Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 112.  It is Monday April 27th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and Ransomware is Down but All Attacks are Up

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Nintendo Confirms Breach of 160,000 Accounts

Latest Apple Text-Bomb Crashes iPhones via Message Notifications

Hackers are exploiting a Sophos firewall zero-day

Contact tracing apps unsafe if Bluetooth vulnerabilities not fixed

Ransomware attacks against key sectors fall amidst coronavirus outbreak

Researchers: 30,000% increase in pandemic-related threats

March 2020 Healthcare Data Breach Report

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 111.  It is Friday April 24th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and No Security Training For A Year Will Lead to Epic Failures

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Skype Phishing Attack Targets Remote Workers’ Passwords

Hackers Trick 3 British Private Equity Firms Into Sending Them $1.3 Million

Most Remote Workers Have Received No Security Training for a Year

Online leak undermines Torrance’s claim that no personal data was affected by cyberattack

Windows 10 KB4549951 update fails to install, causes BSODs

HHS Delays Enforcement of New Interoperability and Information Sharing Rules

HHS’ Office of Inspector General Proposes Rule for Civil Monetary Penalties for Information Blocking

 

 

 

 

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Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 110.  It is Thursday April 23rd 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and Data Breaches, Updates and Google..oh my.

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More Updates

Apple Patches Two iOS Zero-Days Abused for Years

Connected Home Hubs Open Houses to Full Remote Takeover

Nearly 25,000 email addresses and passwords allegedly from NIH, WHO, Gates Foundation and others are dumped online

US #COVID19 Relief Fund Leaks Data on Thousands of Firms

Google wants to make it easier to analyse health data in the cloud

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 109.  It is Wednesday April 22nd 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and Fitbit to Track COVID-19?

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NFL Tackles Cybersecurity Concerns Ahead of 2020 Draft Day

Researcher Discloses 4 Zero-Day Bugs in IBM's Enterprise Security Software

Detroit hospital network says data breach affected more than 100,000 patient accounts

Hacker returns $25 million after their IP address is exposed

Work-from-Home Exposes Already-Infected Machines in 50K US Organizations

DoppelPaymer Ransomware hits Los Angeles County city, leaks files

New Orleans Hit With Ransomware Again

Scripps, Stanford working with Fibit to assess wearables' COVID-19 tracking abilities

PHI of 41,000 Patients Exposed in Aurora Medical Center and UPMC Altoona Phishing Attacks

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 108.  It is Tuesday April 21st 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and You Didn’t Really Think It Would Work, Did You?

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German government might have lost tens of millions of euros in COVID-19 phishing attack

Hackers selling 267 million Facebook records on hacker forum

FBI says that sharing personal info online only helps scammers

Students, university clash over forced installation of remote exam monitoring software on home PCs

Beaumont Health Notifies 112,000 Patients About May 2019 Data Breach

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 107.  It is Monday April 20th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and It’s an AMAZEing Monday

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CISA Warns Patched Pulse Secure VPNs Could Still Expose Organizations to Hackers

GitHub users being hit with credential stealing phishing messages

Apple Releases Security Update for Xcode

US govt: Hacker used stolen AD credentials to ransom hospitals

Leading accounting firm MNP hit with cyberattack

Microsoft: Trickbot in hundreds of unique COVID-19 lures per week

IT services giant Cognizant suffers Maze Ransomware cyber attack

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 106.  It is Friday April 17th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and No Zoom News is Good Zoom News

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‘Double Extortion’ Ransomware Attacks Spike

Streaming TV Fraudsters Steal Millions of Ad Dollars in ‘ICEBUCKET’ Attack

Malware found on 45 percent of home office networks

Hospital Computer System Not Fully Restored After Attack

Linksys forces password reset for Smart Wi-Fi accounts after router DNS hack pointed users at COVID-19 malware

Gmail blocked 18M COVID-19-themed phishing emails in a week

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 105.  It is Thursday April 16th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and How to Determine What Companies to Work With After COVID-19

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PPE, COVID-19 Medical Supplies Targeted by BEC Scams

U.S. Offers Rewards up to $5 Million for Information on North Korean Hackers

49 New Google Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking Cryptocurrency Wallets

EA Sports down – Gaming giant hit by massive DDoS attacks

Bad Actors Infiltrated New York’s State Government Computer Network

Cyber security researchers uncover hidden backdoors and secret commands in 12,000 Android apps

Exploit for Zoom Windows zero-day being sold for $500,000

Free tools and services for businesses during the COVID-19 crisis

Washington University School of Medicine Breach Impacts 14,795 Oncology Patients

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 104.  It is Wednesday April 15th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and Thank You Jackie Robinson

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Yesterday was Patch Tuesday

Microsoft April 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 3 zero-days, 15 critical flaws

Intel April Platform Update fixes high severity security issues

Cyberattacks Target Healthcare Orgs on Coronavirus Frontlines

Ransomware attacks lock 2 Manitoba law firms out of computer systems

Exclusive: Personal data of 1.41m US doctors sold on hacker forum

TikTok users beware: Hackers could swap your videos with their own

PHI of 16,600 Patients Potentially Compromised in Ransomware Attack on Andrews Braces

Phishing Attacks Reported by Hartford Healthcare and Saint Francis Ministries

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 103.  It is Tuesday April 14th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and The Economy is Booming

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Oracle Tackles a Massive 405 Bugs for Its April Quarterly Patch Update

Cybercrime May Be the World's Third-Largest Economy by 2021

US consumers report $12M in COVID-19 scam losses since January

Over 500,000 Zoom accounts sold on hacker forums, the dark web

Court Rules McHenry County Health Department Must Disclose COVID-19 Patients’ Names to 911 Dispatchers