Healthcare IT Support Blog Archives
Latest Security Patch released by Microsoft
Microsoft has published today 80 security fixes across 15 products and services, as part of the company's monthly batch of security updates, known as Patch Tuesday. Of the 80 vulnerabilities patched today, two are so-called zero-days -- security flaws that had been...
How many of your employees don’t understand cybersecurity?
Did you know that in the U.S. 70% of employees lack a basic understanding of cybersecurity best practices? Vulnerabilities in your organization can lead to a major fallout in case of a cyberattack. Cyberattack simulation and invocation and test of incident response...
SSL – what it means, how it works and where it is used.
If you want to run commercial transactions, or process your website's data online securely, you need an SSL certificate for your website. Basically, it gives you the valid encryption for the website - and if you ever wondered what is the difference between domains...
Cyberthreats targeting municipalities are on the rise
Local governments are increasingly being targeted by cyber threats. These attacks typically come in the form on ransomware, holding the municipalities’ data hostage until either the ransom is paid or data is restored from a backup. Examples of ransomware attacks in...
How Hackers Can Exploit Medical Information
Cybersecurity breach in any industry is a serious matter. Healthcare professionals are some of the most vulnerable subjects. Not so long ago, one of the largest batch of data containing just over 9.2 million health insurance records was offered for sale on dark web -...
VOICE Summit, expecting 5,000 attendees, kicks off at NJIT
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.
Ad Fraud: one billion of sham Google AdSense ad impressions.
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...
Interview with David Dadian, CEO of powersolution.com
https://njii.com/2019/07/16/interview-with-david-dadian-of-powersolution-com/ Interview with David Dadian of powersolution.com New Jersey Innovation Institute, an NJIT Corporation, July 16, 2019 Tamara Williams of New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) spoke with...
CBRE ranks Newark as top tech city
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.
What is Email Spoofing and How to Identify It?
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...
What You Need to Know About The Dark Web
With the reporting on cybersecurity events such as city-wide ransomware events or massive data breaches making the 6 o’clock news, the dark web has been thrust into the spotlight. But what exactly is the dark web? Is it part of the Internet with the lights off? Is it...
NJIT to Establish New Institute for Data Science
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will establish a new Institute for Data Science, focusing on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and development in all areas pertinent to digital data. The institute will bring existing research centers in big data,...
‘Smart Cities’ conference highlights Newark’s tech infrastructure
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...
Department of Homeland Security Phishing Scam
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) is the Nation’s flagship cyber defense, incident response, and operational integration center. Its mission is to reduce the Nation’s risk of systemic cybersecurity and communications challenges....
Rutgers-Eaglton/FDU Poll: little evidence of a digital divide in New Jersey
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.
NJ Tech Council celebrates annual 2019 CFO + Investor Awards
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...
Quest Diagnostics reports 12 million records of Patient Data Breach Due to Issue with a Vendor
Quest Diagnostics, the New Jersey-based blood testing providers in the country, filed a report with securities regulators, specifying that nearly 12 million of its customers may have had medical, financial, and personal information (inlcuding Social Security numbers)...
Cybersecurity Jobs Added to UK’s Shortage Occupation List
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”...
Impersonation Phishing Attacks Up 67% in Last 12 Months
Mimecast has released its third annual State of Email Security Report and has found that phishing attacks have lost companies money, data and customers. Including insights from 1,025 global IT decision-makers, the report found that social engineering attacks were on...
Flipboard Breached in Nine-Month Raid
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 Fights to Keep Data Held by Arizona Firm
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,...
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada Makes Its Cybersecurity Bulletproof
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 Spent Nearly $1.4billion on Data Breach Costs
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 Remains a Global Threat Two Years On
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
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...
Increased Office 365 Account Attacks
According to released information from Barracuda Networks, Microsoft Office 365 account takeover attacks are one of the most prevalent email attacks for the Office 365 platform. Barracuda states that approximately 29% of Organizations on Office 365 have had at least...
Vulnerabilities Fallout: Not all fixed by Recent Microsoft Patch Releases
In a past month, Microsoft has released patches for over 70 vulnerabilities in its products. The company has been under the fire from users and system administrators for quite some time. The pressure was following the stream of vulnerabilities, including two of a...
PHI of 350,000 DHS Clients Compromised in Phishing Attack in Oregon
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...
Home Office Error to Blame for Windrush Privacy Incident
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...
Fake Malware Tricks Radiologists Diagnosing Cancer
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...
9 in 10 Critical Infrastructure Providers Damaged by Cyber-Attacks
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...
Advanced Phishing Threat: malicious emails posing as Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Office365 message
We have received numerous reports and examples today of an advanced phishing email being used to harvest Office365 credentials. The email is sent through a compromised account of an individual that is familiar, such as a colleague, business partner, vendor, etc. The...
Albany Works Through Impact of Ransomware
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...
IT Security and Cyber Insurance – Working Hand-in-Hand
Protecting your organization, large or small, from cyber attacks rests to a great extent on the IT security infrastructure and processes that are in place and managed by in-house and/or outsourced IT professionals. It is interesting to note that more than half of all...
Skills Shortages Are Exposing Organizations to Cyber Risk
Over half (52%) of IT and security professionals believe that cybersecurity skills shortages are putting their business at an increased risk of attack, according to a new poll from Infosecurity Europe. Now in its 24th year, Europe's leading cybersecurity show asked...
Over One Million Asus Users Backdoored in Sophisticated Cyberattack
Security experts have uncovered a sophisticated new Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attach which may have infected more than one million Asus users via a backdoored utility. Kaspersky Lab revealed that the group behind Operation ShadowHammer focused their efforts on...
Man Pleads Guilty to $3m Tech Support Scam
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 Raise Privacy Alarm Over Medicine Apps
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...
Virtualized Calls a Top Threat for ATO Attacks
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 Files Antitrust Case Against Apple
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...
Alex Kipman’s Holographic Tendencies
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
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...
Half of Global Firms Concerned Over Security Skills Gaps
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...
Aluminum Giant Norsk Hydro Suffers Major Cyber-Attack
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...
Press Release: powersolution.com Recognized for Excellence in Managed IT Services
Midland Park, NJ, February 19, 2019 – powersolution.com, a Sirius Technology company, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named to its 2019 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in Managed Security Services category. This annual list...
Denial of Service Attacks
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple sources. 2018, an average number DDoS attacks registered against targets in approximately 80 countries; Over 95% occurred in...
58% of cyber attack victims were small businesses – you could be next.
Cybercrime is a big and nasty business. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, small business (organizations with fewer than 250 employees) becomes a prevalent and profitable target: 58% of them were a cyber attack victims in the recent year, and the astounding amount...
New MacOS vulnerability can give hackers access to all of your stored passwords
A new MacOS vulnerability bug that reveals all of user's stored passwords to malicious apps was discovered by a German 18-year-old Linus Henze. He is not sharing the details with Apple at this time. The bug was verified and reported by Forbes; Apple is not commenting...
FaceTime bug poses privacy threat for individuals and businesses using the app
9to5Mac has discovered a significant bug in FaceTime app, and the news is running virally over social and major media outlets. Reportedly, when users start group FaceTime, they can immediately hear the audio coming from their phone, regardless of the other person...
Will your data be affected by Google’s GDPR flop? Europe leads the way on privacy policy enforcement.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a New Privacy Law, Makes Europe World’s "Tech Police" is a regulation in EU law (2016/679) on data protection and privacy for everyone within the EU. French data protection authority fining Google $57 Million (50 Million...
773 million records of email addresses were breached – Have you been pwned?
Today, one of the largest data breach data sets was released containing roughly 773 million unique records of email addresses and passwords. Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Troy Hunt obtained the original data set, titled ‘Collection #1’ from a hacker forum. The...
Businesses suffer brand damage, loss of productivity, and vicious costs of cyberattacks
Cyberattack cleanups now come with a sticker shock: increase of 52% now brings the estimated amount to $1.1 million, with potential to increase even further, to a staggering $1.67 million, according to a recent Radware’s 2018-2019 Global Application and Network...
Important Alert: NEW Office 365 Phishing Threat
A new phishing attack is using fake non-delivery notification in an attempt to steal users’ Microsoft Office 365 credentials. These credentials will then be used to send messages from the users account, further spreading malicious emails and software. In this case,...
10% of you are compromised by at least one of the passwords from the Top 100 List of 2018
Each year, SplashData., Inc, a leader in password management, analyses leaked passwords to find the top commonly used passwords. In 2018, SplashData, Inc. had five million passwords to work from, most of them from hacks in the US and Europe. According to the...
A New SamSam Ransomware Alert Issued
The United Staes Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have issued a new alert for a ransomware known as SamSam (MSIL/Samas.A.) - just days after two mastermind suspects were charged by US Department of Justice. The...
Common Goals and Objectives of a Information Security Risk Assessment
The Internet of Things (IoT) devices are outnumbering the population of our planet. It is projected that the planet will have 20.5 billion devices just two short years away, in 2020. In the next five years the cybercrime is expected to result in business-related...
Ransomware – Still Alive and Kicking
If not familiar, Ransomware is a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid. A computer can become infected with Ransomware in a number of ways; thorough an email, an infected link, or even an infected ad on a...
Is your organization ready to pay Cyber Attack Ransom?
While ransomware attacks have slowed down with cybercriminals shifting their focus to cryptojacking (mining virtual currencies), cyberextortion is still widespread. Here are a few examples of recent cyber extortion attacks: Systems of Onslow Water and Seer Authority...
Beware of Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Attacks: Network Traffic Hijacking
Mass hijackings of network traffic and it's abuse is not new, but with the evolution of technology, so do Man-in-the-Middle type of attacks. A man-in-the-middle attack is an exploit that occurs when an outside attacker intercepts communications between two parties,...
Businesses Should Act on the October 3, 2018 DHS Hacker Warning and Recommended Protective Measures
On October 3, 2018, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a major warning to IT service providers, IT managed services providers (MSPs), and cloud services providers (CSPs) and their customers. The warning came from the National Cybersecurity and...