HHS Releases Best Practice Healthcare Cybersecurity Guidelines
With cyber attacks on the rise healthcare organizations must find a secure way to operate with their patients data. How do you store and share your patients' sensitive information? With…
Hundreds of German politicians’ chats, financial details, and other personal information leaks online
An unknown person leaked German politicians’ credit card details, private communications, and other data last month — along with data from rappers and other media figures. Do not let hackers…
Revamped cryptominer strikes Asia through EternalBlue exploit
According to cybersecurity researchers from F-Secure, unpatched machines in Asia are being infected with the latest version of NRSMiner, malware designed to steal computing resources in order to mine for…
Brazilian government to create data protection authority
Brazil's National Authority for Personal Data Protection (ANPD) includes the creation of frameworks on how to handle information and guide organizations on how to adhere to the rules. It will also…
Top 10 Content Collaboration Predictions for 2019
As data ownership will be a defining factor for the entire 2019, other countries will follow the EU's GDPR lead and announce new data regulations, according to the 11th annual…
Arizona MCOs Fail OIG Security Audit, Putting Medicaid Data at Risk
Inspector General audit of two Arizona Managed Care Organizations found significant, security vulnerabilities in its information systems, which call into question the integrity of the systems used to process Medicaid…
Hackers are opening SMB ports on routers so they can infect PCs with NSA malware
Akamai has detected an ingenious malware campaign that alters configurations on home and small office routers to open connections toward internal networks so crooks can infect previously isolated computers. As…
Ransomware Attack Interrupts Care at 2 Ohio Hospitals
Patients needing emergency care were diverted away from East Ohio Regional Hospital and Ohio Valley Medical Center due to a ransomware attack. The emergency transportation team began bringing those patients…
Google accused of GDPR privacy violations by seven countries
The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), of which each of the groups are a member, claims that Google’s “deceptive practices” around location tracking don’t give users a real choice about whether…
Uber fined £900,000 by UK, Dutch privacy regulators over 2016 data breach
Uber's systems were compromised by an attacker who was able to use credential stuffing techniques to expose information belonging to approximately 57 million riders and 7 million drivers. In today’s…
