- IDG publishes result of survey showing that the most important tech project for CIO’s is
Cybersecurity. Other projects of less importance included:
o Business intelligence
o Workflow automation
o Artificial intelligence
o Cloud
o 68% will be increasing their spend on cybersecurity in next 12 months
- Modern Healthcare published report that claims 744,500 patients had their PHI as a result of a breach in the month of June, 2020
- The U.S. is considering banning the TikTok app, as it is made by a Chinese company, and could be used by the Chinese government to surveil users and capture info on their mobile device.
- Sonic, the national fast food chain, lost an attempt to dismiss a negligence claim
o Financial institutions are pursuing Sonic over a huge data breach in 2017 that
exposed credit/debit card info from 325 locations
- Florida Orthopedic Institute is being sued for $99 million by patients after their PHI was exposed during recent breach.
- OpenClinic GA, which provides an open source integrated hospital information management system, notified its customers that it discovered 12 security vulnerabilities.
- Roseland Community Hospital of Chicago, IL reported that it lost Internet and phone system services for 24 hours after a car crash cut out services.
- Gemini Advisory reported that a hacking group named “Keeper” is exposing info on 184,000 customers stolen from 570 online stores.
- Agari Security published report that a Russian hacking group named “Cosmic Lynx” is targeting organizations in 46 countries with coronavirus themed email phishing attacks.
- The US Secret Service sent out a security alert that hackers have been attacking managed IT service providers in the U.S. Hackers gain access and then use a springboard to the internal networks of their customers.
- DXC Technology, a business process outsourcing company headquartered in Tysons, VA, notified an unknown number of its customers that its info may have been exposed after it was hit by ransomware.
- Digital Shadows published report stating that more than 15 billion username and password pairs are for sale on the Dark Web.
- The U.S. Department of Justice announced it has indicted Andrey Turchin of Kazakhstan for allegedly being a hacker named “fxmsp”, for stealing from 300 different organizations.
- Kaspersky Security reports that 14.8% of users of products running Android OS who were targeted by malware, were left with undeletable files.
o “A system partition infection entails a high level of risk for the users of infected devices, as a security solution cannot access the system directories, meaning it cannot remove the malicious files”
- Pearson Education suffered a breach exposing info on 13,000 students.
- Malwarebytes is warning consumers that some smartphones running Android have unremovable malware bundled in the phone.
- Salinas Valley Memorial Health System of California notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after an email phishing attack.
- Providence Health Plan of Oregon notified almost 50,000 patients that their PHI may have been exposed after hacking incident.
- Healthcare Fiscal Management Inc. of Wilmington, NC notified 58,000 patients that their PHI may have been exposed after ransomware attack.
- Friendship Community Care of Russellville, AR notified 9,745 patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attack.
- Independence Blue Cross of Philadelphia, PA notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI may have been exposed due to hacking incident.
- Hacker named Trorice Crawford of San Diego, CA was sentenced to 4 years in federal prison for stealing identities from U.S. service members and using them to steal millions of dollars from their bank accounts.