2020

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Govt. Services Firm Tyler Technologies Hit in Apparent Ransomware Attack

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Tyler Technologies , a Texas-based company that bills itself as the largest provider of software and technology services to the United States public sector, is battling a network intrusion that has disrupted its operations. Tyler Technologies declined to say how the intrusion is affecting its customers.

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FEMA IT Specialist Charged in ID Theft, Tax Refund Fraud Conspiracy

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An information technology specialist at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was arrested this week on suspicion of hacking into the human resource databases of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in 2014, stealing personal data on more than 65,000 UPMC employees, and selling the data on the dark web.

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FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data

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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today proposed fines of more than $200 million against the nation’s four largest wireless carriers for selling access to their customers’ location information without taking adequate precautions to prevent unauthorized access to that data.

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Florence, Ala. Hit By Ransomware 12 Days After Being Alerted by KrebsOnSecurity

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that their information technology systems had been infiltrated by hackers who specialize in deploying ransomware. based cybersecurity firm Hold Security , KrebsOnSecurity contacted the office of Florence’s mayor to alert them that a Windows 10 system in their IT environment had been commandeered by a ransomware gang.

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‘War Dialing’ Tool Exposes Zoom’s Password Problems

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Security experts at Check Point Research did exactly that last summer , and found they were able to predict approximately four percent of randomly generated Meeting IDs. This suggests that many Zoom users have disabled passwords by default and/or that Zoom’s new security feature simply isn’t working as intended for all users.

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Europe’s Largest Private Hospital Operator Fresenius Hit by Ransomware

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Fresenius , Europe’s largest private hospital operator and a major provider of dialysis products and services that are in such high demand thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been hit in a ransomware cyber attack on its technology systems. In late April, Parkview Medial Center in Pueblo, Colo.

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Medical Debt Collection Firm R1 RCM Hit in Ransomware Attack

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The company has access to a wealth of personal, financial and medical information on tens of millions of patients, including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, billing information and medical diagnostic data.