A massive DDoS attack targeted the Dyn DNS service and caused an extended Internet outage. How the attackers powered the attack? Yesterday a massive DDoS attack targeted the DNS service of the Dyn company, one of the most authoritative domain name system (DNS) provider, and caused an extended Internet outage. A large portion of Read more…
Someone stole $81 million from Bangladesh Bank in a matter of hours, and appears to have targeted other banks that use SWIFT. How did it occur? When reports surfaced in February of a spectacular bank hack that sucked $81 million from accounts at Bangladesh Bank in just hours, news headlines Read more…
https://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-md-medstar-healthcare-hack-20160402-story.html Spurred on by the federal government, hospitals in Maryland have moved quickly in recent years to roll out electronic medical records. The benefits are many. Electronic medical records can help patients avoid unnecessary tests. They help doctors tailor treatment even for patients they are meeting for the first time. Read more…
With their stashes of student data and government-funded research, universities are some of America’s juiciest targets for hackers. With their vast stores of personal data and expensive research, universities are prime targets for hackers looking to graduate from swiping credit card numbers. These aren’t college kids trying to change their Read more…
Anthem, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, said late Wednesday that the personal information of tens of millions of its customers and employees, including its chief executive, was the subject of a “very sophisticated external cyberattack.” The company, which is continuing its investigation into the exact scope of the Read more…
https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/insider-threat-management/throwback-thursday-lessons-learned-2008-heartland-breach What’s the worst thing that could happen in a data breach? If you said millions of dollars in losses, a business forced to go on hiatus, scores of compliance violations and tons of bad press, then you might have worked at Heartland Payment Systems back in 2008. (Although the breaches took Read more…
Experts at Kaspersky Lab revealed that the capabilities of the Equation Group Surpass anything known in terms of sophistication of hacking techniques. Security experts at Kaspersky revealed the existence of a hacking group operating since 2001 that targeted practically every industry with sophisticated zero-day malware. According to a new report Read more…
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2014/10/02/jp-morgan-says-76-million-households-affected-by-data-breach/?sh=75f91c707a2a JPMorgan Chase , the nation’s largest bank by assets, has revealed the scope of the cyber-attack that compromised its data in mid-August. And while the number of households affected doesn’t surpass the 110 million accounts that were compromised in the Target data breach in late 2013, it does comprise more than half of Read more…