If you have ever been on the Internet or used a computer, you have left data trails of the sites you have visited. Virtually everyone leaves behind a digital footprint and can be traced back to its user. In today’s world of evolving technology, almost every aspect of life is being connected back to the…
A new found vulnerability known as GHOST (CVE-2015-0235) affects many systems built on Linux starting with glibc-2.2 as well as Debian 7 (wheezy), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 & 7, CentOS 6 & 7 and Ubuntu 12.04, and allows attackers to remotely take control of an entire system without having any prior knowledge of system credentials. The…
You may be wondering what caused a security breach, or how it actually occurred, and also be totally unaware that you were not even targeted, but you merely fell prey to a random attack- At least, that’s what a recent report by Verizon indicates: Nearly eight out of ten cyber attacks in 2011 were committed…
Although data breaches are not typical of a certain size or type of organization, small medical practices seem to be at the highest risk of being attacked. A recent survey, conducted by the Ponemon Institute and commissioned by MegaPath, which queried more than 700 IT and administrative personnel in healthcare organizations with less than 250 employees, revealed some shocking facts. It was noted that nearly 90% of small healthcare practices in North America have suffered a data breach in the past 12 months.
