personal data

News

Issued by: SecurityWeek

Biden’s Executive Order covers personal and sensitive information such as biometric, financial, genomic, geolocation, and personal health data, as well as specific types of personally identifiable information. “Bad actors can use this data to track Americans (including military service members), pry into their personal lives, and pass that data on to other data brokers and…

Application Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

A production API in Toyota’s C360 customer relationship management (CRM) tool loaded with the personal information of an unknown number of the carmaker’s customers in Mexico was found to expose reams of sensitive data. A disclosure from threat hunter Eaton Zveare outlines how it was possible to access Toyota customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, emails,…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

A sample of 750,000 entries posted online by the hacker showed citizens’ names, mobile phone numbers, national ID numbers, addresses, birthdays and police reports they had filed. AFP and cybersecurity experts have verified some of the citizen data in the sample as authentic, but the scope of the entire database is hard to determine. Advertised…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

Wray told a Boston College cybersecurity conference that his agents learned of the planned digital attack from an unspecified intelligence partner and got Boston Children’s Hospital the information it needed last summer to block what would have been “one of the most despicable cyberattacks I’ve seen.” “And quick actions by everyone involved, especially at the…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

A security incident at Planned Parenthood’s Los Angeles (PPLA) branch compromised personal data of about 400,000 patients, officials confirmed this week. News of the breach was confirmed in letters sent to affected patients. These state suspicious activity was detected on the PPLA network on Oct. 17, 2021. Following its discovery, PPLA took its systems offline,…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

Call centers are a fraudster’s dream. Millions of pieces of personally identifiable information (PII) are transmitted from customers to service agents every day. Anyone able to infiltrate these systems — either physically or digitally — can turn around and make a small fortune selling all sorts of valuable information on the Dark Web. In fact,…

Software Security

Issued by: CIO Security

Several leading health systems got together recently to announce the formation of Truveta, an independent company that will pool patient medical records from the participating health systems and analyze them for insights to drive healthcare outcomes. The announcement highlighted the benefits of sharing de-identified data for driving research, new therapies, and improved health outcomes. In…