Security Leftovers
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Linux Ransomware Poses Significant Threat to Critical Infrastructure [Ed: Seems like a blatant effort to shift attention and blame. 90% or 95% of the time ransomware is a Windows issue.]
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Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (bind9, libapache2-mod-auth-openidc, and python-django), Fedora (nodejs18 and redis), Red Hat (python3.9 and webkit2gtk3), Scientific Linux (bind and kernel), SUSE (cni, cni-plugins, cups-filters, curl, dbus-1, ImageMagick, kernel, libheif, and python-requests), and Ubuntu (bind9, connman, curl, libwebp, and yajl).
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Tampa General Hospital confirms cybersecurity incident; 1.2 million patients being notified
Tampa General Hospital in Florida was hit by a cyberattack during three weeks in May, according to a statement issued by the hospital earlier today. The incident, discovered on May 31, affected approximately 1.2 million patients.
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Stephen F. Austin State University breach included counseling records
The attack occurred on June 12, and the university has still not fully recovered from it, as the “online outages” update of July 17 reports.
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Now a third plastic surgery practice has nude patient photos leaked
Earlier this week, DataBreaches reported that two plastic surgery practices in California had both suffered cyberattacks. When the doctors did not pay ransom demands, attackers leaked nude patient pictures and patient info. One attack was by AlphV (BlackCat) on Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery. The other attack was by an unnamed group or individual on Gary Motykie, MD. The style of the leak site and contact methods for the Motykie leak site were not familiar to DataBreaches, and a spokesperson for AlphV told DataBreaches that they were not responsible for the Motykie attack or leak site.
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Recycling giant TOMRA pulls systems offline following 'extensive cyberattack'
Norwegian mining and recycling giant TOMRA says it has isolated tech systems as it deals with an "extensive cyberattack."
TOMRA has multiple divisions that focus on areas including waste and recycling solutions, metal sorting systems, mining machine systems and food sorting equipment. It turned over $1.2 billion in calendar 2022.