Category Archive for "Data Breaches"

What You Need to Know the Next Time You Read Another “Healthcare Security” Article

Just read through this article called “Healthcare orgs fall short on software security” and had a couple thoughts to share. To start, I’ve been in penetration testing, application development security and research for over 15+ years now so I have

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Biggest Challenge for Healthcare: Security and Privacy

Wow, it’s great to see the problem of healthcare security and privacy get some of the spotlight (check out this article). Some of the key points from the article: Criminals are targeting healthcare, because healthcare records can fetch up to

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Android Song Hack

Never mind the fact that the video shows an iPhone in all the video footage, but a security bug in the Android mobile phone code can allow the phone to get hacked by just listening to a specially crafted malicious

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T-Mobile Hack: 15M Records

Looks like the bad guys are back at it, here’s an article that reports that T-Mobile suffered a data breach losing about 15M records. Records from September 2013-2016 are believe to be compromised. –Kevin

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Hackers Stole 5.6M Finger Prints, Now What?

The Office of Personal Management (OPM) indicated that about 5.6 million finger prints were stolen from them during a data breach in the summer. OPM has indicated that the ability to use that finger print data right now is limited,

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Costco’s Photo Center Hack

The data breach news today is Costco’s photo center was reported to be hacked since June 24, 2014. As a large as an organization that Costco is something like this hurts customer trust — so good on Costco for doing

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Why Medical Data Breaches Are Worse

Ever wonder why there seems to be surge in healthcare data breaches these days? Well, when your medical or financial records get stolen, they get sold on the black market. But unlike financial records, you can’t “cancel” your medical like you

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What You Can Learn from the Ashley Madison Hack

You might have heard that the adult cheating site Ashley Madison was hacked recently and that the initial thought from Ashley Madison was that the data compromised did not contain real data. Today there were reports that the data stolen (all

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. Data Breach

After a good summer break, we’re back for Data Protection Fridays and this story was too big to pass up.  On Thursday, JPMorgan Chase & Co. reported that they suffered a compromise of customer information for about 76 million households

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The Most Used Passwords, Top 25

ESET gathered information from a bunch of data breaches and compiled this list of the 25 most used passwords.  It really shouldn’t surprise anyone, but there’s a lot of weak passwords still being used today.  Take a look at the

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