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Thousands of Electronic Patient Records Lost in Theft
Last Friday the UCLA Health System took the precautionary measure of notifying thousands of patients of the theft of their private information. Letters sent to the affected patients warned of possible identity theft and included contact information for a data security company to aid in the event of credit or identity theft. The message also ...
Duqu Exploits Microsoft Word, Security Community Responds
Microsoft is rushing towards a security update release after it was disclosed that the Duqu infection exploits a previously unknown vulnerability in its Microsoft Word office application. Security experts have been hailing Duqu as an evolution in cyber threat that bore similar code to Stuxnet. The Stuxnet outbreak turned out to be a targeted attack ...
Digital Shopping innovations with Fluid and GlobalLogic
The day and age of rich experience digital shopping is upon us. It’s a game that has been changing since e-commerce began and shows no signs of stopping or slowing down. Two companies at the forefront of this quiet revolution are GlobalLogic and Fluid, Inc. In an announcement made this week, they reveal the latest ...
Smartphone Trends Show Android Dominance
Some interesting analysis has emerged from a number of sources and they draw a shifting picture in smartphone trends. Recent news from Google regarding the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the release of their updated Ice Cream Sandwich version 4.0 Android operating system heralds what may be a momentum overdrive for the dominant platform. Android smartphones continue ...
Blackberry Outage Linked to Backup System Failure
Blackberry service issues by RIM have reportedly spread to users throughout North America. The service outages as reported here, first affected the Middle East, Europe and Africa. Going into its third day of disruption, the services were reportedly being restored at one point as reported by the company. RIM had gone so far as to ...
Major RIM Outage Takes Down Blackberry
Reports are spreading about a mass intercontinental Blackberry outage that is affecting millions across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The outage is affecting email, web, messaging, and data capabilities on its network of phones. Speculation centered in one report from The Telegraph of London that a single data server based in southern England is ...
U.S. Drone Virus Outbreak Infects Military
Wired is running a story on computer virus that has affected the United States’ fleet of Predator and Reaper drones. The infection apparently is logging keystrokes of the pilots while the drones are in flight conducting strategic missions over the country’s warzones. The infections are reportedly particularly persistent, with reports of reinfection shortly after removal ...
World Reacts to Jobs’ Passing
[Ed. note: Photo credit – Kien Tran] – AL3 Celebrities, politicians and people from all walks from life took to the internet, Facebook, Google, Twitter and all types of media in a mass reaction to Steve Jobs’ death. Among the hottest tags on Twitter – #SteveJobs #Sad #RIP, there are also reports that the Twitter ...
Microsoft’s Global Spam Hunt
We hear all the time about defense when it comes to CyberCrime, and from time to time we do hear about federal cases where crimes are prosecuted. What we rarely hear about is the type of multi-national multi-agency collaborative effort in the last year that Microsoft has put together to bring down what was at ...
Cyber Security Week
With so much going on in the world of Information Security it is difficult to encompass all that is developing so quickly in this technological landscape. It makes sense then to review the best of the week, the most significant items that have the most impact to the world of Information Security. Here are ...