Reading Time: ~ 4 min. In my previous blog post, Why Healthcare Organizations are Easy Targets for Cybercrime, I discussed various reasons that hospitals and healthcare organizations make desirable and lucrative targets for hackers. In this second installment, I’ll go over how criminals are attacking these organizations, the methods they use, and also what needs to be done […]
Reading Time: ~ 2 min. Bed, Bath, & Beyond Data Breach An official announcement made earlier this week acknowledged illicit access to customer data used in online accounts for Bed, Bath, & Beyond. While the breach didn’t affect payment card information, the retailer quickly began contacting affected customers and took steps to safeguard against future […]
Reading Time: ~ 2 min. BEC Scam Takes Millions from Nikkei America Officials for Nikkei are working to identify the perpetrators of a recent business email compromise (BEC) scam that took roughly $ 29 million from the company’s American subsidiary. The illicit transfer took place sometime during the end of September and, though they did […]
Visit Bromium at the Cyber Security Summit in Chicago on Tuesday, August 27 Dan Allen, VP Customer Success, is speaking on the panel, “Incident Response – What to do Before, During and After a Breach” Stop by our booth to see our solutions in action and to chat with our security experts The fourth annual […]
Reading Time: ~ 2 min. Android Apps Riddled with Adware Another 85 photo and gaming apps have been removed from the Google Play store after they were discovered to have been distributing adware to the roughly 8 million users who had downloaded the fake apps. The adware itself is rather tricky: by sitting dormant on […]