Cybersecurity Updates
- Positive Technologies published research that 93% of penetration tested computer networks are vulnerable to some type of security breach.
- 71% of the cases, an attacker could affect businesses in a way deemed “unacceptable”
- Fort Smith Health Centre of Fort Smith, Canada notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after paper medical records were discovered spread across the floor in a staff washroom.
- SonicWall notified an unknown number of customers of potential security vulnerabilities in its SMA 100 series of remote access devices
- Two commercial print shops, Command Marketing Innovations and Strategic Content Imaging, agreed to pay $130,000 to state of New Jersey to settle HIPAA violation allegations
- HP warned of vulnerabilities with its 9000 EPYC server hardware
- Could be used to mine the cryptocurrency Raptoreum using new Java Log4j vulnerability
- Fitch Ratings reports that an unknown number of healthcare and finance organizations are impacted by recent breach of human resource management solutions provider, Kronos.
- Capital Region Medical Center of Jefferson City, Missouri notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI may have been exposed during recent cyber attack.
- Monongalia Health System (aka Mon Health) of Morgantown, West Virginia, notified 399,000 patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attack.
- Microsoft is warning that hackers could use a Microsoft Office patch to steal personal data
- Flaw could allow a Microsoft Cabinet archive, containing malicious executable, to be automatically downloaded
- Uses Microsoft Word documents that have embedded malicious code