May 11, 2017 | CyberSecurity
Federal regulators slapped a Houston-based healthcare system with a $2.4 million HIPAA settlement stemming from the disclosure of one patient’s information to the news media without the individual’s consent. Do you think that’s excessive? Read on … the details are quite interesting.
May 10, 2017 | General Security, Malware and Exploits
On Monday 8th of May, Microsoft released an unusual ‘out of band’ update to fix a Remote Code Execution (RCE) bug in their Windows Defender anti-malware solution. The bug was found by Google’s Zero day team researchers Tavis Ormandy and Natalie...
May 10, 2017 | CyberSecurity, Malware and Exploits
Security blogs and news sites are reporting that a new Botnet has been discovered. Named Persirai the botnet has a target base of 1,000 different IP camera models. It was discovered by Trend Micro be finding four command and control server and tracking it backwards to...
May 9, 2017 | Buying Security Products
Poor business decisions can be very costly, especially in cybersecurity, where labeling clean items as malicious, or false positives, can be very damaging. So, how can you simultaneously keep the error rates low, uphold detection rates and keep protection strong? With...
May 7, 2017 | Cyber-Crime, CyberSecurity, Data Breaches
The US Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning to IT services providers, healthcare organizations and three other business sectors about a sophisticated cyber-attack campaign that has been active since April 2016.
