Category: Cybersecurity News
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Attorney General James Reaches Agreement with Refuah Health Center to Invest $1.2 …
January 5, 2024 NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced an agreement with a Hudson Valley-area health care provider, Refuah Health Center, Inc. (Refuah), for failing to safeguard the personal and private health information of its patients. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) found that Refuah failed to maintain appropriate controls to protect and limit access to sensitive data, including by failing to encrypt patient information and using multi-factor authentication. As…
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Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4 billion claim – Security Affairs
Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4 billion claim over NotPetya damages Pierluigi Paganini January 06, 2024 Merck has resolved a dispute with insurers regarding a $1.4 billion claim arising from the NotPetya malware incident. Merck and its insurers have agreed with a $1.4 billion claim arising from the large-scale NotPetya cyberattack. Merck & Co.,…
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Refuah Health to pay $450K in penalties following ransomware attack – News 12 – Westchester
Jan 06, 2024, 3:39amUpdated 15h agoBy: News 12 Staff Hudson Valley health care provider Refuah Health will have to pay $450,000 in penalties to the state after a ransomware attack leaked patient information. Refuah Health will also have to spend more than $1 million on cyber security. An attorney general investigation found it did not…
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Universities, K-12 schools still recovering from cyber incidents over holiday season
Universities and grade schools across the world have dealt with cyber incidents and ransomware attacks over the last month as hackers targeted lightly-staffed IT teams over the holiday season.On Thursday, Memorial University in Newfoundland warned that a cybersecurity incident announced on December 31 would cause issues for “at least a few weeks.” The school, which…
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These Six Texas Industries Suffered Hacks in 2023 – Government Technology
These Six Texas Industries Suffered Hacks in 2023
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Kansas courts system reboots after October cyberattack – StateScoop
Kansas courts system reboots after October cyberattack | StateScoop Skip to main content Advertisement Advertisement Close County & Local After a cyberattack in October, the online systems attorneys and members of the public use to file cases and access information are finally coming back online. (Getty Images) The website for searching Kansas district court cases…
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Small town in West Virginia suffers cyberattack – StateScoop
Small town in West Virginia suffers cyberattack | StateScoop Skip to main content Advertisement Advertisement Close County & Local Another year, another cyberattack on a small town in America. (Getty Images) A cyberattack on the municipality of Beckley, West Virginia, caused a security breach within the city’s computer network on Thursday, the city said in…
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Ohio City Still Grappling With Effects of Cyber Attack – Government Technology
Ohio City Still Grappling With Effects of Cyber Attack
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The aftermath of the Kyivstar cyber attack is a warning for us all – TechRadar
The mass outage of Ukrainian mobile and internet provider Kyivstar on December 12 last year has now been attributed to the Russian state-sponsored Sandworm group by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU).The attack resulted in a total outage of the networks provided by Kyivstar, which included a number of early-warning attack systems, and caused a surge in…
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Personal Security Considerations Action Guide – CISA
The Personal Security Considerations Action Guide: Critical Infrastructure Workers helps critical infrastructure workers assess their security posture and provide options to consider whether they are on or off the job. This action guide provides actionable recommendations and resources intended to prevent and mitigate threats to a critical infrastructure worker’s personal safety. For questions regarding this…
