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Federal Tally Reaches 5,000 Health Data Breaches Since 2009

Data Breach Today

More People Affected by Breaches Than Total US Population The federal tally of health data breaches reached a new milestone this week: Since its inception in September 2009, more than 5,000 major incidents have been posted to the Department of Health and Human Services' HIPAA breach "wall of shame."

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Microsoft Patches 12-Year-Old Vulnerability

Data Breach Today

Flaw Was Present in Microsoft Defender Since 2009, SentinelOne Finds Microsoft has patched a 12-year-old vulnerability in Microsoft Defender that, if exploited, could enable nonadministrative users to escalate privilege in the application. The patch was made after security firm SentinelOne recently notified Microsoft about the flaw.

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Millions of Dell Devices Vulnerable to Update Driver Flaw

Data Breach Today

Dell Has Patched Driver Issue Found by SentinelOne Dell has patched five issues in a firmware update driver that has shipped in millions of laptops, tablets and desktops since 2009. The vulnerabilities apparently have not been exploited in the wild and are not remotely exploitable.

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Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information

Data Breach Today

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights provided a report to Congress on health information breaches from September 2009 through 2010, as required under the HITECH Act. million Americans were affected by almost 30,800 health information breaches, according to the report.

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Top Zeus Botnet Suspect “Tank” Arrested in Geneva

Krebs on Security

Gary Warner , director of research in computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, noted in his blog from 2014 that Tank told co-conspirators in a JabberZeus chat on July 22, 2009 that his daughter, Miloslava , had been born and gave her birth weight. tank: Levak was written there. lucky12345: It’s f *d.

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End of Mainstream Support for Dynamics AX 2009 and AX 2012

Ascent Innovations

End of Mainstream Support for Dynamics AX 2009 and AX 2012. Microsoft is ending the mainstream support for Dynamics AX 2009, AX 2012 FP and R2 on October 9th, 2018. Dynamics AX 2009. –. Extended Support will expire as well, and the end dates are: Dynamics AX 2009. –. What are the end dates? Dynamics AX 2012. –.

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Ransomware Patch or Perish: Attackers Exploit ColdFusion

Data Breach Today

Cring Ransomware Unleashed After Attackers Exploit Unpatched Flaw From 2009 For combating ransomware, doing the security basics is essential, including keeping systems updated and patched.