JDSupra among other ezines on the Internet have cataloged the Lewis & Clark College in Portland hack Basically in March 2023 the administrators or others at the college learned that there was unauthorized access of their computer systems. Today 2 years later a story came out in the 2600 magazine “the Hackers Quarterly” The article … Read more
why discuss now? This is the FBI 5 Unit61398 From left, Chinese military officers Gu Chunhui, Huang Zhenyu, Sun Kailiang, Wang Dong, and Wen Xinyu indicted on cyber espionage charges. Above Wanted notices included to show this is not an aberration but a consistent policy by CCP. I have written about Chinese PLA (People’s … Read more
Hackernews has another story about exploited devices: Archer routers This router the Archer TP link “The botnet exploits a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in TP-Link Archer routers (CVE-2023-1389) to spread itself automatically over the Internet,” security researchers Ofek Vardi and Matan Mittelman said in a technical report shared with The Hacker News.” As … Read more
There is a new “rulemaking” that is trying to get the process started for updated HIPAA regulations. At the federalregister.gov First we have to review as to how we got here: Regulatory History 1.1996 Congress enacted HIPAA (Health Insurance Public Accountability Act) 2. 1998 Security Rule Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 3. 2003 Final Rule 4. … Read more
BleepingComputer has the story WordPress sites have been hacked and then when you visit the site the following image comes and asks you to click a button which then leads you to enter information so the hacker can steal your crypto money. If you click on these buttons and then connect to your crypto wallets … Read more