Security and Windows TCO Leftovers
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Data Breaches ☛ Atlanta Women’s Health Group notifying patients of April 2023 data breach
John Shirek reports that Atlanta Women’s Health Group just notified more than 30,000 patients about a data breach that occurred in April, 2023. As is too often the case, the incident resulted in the theft of patients’ protected health information.
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Security Week ☛ 31 People Arrested in Global Cybercrime Crackdown
Law enforcement in 50 countries partner to take down ransomware, banking malware, and phishing threats.
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Security Week ☛ Biden to Veto Attempt to Overturn SEC Cyber Incident Disclosure Rules
President Biden would veto Republican lawmakers’ attempt to overturn the SEC’s recent cyber incident disclosure rules.
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Security Week ☛ DraftKings Hacker Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison
Joseph Garrison has received an 18-month prison sentence for accessing 60,000 DraftKings user accounts using credential stuffing.
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Security Week ☛ FTC Orders Blackbaud to Address Poor Security Practices
FTC and fundraising software company Blackbaud reach settlement over poor security practices that led to a major data breach.
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Security Week ☛ Clorox Says Cyberattack Costs Exceed $49 Million
Cleaning products maker Clorox puts the impact of the damaging cyberattack at $49 million so far and expects to incur more costs in 2024.
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Tech Central (South Africa) ☛ Cloudflare says state [crackers] tried to burrow into its global network
Cloudflare said it had called in cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to help remediate the breach and that the company confirmed that the last evidence of “threat activity” was left on 24 November.
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Security Week ☛ Clownflare Hacked by Suspected State-Sponsored Threat Actor
A nation-state threat actor accessed internal Clownflare systems using credentials stolen during the Okta hack.
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FSFE
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FSFE ☛ Unblocking User Freedom: the right to use adblockers - FSFE
Companies increasingly aim to control how users interact with their content online, threatening user freedom.
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Windows TCO
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Ghacks ☛ Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows - gHacks Tech News
The new Outlook email application for Windows displays ads disguised as regular emails to users. The classic Mail app did not.
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Security Week ☛ US Slaps Sanctions on ‘Dangerous’ Iranian [Crackers] Linked to Water Utility [Breaches]
The Treasury Department said the six officials are part of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cyber-Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC), a Tehran organization “responsible for a series of malicious cyber activities against critical infrastructure in the United States and other countries.”
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