#sensitive-information

#sensitive-information

A cancer patient whose nude treatment photos and medical records were posted online after they were stolen in a ransomware attack, has sued the health-care provider for allowing a "preventable" and "seriously damaging" invident.The proposed class-action lawsuit stems from a February intrusion during which ransomware gang BlackCat (also known as ALPHV) broke into one of the Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) physician's networks, stole images of patients undergoing radiation oncology treatment along with other sensitive health records belonging to more than 75,000 people, and then demanded a ransom payment to decrypt the files and prevent it from posting the health data online.

HOUR BY HOUR Issued on: 03/05/2023 - 07:08Modified: 03/05/2023 - 07:11 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a joint press conference with Estonian Prime Minister after their meeting in Zhytomyr on April 24, 2023.Genya Savilov, AFP Washington did not warn Kyiv about the top-secret documents leaked to internet chat rooms containing sensitive information about Ukraine's war effort before the news broke in the media last month, President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Washington Post.

Batesville, Arkansas CNN An Arkansas judge on Monday ordered President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, to answer additional written questions about his investments, his art sales and other financial transactions as part of a paternity-related case.Hunter Biden also will sit for a deposition in mid-June, where he'll have to answer questions under oath, the judge said.

The Air National Guardsman accused of posting a trove of classified documents to social media is expected back in court Thursday for a hearing on whether he will be kept in jail during the course of his legal case.The detention hearing, which was originally scheduled for last week but was postponed at the last minute, is slated to take place in Massachusetts.

The Air Force suspended two leaders of suspected classified document leaker Jack Teixeira's unit, it said in a statement Wednesday, one week after the unit stopped performing its intelligence mission amid an investigation into the leaks.The commander of the 102nd Intelligence Support Squadron, part of the Massachusetts Air National Guard in which the 21-year-old Teixeira served, was suspended from his leadership position, as was the detachment commander overseeing administrative support, the Air Force said.

STATEWIDE - Attorney General Letitia James has secured $200,000 from Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach LLP (HPMB) for its failure to protect the personal and health care data of New Yorkers, her office announced on Monday.The law firm's inadequate data security measures left it vulnerable to a 2021 breach, compromising the private information of around 114,000 patients, including over 60,000 New Yorkers.

The Duke of Sussex has made a surprise appearance at a High Court hearing in London as the Daily Mail's publisher makes a bid to throw out a set of claims over alleged unlawful information gathering at its titles.Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) is bringing a bid to end High Court claims brought by people including Harry, Sir Elton John and Baroness Doreen Lawrence over the allegations which include the hiring of private investigators to secretly place listening devices inside cars and homes and the recording of private phone conversations.

Nearly four in 10 (39%) older people are not managing their money online and could therefore be at risk of financial exclusion, according to Age UK.A survey found a high level of support for in-person banking, with three-quarters (75%) of over-65s with a bank account wanting to undertake at least one banking task in person at a bank branch, building society or Post Office.

German IT services provider Bitmarck has shut down all of its customer and internal systems, including entire datacenters in some cases, following a cyberattack.The company, one of the largest service providers for German health insurers, said no customer, patient, or insured individuals' data had been accessed in the security breach - at least not according to "the current state of knowledge," according to an April 30 update posted on its temporary website.

Today's NFL rumors surround Andy Reid divulging some sensitive information, Kyle Shanahan kicking himself for a draft choice, and Jim Irsay doing Jim Irsay things.The NFL Draft never ceases to shock the public as year after year there's always one team that makes a jaw-dropping trade or takes the player no one thought they would.

Servers running software sold by Salesforce are leaking sensitive data managed by government agencies, banks, and other organizations, according to a post published Friday by KrebsOnSecurity.At least five separate sites run by the state of Vermont permitted access to sensitive data to anyone, Brian Krebs reported.

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02/09/2023February 9, 2023 Canberra has made it clear that it is not concerned about how China might react.Last year, both the UK and the US banned several similar Chinese tech products.Australia has decided to examine and remove Chinese-made surveillance technology used in government buildings.Defense Minister Richard Marles on Thursday said the Chinese-made cameras could pose a security risk for the country.

Google this week announced that it has obtained a court order that helped it disrupt the CryptBot information stealer's distribution.Initially designed to harvest and exfiltrate sensitive information such as credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and more, CryptBot was also seen distributing banking trojans.

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After that article envio went from 0 to 245 stars on github!With the release of version v0.2.0, envio now includes a new envio launch subcommand that makes it even easier to manage your environment variables.

A group of academic researchers with Northeastern University in Boston and KU Leuven in Belgium have devised a new attack that can intercept Wi-Fi traffic at the MAC (media access control) layer, even between clients that are not allowed to communicate with one another.The attack exploits a Wi-Fi client isolation bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-47522 and impacts Wi-Fi networks with malicious insiders, but can also be used to bypass Dynamic ARP inspection (DAI), the academics say in their research paper (PDF).

Earlier this week, programmer and "accidental security researcher" Simon Aarons disclosed a bug in Google's Markup screenshot editing tool for its Pixel phones.Dubbed "acropalypse," the bug allows content you've cropped out of your Android screenshot to be partially recovered, which can be a problem if you've cropped out sensitive information.

Apple on Monday updated several of its recent security advisories to add new iOS and macOS vulnerabilities, including ones belonging to a new class of bugs.The iOS 16.3 and macOS Ventura 13.2 advisories, originally released on January 23, have been updated to add three vulnerabilities.One of them is CVE-2023-23520, a race condition affecting the crash reporter component, which can allow an attacker to read arbitrary files as root.

Virtualization technology giant VMware on Tuesday pushed out a major security fix to cover a critical vulnerability in its enterprise-facing Carbon Black App Control product.A critical-severity advisory from VMware tracks the vulnerability as CVE-2023-20858 and warns that hackers can launch injection exploits to gain full access to the underlying server operating system.

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It's no shock to see another country banning TikTok from government phones, but France is taking the restrictions a step further.Le Monde reports the French government is banning "recreational" apps like TikTok, Twitter, Netflix and even Candy Crush from public servants' devices.

32 minutes ago32 minutes ago New Zealand is now the latest country to ban the popular video-sharing app from government-related phones to protect sensitive information.New Zealand on Friday banned the short-video sharing app TikTok from devices with access to the country's parliamentary network, citing cybersecurity concerns.

Following a similar decision by the US, Canada, Belgium and the European Commission, the UK is also banning TikTok from government devices over security concerns.The ban takes immediate effect.Here's what the Cabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden has to say about it.The security of sensitive government information must come first, so today, we are banning this app on government devices.

The British government banned TikTok on government phones over security concerns on March 16, 2022.Joel Saget, AFP Britain said on Thursday it would ban TikTok on government phones with immediate effect, a move that follows other Western countries in barring the Chinese-owned video app over security concerns.

The United Kingdom government has banned use of Chinese social media platform TikTok among ministers and officials on their work devices as a "precautionary" measure over worries the app is used to snoop on Brits.Speaking to Parliament this afternoon, Oliver Dowden, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Secretary of State who oversees Cabinet Office policy, said the ban would have immediate effect and applied to devices issued within ministerial and non-ministerial departments, but not to "personal devices for government employees or ministers or the general public."

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak has hinted that the UK could follow in the US and the European Union's footsteps by banning the popular social media app TikTok on Government phones and devices.

Lawyers acting on behalf of the Government have defended the exceptional disclosure delays in the Russian-state Salisbury poisonings inquiry, saying sensitive information has been found in more than 1,000 documents.The counsel to the Dawn Sturgess inquiry, Andrew O'Connor KC, said there is still some way to go and his team would not be ready for substantive hearings until the middle or end of next year.

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The National Security Agency (NSA) has published some new advice for those working from home to secure their work devices and home networks.In issuing some fairly basic and standard advice, it noted that those in telecommunications specifically should make sure their user and networking devices are kept up to date to prevent compromises to their own and their organization's security posture.

Django is a powerful and popular web framework that makes it easy to build robust and secure web applications.One of the key features of Django is its ability to manage user sessions, which are essential for many web applications.However, you may be wondering if Django sessions are secure.In this article, we'll explore the security of Django sessions and see how they can be made even more secure.

Fortinet says it saw an average of 500 million total malware detections per month in 2022, with Microsoft Windows executables as the primary vehicle
MANILA, Philippines - Cybersecurity firm Fortinet, the world's third largest cybersecurity vendor in terms of market share in Q3 2022, revealed in an annual report published in January that attackers focused the most on vulnerabilities related to remote code execution.

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued advice and guidance for users of AI tools such as ChatGPT that rely on large language model (LLM) algorithms, saying that while they present some data privacy risks, they are not necessarily that useful currently when it comes to deploying them in the service of cyber criminal activity.

Researchers at Trellix have uncovered what they claim to be an entirely new class of privilege escalation vulnerability in Apple devices stemming from the infamous ForcedEntry exploit used by disgraced Israeli spyware manufacturer NSO Group to let its government customers target activists, journalists and political opponents.

Businesses, regardless of their size and industry, are vulnerable to cyber attacks.Hackers are getting more sophisticated, and exploiting vulnerabilities in the systems to their advantage.The threat landscape is constantly evolving, and organisations must update their cyber security strategies to better protect their data.

Compliance Concerns
JP Morgan is cracking down on the use of OpenAI's ChatGPT in the workplace, Bloomberg reports - though apparently not in response to a particular incident, and it remains unknown how many employees might have been fooling around the AI-powered chatbot while on the clock.Instead, the restriction, which applies to the bank's global staff, was enacted to limit third-party software "due to compliance concerns," according to CNN's reporting.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email When Dame Sally Mapstone, the newly appointed principal of St Andrews University, banned her fellow academics from starting emails with I hope this finds you well, she did not expect it would one day ouwit hackers from the Russian state.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Watch as a former British embassy security guard is sentenced for spying.David Smith, 58, has been convicted of spying for Russia after he pleaded guilty to eight offences under the Official Secrets Act.