Cyber Attack on Community Health Systems lost data

Reuters story: Community Health Systems has 2 area hospitals in Granite City  and Red Bud  (in Illinois side of Saint Louis Metro)   Community Health systems has 206 regional hospitals across the country, and it appears that malware infected some computers. Interesting note: “The company said it and its security contractor, FireEye Inc unit Mandiant, … Read more

Next Unit of Computing(NUC) – great secure computing platform

If one sets up a computer correctly it can be very secure. With the right anti-virus/anti-malware solution, the NUC can be a very effective business platform. The NUC can be set up with a SSD hard drive and thus will have a very low maintenance profile (with no moving parts inside). Our partner Lazerware uses Centurion … Read more

Smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi downloads all personal data

International Business Times  story The Xiaomi phones are sold in China and the head of global expansion was a Google executive. F-Secure a Finnish co.   and their blog: Finances of F-secure and more I know them as an Anti-Virus company among other things.  

JimmyJohn’s investigating breach with customer credit cards

KrebsonSecurity has the story.  There was unauthorized card activity known due to cards that were created by the stolen card data. (this credit card fraud is called “card-present”) The speculation is that JimmyJohn’s has been breached and at this point we are waiting for JimmyJohn’s investigation.   In the meantime if you want a delicious … Read more