A new phishing threat has been revealed in which the hacker has created a custom web font on their phishing website which renders the malicious code on the website difficult to detect. Phishing can be defined as the attempt to obtain sensitive information such as passwords or credit card details from a victim by pretending …
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A data security incident at Lebanon VA Medical Center has resulted in the protected health information (PHI) up to a thousand patients being accidentally sent to an unauthorised individual via email. The data breach took place at Veteran Affairs center in Pennsylvania in November 2018. A staff member at the facility accidentally sent an email …
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Mimecast has recently released the results of a survey on employee security awareness training in businesses. The results show that in many organisations, employees are lacking even basic cybersecurity awareness. Mimecast, a company specialising in cloud-based email management, conducted the survey to ascertain workplace awareness of cybersecurity issues. The results show that many business are …
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Prairie Fields Family Medicine has announced that an email error has resulted in the protected health information (PHI) of nearly 6,500 patients being compromised. Prairie Fields Family Medicine, a family clinic that has been working in Freemont, NE, for 30 years, stated that an unencrypted spreadsheet containing the PHI of 6,450 patients was accidentally sent …
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Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, a Texan medical centre based in Frisco, has announced that due to a data security incident, the payment information of nearly 48,000 individuals has been breached. The medical centre is jointly managed by United Surgical Partners International (USPI) and Baylor Scott & White Health. Earlier this year, they discovered …
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Microsoft has issued patches for 39 vulnerabilities this December 2018 Patch Tuesday. Of the vulnerabilities, 10 were rated critical, 9 of which were in Microsoft products and one in Adobe Flash player. Two vulnerabilities were identified as being actively exploited in the wild. The patches cover the following products and services: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, …
Altus Baytown Hospital in Baytown, TX, has announced that it was recently a victim of a ransomware attack, with their servers being infected with the malware strain “Dharma”. The attack was discovered on September 3, 2018. The malware encrypted many of their patient records, and a ransom demand was issued to the hospital. Altus Baytown …
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Bankers Life, a health insurance organisation which is part of the CNO Financial Group Inc., has experienced a data breach which has affected more than 500,000 of their customers. Bankers Life, based in Chicago, Illinois, provides a range of insurance services to customers, including life insurance, long term care insurance, health insurance, and Medicare supplemental …
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Protenus, a healthier security organisation, has released its quarterly Breach Barometer Report for Q3 2018. The report is designed to give an insight into the cause of breaches in the healthcare community, and provide healthcare organisations with information that could assist them in improving the security around protected health information (PHI). Quarter Number of Breaches …
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Raley’s Pharmacy, associated with the family-owned Raley’s supermarket chain, has announced that up to 10,000 patients may have had their protected health information (PHI) compromised following the theft of a laptop from one of their branches. The laptop computer was taken from the pharmacy on September 24, 2018 during a “security incident”. Local authorities were …
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