Detroit hospital network says data breach affected more than 100,000 patient accounts
A Detroit-area health care organization is alerting patients that their information may have been compromised in a recent data breach. Beaumont Health, a network of eight hospitals through the Detroit area, said in a letter Friday that "an unauthorized third party" accessed names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and medical conditions about some 112,000 people. Hackers also accessed bank account data and driver's license numbers about some of those affected, the Detroit Free Press first reported. READ MORE...
267 million Facebook profiles sold for $600 on the dark web
Threat actors are selling over 267 million Facebook profiles for £500 ($623) on dark web sites and hacker forums. While none of these records include passwords, they do contain information that could allow attackers to perform spear phishing or SMS attacks to steal credentials. Last month, security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an open Elasticsearch database that contained a little over 267 million Facebook records, with most being users from the United States. READ MORE...
Mootbot Botnet Targets Fiber Routers with Dual Zero-Days
The Mootbot botnet has been using a pair of zero-day exploits to compromise multiple types of fiber routers. According to researchers, other botnets have attempted to do the same, but have so far failed. According to researchers at NetLab 360, the operators of the Mootbot botnet in late February started to exploit a zero-day bug found in nine different types of fiber routers used to provide internet access and Wi-Fi to homes and businesses. READ MORE...
Foxit PDF Reader, PhantomPDF Open to Remote Code Execution
Foxit Software has released patches for dozens of high-severity flaws impacting its PDF reader and editor platforms. The most severe of the bugs, which exist on Windows versions of the software, enable a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. Overall, Foxit Software patched flaws tied to 20 CVEs in Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF (versions 9.7.1.29511 and earlier) for Windows READ MORE...
- ...in 1895, inventor Woodville Latham demonstrates the first motion picture projection technology, dubbed the "Eidoloscope", in New York City.
- ...in 1918, German fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen, also known as the Red Baron, is killed by Allied fire near Amiens, France.
- ...in 1934, the infamous "surgeon's photograph" of the Loch Ness Monster is printed in the Daily Mail. It was later proven to be a hoax.
- ...in 1992, astronomers Aleksandr Wolszczan and Dale Frail announce their discovery of the first known extrasolar planets, orbiting a pulsar 2300 light years from our Sun.
