing Security podcast #259: Techquilibrium and mediocre linguistic escapades

Wordle – good or bad for the world? Whatever your opinion, at least someone wants to spoil players’ fun. Meanwhile, we take a look at the threat mobile phones can pose to your mental health.

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Jack Daniel – Emerging from the Quarantine Cocoon

TechSpective Podcast Episode 066 It has been a rough year and a half since COVID-19 hit at the beginning of 2020. Thankfully, we are rolling out vaccines at a blistering pace and it seems like there is light at the end of the tunnel and that things wil… Continue reading Jack Daniel – Emerging from the Quarantine Cocoon

Why the extortion of Vastaamo matters far beyond Finland — and how cyber pros are responding

Even for veterans of cybercriminal investigations, the recent extortion of a psychotherapy practice in Finland has been unusual — and disturbing. Rather than sticking only to the common tactic of trying to shake down a breached organization, the attackers who stole tens of thousands of patient records from Vastaamo also demanded ransoms from individual people. In doing so, the thieves have been leveraging some of the most sensitive medical data imaginable, and making it difficult for victims to respond collectively. “Therapeutic notes are at a different level of privacy problems,” said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at Finnish cybersecurity company F-Secure. “I know of a handful of cases where patients were blackmailed for their health data, but those were much smaller breaches. There’s never been a crime in Finland with so many victims as in this one.” While the incident has rocked Finland, prompting an emergency government meeting and costing Vastaamo’s CEO his job, […]

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