July 22, 2021 25,000 Patients Contacted About Lake County Health Department Data Breaches The personal and protected health information of approximately 25,000 patients has potentially been impacted in two separate data breaches according to the Lake County Health ... Read more
July 17, 2021 How to Fix Cognitive Dissonance in Password Creation A recent report has highlighted the lack of care of Internet users when it comes to their online activity. The 3rd Psychology of Passwords Report was ... Read more
July 1, 2021 Is Bitwarden the Most Secure Password Manager? Bitwarden is a powerful password management solution with some great features and excellent security. You can easily create strong and unique passwords for all of ... Read more
July 1, 2021 CISA Creates Catalog of Bad Practices in Cybersecurity The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has published a catalog of bad practices in cybersecurity. These practices ... Read more
June 24, 2021 30 Million Devices at Risk from Dell SupportAssist RCE Vulnerabilities Researchers at Eclypsium have identified four serious vulnerabilities in the BIOSConnect feature of Dell SupportAssist that could be remotely exploited by attackers to gain full ... Read more
June 11, 2021 Phishing Attack Affects Up to 34,862 Lafourche Medical Group Patients 34,862 patients of Lafourche Medical Group, a Louisiana-based urgent care center operator, have been made aware that a security incident may have resulted in a ... Read more
June 10, 2021 Best Password Manager for Android Android is the most widely used mobile operating system – commanding 72% of the global market share – and most Android devices are supplied with ... Read more
June 8, 2021 Microsoft Patches 41 Vulnerabilities, Including 5 Critical Flaws and 7 Zero-Days June 2021 Patch Tuesday has seen Microsoft release patches to correct 50 vulnerabilities across its range of products, including 7 zero-day vulnerabilities. Five vulnerabilities are ... Read more
May 23, 2021 Patients of Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services Informed of February 2021 Ransomware Attack Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services (RMCHCS) has contacted patients to make them aware of a ransomware attack that hit the organization during February 2021 ... Read more
May 15, 2021 330K Patients Impacted in Ransomware Attack on New York Medical Group Orthopedic Associates of Dutchess County has revealed that the protected health information (PHI) of some of its clients may have been impacted during a recent ... Read more
May 15, 2021 TitanHQ Launches WebTitan OTG (on-the-go) for Chromebooks TitanHQ, the leading provider of cloud-based email and web security solutions to SMBs and MSPs serving the SMB market, has announced the release of a ... Read more
May 12, 2021 How Often Should Administrators & Network Users be Required to Change their Password? It is common knowledge that passwords should be changed on a regular basis but there is much confusion about how often they should be changed. ... Read more
May 12, 2021 Microsoft Issued Patches for 55 Vulnerabilities Including 4 Critical Flaws It has been a relatively quiet Patch Tuesday for Microsoft, with patches released to correct just 55 vulnerabilities across its product suite. None of the ... Read more
May 8, 2021 NIST Password Recommendations One of the best ways to protect online accounts is by following the Digital Identity Guidelines published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology ... Read more
May 1, 2021 Is Incognito Mode Safe? It is a common misconception that choosing to open a new browser window in Incognito Mode will mean that you are effectively operating under an ... Read more
April 20, 2021 Why Passwords are Important To explain why passwords are important, a simple analogy is to compare the login credentials you use to access an online account to your home. If ... Read more
April 16, 2021 HHS Information Blocking Regulations Now in Effect Created by the Department of Health and Human Services as part of the 21st Century Cures Act, the information blocking regulations are now in effect ... Read more
April 13, 2021 Microsoft Patches 108 Vulnerabilities Including 19 Critical Flaws April 2021 Patch Tuesday has seen Microsoft issue 108 patches to correct vulnerabilities across its range of products, including one actively exploited zero-day vulnerability and ... Read more
April 3, 2021 Ransomware Attack on Home Healthcare Service Provider Affects 753,000 Individuals 753,107 patients of NY-based provider of home health services Personal Touch Holding Corp are being made aware that a breach of their protected health information ... Read more
March 30, 2021 Critical Flaws Identified in Facebook for WordPress Plugin A critical flaw with a CVSS score of 9.0 has been identified in the official Facebook for WordPress plugin, which is used on more than ... Read more
March 29, 2021 New Jersey Plastic Surgery Practice Pays $30K to OCR Settle HIPAA Right of Access Case The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has revealed a settlement has been agreed with Ridgewood, NJ-based Village Plastic Surgery to resolve a potential breach ... Read more
March 25, 2021 United States Data Protection and Privacy Laws Although not the first state law to address data protection and consumer privacy, the passage of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) made the headlines ... Read more
March 19, 2021 Internet Crime Complaints Increased by 69% in 2020 with $4.2 Billion in Losses to Cybercrime During the pandemic, cybercriminals stepped up their attacks on businesses and individuals and record numbers of complaints about cybercrime were filed with the Federal Bureau ... Read more
March 4, 2021 AllyAlign Health Ransomware Attack Impacts Tens of Thousands of Patients Following an attempted ransomware attack that took place November 13, 2020, AllyAlign Health breach alerts have been sent to make members and providers aware of ... Read more
February 25, 2021 Cisco Patches Critical Flaws in its Application Services Engine and ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator Cisco has released a patch to address a critical flaw in the API endpoint of the Cisco ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO) installed on the Application ... Read more
February 24, 2021 U.S. Healthcare Data Breach Report for January 2021 January witnessed a 48% month-over-month drop in the number of large healthcare data breaches, down from 62 breach incidents in December to 32 in January, ... Read more
February 22, 2021 Harvard Eye Associates Pays Ransom to Recover Healthcare Data Stolen in Hacking Incident In California, Laguna Hills-based Harvard Eye Associates has been affected by a cyberattack on its online storage vendor and the protected health information (PHI) of ... Read more
February 18, 2021 US Healthcare Data Breach Report Shows Breaches Increased by 55% In 2020 An analysis of 2020 healthcare data breaches has been conducted by Bitglass that shows the extent to which the healthcare industry was targeted by hackers. ... Read more
February 10, 2021 Microsoft Fixes 56 Flaws on February 2021 Patch Tuesday Including 1 Zero Day Compared to previous months, February 2021 Patch Tuesday saw relatively few patches released by Microsoft to correct flaws across its range of products, although several ... Read more
February 5, 2021 U.S. Companies Slow to Terminate Access to Systems When Employees Leave the Company When an employee is terminated or leaves a company for other reasons, access to systems should be immediately revoked, but in the U.S., many companies ... Read more