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Millions of medical images, patient data remain exposed via PACS flaws

SC Magazine

What’s worse, the health systems employing unsecured PACS have also failed to close other critical vulnerabilities, according to data from Dirk Schrader, global vice president at New Net Technologies (NNT). During the first reporting period, Schrader found about 180 health systems employing exposed PACS. But the U.S. In the U.S.,

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DOJ To Prioritize Ransomware, 'Disrupt the Whole Chain'

SecureWorld News

Regardless, Dirk Schrader, Global Vice President of Security Research at New Net Technologies (NNT), says this cannot be the only thing: "Raising the priority of ransomware attacks is certainly a good step, although it cannot remain the only one in order to be effective in reducing the amount of ransomware cases.

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DOJ to Prioritize Ransomware, 'Disrupt the Whole Chain'

SecureWorld News

Regardless, this cannot be the only thing, says Dirk Schrader, Global Vice President of Security Research at New Net Technologies (NNT): "Raising the priority of ransomware attacks is certainly a good step, although it cannot remain the only one in order to be effective in reducing the amount of ransomware cases.

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HHS urges providers to secure PACS vulnerabilities exposing medical images

SC Magazine

The researcher behind these reports, Dirk Schrader, global vice president at New Net Technologies (NNT), explained that it’s likely that the health systems leveraging exposed PACS are also operating systems with other critical vulnerabilities. The massive exposures were first brought to light by ProPublica in September 2019.

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Holes in Linux Kernel Could Pose Problems for Red Hat, Ubuntu, Other Distros

eSecurity Planet

Shawn Smith, director of infrastructure at application security vendor nVisium, told eSecurity Planet that while the vulnerabilities are serious, the silver lining is that both require an attacker to be a local authorized user. “On Systemd includes a range of components for Linux OSes, according to Jogi. Severe Potential’.

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SolarWinds attackers leveraged trust in Constant Contact email marketing, USAID, to launch campaign

SC Magazine

Using this hijacked account, the adversaries sent phishing emails to roughly 3,000 email accounts at more than 150 different organizations, reported Microsoft blog post author Tom Burt, corporate vice president, customer security and trust. Treat them like you treat your own infrastructure.”.