The Risk of Malware Infection Increases as School Begins As students and staff begin preparing for school to reconvene in August, administrators face increased cyber security risks. The likelihood of malware spreading as both students and staff members connect their own devices to school networks increases exponentially at the beginning of the school year. Why is this? […]
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But That’s Not All… In April, ransomware infiltrated the servers of Golden Heart Administrative Professionals (GHAP), a medical billing, and bookkeeping facility located in Fairbanks, Alaska. The incident was reported to impact approximately 500 of GHAP’s clients, exposing approximately 44,600 patient files. Although there is no evidence the information breached has been used maliciously, GHAP reported
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Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me… In May of 2016, an employee at The National Bank of Blacksburg fell victim to a targeted phishing email. It was this single email that led to a malware infection on not only that user’s computer but a secondary workstation as well. The secondary computer
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Security Best Practices — Are You Implementing Them? Chances are you’ve done it. You left your computer unlocked while you ran to the breakroom, or perhaps kept important documents exposed on your desk while you head out to lunch. This isn’t exactly uncommon, but it is a terrible habit to get into. But wait —
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LabCorp Suffers From Cyber Attack A suspected ransomware attack hit America’s medical lab facility, LabCorp, the weekend of July 14, 2018. Suspicious activity was detected on the company’s diagnostic systems. The ransomware variant has been disclosed as SamSam. This is the same variant that took down the City of Atlanta and Colorado’s Department of Transportation.
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Two Ransomware Attacks Strike in Connecticut Last week, we reported on Middleton School District, located in Connecticut becoming infected with ransomware. This led to only two of their six systems being partially operational. Now, a week later the Derby Police Department released they too have been a victim of ransomware. Although, there is no evidence
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Security Breach Exposed Basically the Entire Timehop Database Timehop, an application that is tied to a users’ social media account(s) for the purpose of resurfacing posts and photos users may have forgotten about, was recently a victim of a serious data breach. To be fair, the app is pretty neat. It will show you things
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Missouri’s Cass Regional Medical Facility Falls Victim to Cyber Attack Cass Regional Medical Center, located in Kansas City, Missouri was infected with ransomware on July 9, 2018. Health IT Security reported the organization responded with their emergency response efforts within 30 minutes of suspected infiltration. The facility’s IT department is continuing work to restore the
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Ransomware Damages Expected to Increase 60% Year-Over-Year Last year, PC Matic reported ransomware damages were expected to reach $11.5 billion by 2019; a 130% increase from 2017. Now, nine months after that initial post, reports are suggesting that total is quite accurate, and unfortunately rather attainable. According to our friends at KnowBe4, ransomware damages are expected
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Breach Releases Personal Details for Millions of U.S. Citizens and Businesses Have you ever heard of Exactis? According to their website, the company states, “Exactis is a leading compiler and aggregator of premium business and consumer data”. They go on to tout “With over 3.5 billion records (updated monthly), our universal data warehouse is one
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