Data Hijacker Holds Patient Data Hostage
A critical access hospital in southern Illinois was targeted by holding PHI data hostage. The attacker was an unknown party with access to protected health information. This attacker also threatened to release more data unless a “substantial” ransom payment was made. The 22-bed hospital in Flora, Ill., notified its clinic patients that back on Nov. 2 there […]
Continue Reading...SSLv3 Poodle Security Breach
SSLv3 POODLE Security Vulnerability Breaks SSLv3 Secure Browsing When you access high profile sites and services such as your bank, Twitter or Google you typically access sites using https:// or a feature called SSL (secure sockets layer) but a new security defect could break that open. SSL or TLS (Transport Layer Security) provides encryption to protect […]
Continue Reading...Caution: If You’re Considering Office 365 Read Beyond the Fine Print
Office 365 is working great in Don’s shop, but there are issues you need to be aware of. He shares what he’s found out (so far). As more and more people switch to Microsoft Office 365 Software as a Service, program bugs will obviously present themselves. The original writer of this blog uses Office 365, and […]
Continue Reading...40 Apple iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6 tips and tricks
The Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus arrived with a splash and a huge initial sales success, but since they are such a huge upgrade over the smaller, 4-inch iPhone 5s, there is a ton of new features and little things that you can do to tweak the iOS 8 experience on Apple’s […]
Continue Reading...Shellshock is a new security threat worse than Heartbleed
The Health Information Trust Alliance has issued warnings about Shellshock, a system vulnerability it says could cause much more damage than the infamous Heartbleed bug. The HITRUST Cyber Threat Intelligence and Incident Coordination Center, known as the C3, announced this past week it has been tracking the remote code execution vulnerability, which it says can […]
Continue Reading...Warning: Breach of Patient Identification Information
On August 18, 2014 the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, US-CERT, issued an alert that there there was a breach of patient identification information. US-CERT is aware of a breach of sensitive patient identification information affecting approximately 4.5 million patients and customers of Community Health Systems, Inc. As part of DHS, US-CERT is working together […]
Continue Reading...Warning: New Point of Sale Malware Attack
On August 18, 2014 the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, NCCIC, and United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, US-CERT, issued an alert that there is a new POS, Point of Sale Malware Attack. This advisory was prepared in collaboration with the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), United States Secret Service (USSS), Financial Sector Information […]
Continue Reading...Researchers create unlock key to reverse CryptoLocker Virus
Before now Cryptolocker victims had to pay a hefty fee to get the keys to reverse the Cryptolocker Virus. All 500,000 victims of Cryptolocker can now recover files encrypted by the malware without paying a ransom. The malicious program encrypted files on Windows computers and demanded a substantial fee before handing over the key to […]
Continue Reading...Russian Gang Stole 1.2 billion Internet Passwords
Security researchers say a Russian crime ring has pulled off the largest known theft of confidential Internet information, including 1.2 billion username and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses. The cyber gang injected malicious code to steal databases from at least 420,000 websites, says Alex Holden, founder and chief information security […]
Continue Reading...Annual Shop and Dine Lake Forest 2014
Lake Forest Kicked-Off the Annual Shop and Dine Event Sunday, September 7th Orange County Computer® has proudly served the Lake Forest Community and local businesses since 1998. We are excited to participate and support this event by offering valuable discounts! Great food and discount promotions are available from Businesses Citywide! The coupon books are currently being mailed […]
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