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The National Insider Threat Awareness Month (NITAM) is being celebrated this September 2020 for the second year. All through the month, resources will be offered to focus on the benefits of uncovering, removing, and reporting insider threats. NITAM is a collaborative effort between a few U.S. government organizations which include the Office of the Under …

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IRONSCALES new research showed a substantial spike in credential theft utilizing spoofed websites. In the first half of 2020, the researchers discovered and reviewed bogus login pages that cloned big brand names. They found around 50,000 fake login pages with close to 200 spoofed brand names. The login pages are included in compromised sites and …

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Beaumont Health, the leading healthcare system located in Michigan, began notifying 6,000 patients about the potential access of their protected health information (PHI) by unauthorized persons because of a phishing attack. Unauthorized persons obtained access to a number of employee email accounts between January 3, 2020 and January 29, 2020. Beaumont Health discovered on June …

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A pharmacy chain reported that looters stole the protected health information (PHI) of some of its clients at the end of May at the time of civil unrest. From May 27 and May 30, 2020, intruders broke into 8 Cub pharmacies established in the Minneapolis area and stole stuff, such as documents with the protected …

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Lorien Health Services based in Ellicott City, MD, which manages 9 assisted living facilities throughout Maryland had encountered a ransomware attack on June 6, 2020. Third-party cybersecurity specialists assisted with the investigation to ascertain whether the attackers accessed patient information. On June 10, 2020, the investigators confirmed that the hackers had accessed files with the …

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A few vulnerabilities were discovered in the Apache Guacamole remote access system. Plenty of companies had been using Apache Guacamole to allow administrators and personnel to have remote access to Linux and Windows devices. The system grew to be popular throughout the COVID-19 pandemic because it helped people link to the network of their company …

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