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Isaac Dunifon - Blog

U.S. charges eight in $45 million cyber crime scheme

05/09/2013
By Jessica Dye and Joseph Ax   NEW YORK (Reuters) – Individuals employed around the world by a sophisticated cyber crime ring stole $45 million from thousands of bank automated teller machines within a matter of hours, using hacked debit-card data, U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday.  Read the whole story here – news.yahoo.com

Isaac Dunifon - Blog

Cyber Attack Affects More Than 50 Million Customers

05/04/2013
By ALEXIS SHAW April 27, 2013 Online deals site LivingSocial said its computer systems were hacked on Friday, which may have compromised the personal data of more than 50 million of its customers. Hackers gained access to customer data from the company’s servers, which included their names, email addresses, dates of birth, and encrypted passwords, the company said. The cyber attackers did not gain access to the database where customers’ credit card information was stored, LivingSocial spokesman Andrew Weinstein told ABC News.

Isaac Dunifon - Blog

Feds: NYer hacked into ex-employer’s computer .

05/04/2013
Associated Press CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A Long Island programmer and systems manager is charged with hacking into his former employer’s computer system and causing more than $90,000 in damage. According to Newsday (http://bit.ly/ZEMrqI ), federal prosecutors say Michael Meneses was upset that he’d been passed over for a promotion. They say the alleged activity occurred after he quit in December 2011. U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch says the defendant engaged in a “campaign of cyber vandalism and high-tech revenge.”

Isaac Dunifon - Blog

Twitter’s Solution To Being Hacked: Expect More Of The Same

05/04/2013
Twitter is throwing up its hands.  It doesn’t take 140 characters to say: “We give up.” When the Associated Press’s Twitter account was hacked, it created a furor. Twitter has firmly resolved that…We should come to expect more of this.Read the entire article here – Forbes.com

Isaac Dunifon - Blog

Did the Boston bombs change anything?

04/30/2013
One interesting aspect of our privacy is photography and filming in public places. If you show up in a public place, then any individual can take a picture of you. There’s nothing you can do about it, you just have to accept it. And you ARE being photographed almost all the time. If not on tourists’ snapshots and home videos, then on surveillance cameras operated by the authorities.Read the whole post here – f-secure.com

Isaac Dunifon - Blog

CISPA Add-On Banning Employers from Seeking Facebook Passwords Killed

04/21/2013
As you probably know, on Thursday the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as CISPA. The bill, which aims to help the government react to cybersecurity threats by making it easier to share information between itself and private companies, saw bipartisan support.

Isaac Dunifon - Blog

Retail Surveillance Assists Authorities With Crimes Outside Stores

04/21/2013
Retail surveillance cameras are doing more than just capturing shoplifters as authorities turn to businesses who keep a digital eye on their storefronts. This footage played a critical role in helping authorities see video of the two Boston bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and his brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19.

Isaac Dunifon - Blog

Massive botnet using brute force attack to target WordPress sites

04/13/2013
A huge network of over 90,000 IP addresses has been targeting WordPress blog installations with a brute force attack, attempting to gain access by using the default “admin” username by trying multiple passwords.Click here for the entire posting. Click here for tips on how to secure your wordpress blog.

Isaac Dunifon - Blog

Allen County officials learned that more than 1,100 county employees had personal information, including Social Security numbers, accidentally available on the Web.

03/31/2013
LIMA — Last month, Allen County officials learned that more than 1,100 county employees had personal information, including Social Security numbers, accidentally available on the Web. While the county took the information down within minutes of learning about it, the deed was done, so to speak. While there has been no evidence that any of the data contained in the breach were misused, the county did purchase LifeLock memberships for all employees and the few retired employees affected by the data breach. LifeLock is a company specializing in preventing identity theft.

Apolonio Garcia - Blog

Is Your Vulnerability Management Program Up To Snuff? – The 9 Question Self Assessment

03/29/2013
Vulnerability Management is one of the most fundamental, yet effective security controls that organizations can implement to reduce their exposure to cyber attacks. It is required by almost every regulation and standard that addresses IT management and information security. This includes HIPAA/HITECH, PCI Data Security Standard, ITIL, Microsoft Operations Framework, COBIT, ISO 27001, and NIST, just to name a few.

Apolonio Garcia - Blog

HealthGuard Ups the Ante on HIPAA Compliance

03/28/2013
HealthGuard Ups the Ante on HIPAA Compliance James D. Brown, CTO, StillSecure

Apolonio Garcia - Blog

HIPAA Case Study: MEEI

03/26/2013
Case Study of Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates Inc. The US Department of Health & Human Services released information about MEEI’s HIPAA Case in September 2012. The incident involved an employee storing patient health information on an unencrypted laptop which was then stolen from the employee. After an investigation, the Department of Health & Human Services determined that MEEI was in violation of the following: 1. They weren’t conducting risk assessments

Apolonio Garcia - Blog

Channel 9 News Exclusive – Hotel scammers want your credit card

03/08/2013
 HealthGuard security expert Apolonio Garcia showed us how he could create his own wireless internet access point at any hotel – and label it “Hotel Wi-Fi.”Read the article

Isaac Dunifon - Blog

Cyber criminals target mobile users, social media

02/07/2013
Australia’s top cyber cops are warning that social networking sites such as Facebook are increasingly being targeted by cyber criminals as a way to steal internet users’ money. The growing commercialisation of social media through links to online trading such ”buy, swap and sell” sites means cyber crooks now have a strong motivation to hack people’s account details, police say. [Smartphones] can be compromised as easily as your computer can be compromised. – Scott Mellis, Federal Agent

Isaac Dunifon - Blog

Preservation of Life & Property event

01/26/2013
PERRY proTECH and the Allen County Sheriff’s Office are organizing the first annual Public Safety Event “Preservation of Life & Property” to be held in Lima OH on February 19, 2013 at the Veterans Memorial Civic & Convention Center. 

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