Healthcare IT Support Blog Archives

The New Jersey Institute of Technology is hosting the event from July 22 to July 25, featuring presentations and break-out sessions about a variety of technological innovations. The post VOICE Summit, expecting 5,000 attendees, kicks off at NJIT appeared first on NJBIZ.

A new malware framework has been discovered padding statistics on social sites and ad impressions, according to new research from Flashpoint. Researchers explained that over the course of the past three months, the malware framework has been responsible for more than...

The Essex County city boasts more than 53,000 technology jobs, most in software development, computer programming and database system management, according to the report. The post CBRE ranks Newark as top tech city appeared first on NJBIZ.

The word spoof means falsified. A spoofed email is when the sender purposely alters parts of the email to make the message appear as though it was authored by someone else. Commonly, the sender’s name/address and the body of the message are formatted to appear from a...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and New Jersey Institute of Technology President Joel Bloom used the occasion of the June 26 New Jersey Alliance for Action Inaugural Statewide 5G Construction/Smart Cities Conference to tout the technology infrastructure that wires the...

According to the survey, 97 percent of state residents live in a household with access to the internet. The post Rutgers-Eaglton/FDU Poll: little evidence of a digital divide in New Jersey appeared first on NJBIZ.

Richard Veldran, former chief financial officer for Dun & Bradstreet, began the ceremony with a keynote address detailing his involvement with taking the company private in February and noting the “tremendous lengths of innovation and technology...

Cybersecurity engineers and analysts have been identified as being on the Shortage Occupation List (SOL), in the first full review of officially recognized careers where the shortages “are most severe and where the consequences of those shortages are most serious”...

Flipboard has reset all customer passwords as a precaution after revealing that hackers had unauthorized access to user data for over nine months. The news aggregator site, which has around 150 million monthly users, said the “unauthorized person” gained access to...

Cryptopia, an exchange that was hacked and subsequently went into liquidation in May, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States. Grant Thornton will be handling the preservation of the data stored and hosted on servers with an Arizona-based firm,...

The city of Fredericton, New Brunswick, has agreed to pay C$100,000 (almost $75,000) to cybersecurity company, Bulletproof Solutions, to strengthen its network and protect it from cyber-attacks. The three-year agreement was approved at the city council meeting on...

Equifax has incurred losses so far of over $1.35bn from a devastating 2017 breach which affected more than half of all Americans and millions of UK consumers, the firm revealed in its latest financials. The credit agency claimed in its Q1 2019 earnings statement that...

WannaCry ransomware remains a global threat two years on from the initial outbreak of the attack in May 2017. That’s according to new analysis from Malwarebytes, which discovered that a total of 4,826,682 WannaCry detections have been identified since the malware...

SMS Spammers Expose 80 Million Records Online The administrators of an SMS spam operation left an unsecured MongoDB instance wide open online, exposing over 80 million records linked to their ‘leads,’ according to researchers. Bob Diachenko revealed the discovery in a...

The Oregon DHS recently disclosed that the personal health information (PHI) of over 350,000 clients had been compromised in data breach. A phishing URL embedded into the spear-phishing email was clicked by nine employees, resulting in granting cybercriminals the...

In UK, The Home Office has apologized after an “administrative error” led to the personal details of hundreds of historic migrants being exposed. Around 500 private email addresses were accidentally shared with other applicants of a government compensation scheme for...

With the use of deep learning, researchers Yisroel Mirsky, Tom Mahler, Ilan Shelef and Yuval Elovici at Cyber Security Labs at Ben-Gurion University demonstrated in a video proof of concept (PoC) that an attacker could fool three expert radiologists by falsifying CT...

Some 90% of critical infrastructure (CNI) providers claim that their IT/OT environment has been damaged by a cyber-attack over the past two years, according to a new Ponemon Institute report. Sponsored by security vendor Tenable, the Cybersecurity in Operational...

City officials in Albany, New York, have been working for several days in an effort to restore the city’s systems after it became the latest municipality to be hit with a ransomware attack. Mayor Kathy Sheehan announced the ransomware attack via social media on March...

A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to his part in a global tech support scam conspiracy which netted over $3 million in profits from unsuspected computer users. Bishap Mittal, 24, from Charlotte, worked with an unnamed individual who owns Capstone Technologies, a...

Researchers have raised serious privacy concerns over the use of medical apps in the Google Play store after noting that the majority share user data with third parties. Published in The BMJ this week, the study led by University of Toronto researchers identified 24...

According to the 2019 State of the Call Center Authentication report from TRUSTID, a Neustar company, one of the most exploited areas in a company’s security chain is the call center. Companies may be investing more in their cybersecurity defenses, but fraudsters are...

Kaspersky Lab has filed an antitrust complaint against Apple in Russia, arguing that the tech giant forced it to remove two key features from one of its apps just as Apple’s released similar functionality. The issue boils down to Kaspersky Lab’s use of configuration...

Microsoft's second-generation mixed reality headset has made a significant leap. But you're probably not going to buy one. That’s according to Alex Kipman, technical fellow at Microsoft who is credited with inventing Kinect and HoloLens. Kipman joins the Gadget Lab...

Consumers Donate Data with Recycled Electronics With the rapid turnover of technology, many consumers willingly trade in, sell or donate their old electronics, often times without ensuring that all of their data has been wiped clean, according to new findings from...

Nearly half (49%) of global organizations feel more exposed to security breaches because of skills shortages, according to a new Trend Micro study. The vendor polled 1125 IT decision makers around the world and found that nearly two-thirds (64%) have experienced an...

One of the world’s biggest aluminium producers has been hit by a major cyber-attack affecting production systems, according to reports. Norwegian firm, Norsk Hydro, said it had called in national security authorities to help repel the attack, which appears to have...