Every year, hackers make tens of millions of dollars by holding computers for ransom. In February 2016, the latest victim, was a California hospital. The hospital Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, had to pay $17,000 to have its server reactivated. The attack against the hospital, locked its files, prevented electronic communications and gave the hospital directions […]
On Feb. 28, 2016, the Snapchat team released an apology to its employees explaining that recently, one of its employees fell for a phishing scam and revealed some of its employees payroll information. Although company servers were not breeched, a number of employees have now had their identity compromised. The Snapchat team explained that the […]
The American Dental Association announced that a percentage of flash drives included with the 2016 CDT manual were found to have malware. The 2016 CDT manual included a credit card-sized USB storage device in the back pocket that contains an electronic copy of the book. The discovery was made in early March of 2016, and […]
A new report from TrapX Security, a global leader in deception-based cyber security, warned this week that malware attackers are now targeting medical devices running outdated operating systems like Windows XP and Windows 7. These outdated systems give attackers safe harbors within hospital networks for carrying out data theft in a nearly undetectable manner. TrapX […]
Palo Alto Networks Inc. a cyber-security company told Reuters Sunday that “Apple Inc (AAPL.O) customers were targeted by hackers over the weekend in the first campaign against Macintosh computers”. This was done using ransom-ware, a type of virus that encrypts the data on the infected machine and can only be unencrypted using the correct encryption […]
