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Stethoscope on laptop showing Change Healthcare ransom payment and patient data

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Change Healthcare Admits to Making Ransom Payment to Protect Patient Data, Discloses That Hacker Broke in Days Before Attack

April 27, 2024

UnitedHealth Group has released further details about the devastating Change Healthcare attack that caused widespread damage throughout the US, taking large chunks of revenue from some care providers and in some cases keeping patients from needed medication. The group has confirmed that it made a ransom payment to restore service.

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CISA Adds Single-Factor Authentication to the List of Bad Cybersecurity Practices

September 13, 2021

CISA added single-factor authentication to bad cybersecurity practices, adding that it was extremely risky for remote and administrative access to critical infrastructure.

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Shadow API is the Leading API Security Threat With Over 5 Billion Attacks, Says API Protection Report

October 10, 2022

Shadow API is the greatest API security risk, with 31% of malicious requests targeting unknown, unmanaged, or unprotected APIs, according to the Cequence API protection report.

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Big Tech Feeling Legislative Heat After Contentious Congressional Hearing on Privacy Issues and Acquisitions

August 10, 2020

Big Tech companies answered to the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee in Wednesday's hearing, which surprised observers with the intensity of its questioning.

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FBI 2023 Internet Crime Report: Cybercrime Rose to $12.5 Billion, Record Number of Complaints Logged as Ransomware Roars Back

March 14, 2024

The total cost of cybercrime jumped to $12.5 billion in 2023, and the FBI logged a record 880,418 complaints (a 10% increase from the previous year). This is in part being fed by ransomware attacks, which came close to doubling in total cost from 2022 to 2023.

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Google Cloud Survey Finds Microsoft Products Unpopular With Security-minded Government Employees, but How Objective Is It?

April 6, 2022

Survey expressing anti-Microsoft sentiment was paid for in part and published by Google Cloud. It polled 2,600 currently employed residents of the US, 338 of these government employees.

Data Privacy News

Message Encryption Not Used in Nebraska Felony Abortion Case Involving Subpoena of Facebook Messenger

August 22, 2022

Facebook was served with a legal warrant and returned a set of messages in which mother and daughter discuss how to properly use abortion pills. The pair appear to have not enabled the optional message encryption.

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Discovery of REvil Backdoor Roils Its Ransomware-As-A-Service Clients

October 7, 2021

The REvil ransomware has become something of a cybersecurity household name but it may be losing some business now that a disgruntled former client has leaked code demonstrating that the group can backdoor its own customers.

North Korean hacker working on computer showing social engineering attacks on crypto companies

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FBI Warns Crypto Companies of Sophisticated Social Engineering Attacks by North Korean Hackers

September 12, 2024

The FBI has warned crypto companies of sophisticated social engineering attacks by North Korean hackers targeting employees to install malware leading to crypto theft.

Blue and red light flasher of police car showing cybersecurity risks of Capitol riot

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Pro-Trump Capitol Riot Posed Potentially Serious Cybersecurity Risks Including Spying and Malware Installation

January 13, 2021

Experts say the pro-Trump Capitol riot posed cybersecurity risks as protesters read email(s), plucked documents, and stole devices, including one connected to the federal network.

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Change Healthcare Admits to Making Ransom Payment to Protect Patient Data, Discloses That Hacker Broke in Days Before Attack

CISA Adds Single-Factor Authentication to the List of Bad Cybersecurity Practices

Shadow API is the Leading API Security Threat With Over 5 Billion Attacks, Says API Protection Report

Big Tech Feeling Legislative Heat After Contentious Congressional Hearing on Privacy Issues and Acquisitions

FBI 2023 Internet Crime Report: Cybercrime Rose to $12.5 Billion, Record Number of Complaints Logged as Ransomware Roars Back

Google Cloud Survey Finds Microsoft Products Unpopular With Security-minded Government Employees, but How Objective Is It?

Message Encryption Not Used in Nebraska Felony Abortion Case Involving Subpoena of Facebook Messenger

Discovery of REvil Backdoor Roils Its Ransomware-As-A-Service Clients

Pro-Trump Capitol Riot Posed Potentially Serious Cybersecurity Risks Including Spying and Malware Installation

Security flaw in Microsoft’s Analytics Platform Titan Exposes 17 Trillion Records

Meta Muse AI Assistant’s Zero-Day Vulnerability Could Enable Attackers to Inject Malware

New Disclosure of “Meddling” OpenAI Agents Includes Attacks on UN and US Government Websites

ShinyHunters Hacks the FBI in a Security Breach Exposing Personal Information of 38,000 People