April 29th, 2019 by admin
Say it isn't so, Chipotle. A stream of Chipotle customers have said their accounts have been hacked and are reporting fraudulent orders charged to their credit cards — to the tune of hundreds of dollars. Customers have also posted on several...
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April 24th, 2019 by admin
Greenville, N.C., has effectively been knocked offline by a ransomware attack with the city IT department having shut down the majority of its servers to limit the extent of the attack. Exploit: Ransomware attack City of Greenville: Part of...
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April 15th, 2019 by admin
It was a prescription for an early retirement when two Michigan based doctors became victims of a ransomware attack. The ransomware encrypted their system which housed patient records, appointment schedules, and payment information rendering the data...
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April 8th, 2019 by admin
Not once, not twice, but THREE times... A California-based health system recently reported a breach of patient data after two phishing attacks in November and mid-January that gave a hacker access to three employee web email accounts. During the incident,...
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April 1st, 2019 by admin
Ever get an email and you're not sure if you should open it? It happens to everyone. Last week, it happened to employees at an Oregon state agency tasked with running their foster care and welfare programs possibly exposing the personal information...
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March 25th, 2019 by admin
In events that played out like a movie, students in Michigan hacked into their school district's computer system and changed their grades and attendance records. According to statements made online, Jim Nielsen, the superintendent of Orchard View Schools,...
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March 18th, 2019 by admin
When you're trying to run your surgical suite, we're guessing the last thing you want to do is pay hackers $14,000 in a ransomware attack, but that's just what happened to a group of doctors in Washington. Spokane, Wash.-based Columbia Surgical...
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March 11th, 2019 by admin
Attention, sports fans. If you used your credit card to buy anything from the Topps website over the past few months, your credit card information may have been compromised. Recently, the company sent out a notice to potentially impacted customers...
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March 4th, 2019 by admin
Over Presidents' Day weekend, a new malvertising campaign targeting US users’ personal and financial information. Researchers from Confiant observed over 800 million malicious ad impressions as a part of the massive malvertising campaign executed by...
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February 25th, 2019 by admin
Dunkin' Donuts announced earlier this month that it was the victim of a credential stuffing attack during which hackers gained access to customer accounts. So, what is credential stuffing? It's a cyber-security term to describe a type of cyber attack...
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