Author name: HIPAA Editor

Microsoft and Adobe have issued patches for 150 vulnerabilities this February 2019 Patch Tuesday. These updates included patches for 43 critical Adobe flaws and 20 critical Microsoft flaws. Microsoft only identified one vulnerability that hackers were actively exploiting in the wild. The Google Project Zero team identified the exploited vulnerability. The vulnerability, CVE-2019-0676, is in …

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VFEmail has announced that it has suffered a debilitating cyber attack which saw nearly all of their data compromised. VFEmail, an email provider, issued a statement which stated that all of its virtual machines, mail servers, and backup servers were lost. VFEmail investigators estimated that almost two decade’s worth of data was lost in the …

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A business associate of Blue Cross Blue Shield has announced that it was the victim of a ransomware attack. The breach was reported by Wolverine Solutions Group, a Texas-based supplier that provides business services to Blue Cross Blue Shield, a Michigan health insurance organisation. An investigation into the breach determined that on September 23, 2018, …

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A phishing attack at Family Physicians Group, Orlando, has resulted in 8,400 patients having their protected health information (PHI) compromised. The breach was identified on August 21, 2018. An official investigation into the breach revealed that a staff member’s email account was accessed by an unauthorised individual, with access first gained on August 7. It …

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