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FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent, Credible Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals

Krebs on Security

Department of Homeland Security hastily assembled a conference call with healthcare industry executives warning about an “imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. ” The agencies on the conference call, which included the U.S. based Sky Lakes Medical Center’s computer systems. hospitals and healthcare providers.”

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Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting Security Vulnerability

Krebs on Security

In a press conference this morning, Missouri Gov. But in a press conference Thursday morning , Gov. “A hacker is someone who subverts computer security with malicious or criminal intent,” the attorney Joe Martineau said. ” Missouri Gov. Thankfully, these failures were discovered.” ” Mackey said Gov.

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MY TAKE: ‘Digital trust’ has a huge role to play mitigating cybersecurity threats, going forward

The Last Watchdog

Related: Leveraging PKI to advance electronic signatures. It used to be that trusting the connection between a workstation and a mainframe computer was the main concern. The security experts and thought leaders at DigiCert’s conference discussed the progress being made on a couple of other fronts: protocols and policies.

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Mitsubishi Electric discloses data breach, media blame China-linked APT

Security Affairs

Mitsubishi Electric had also already notified members of the Japanese government and Ministry of Defense. This morning, at a press conference, Yoshii Kan, a secretary-general of Japan, said that the company had reported the intrusion. ” reported the Asahi Shimbun. ” reported the Asahi Shimbun. ” reported the Nikkei.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for.

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Supply Chain Security 101: An Expert’s View

Krebs on Security

Earlier this month I spoke at a cybersecurity conference in Albany, N.Y. Tony Sager (TS): The federal government has been worrying about this kind of problem for decades. But even then there were people who saw where this was all going, and there were some pretty big government programs to look into it.

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Four Times Self-Collection Went Wrong

eDiscovery Daily

M1 1500 Group is a well-known age discrimination case in which two of the defendant’s employees collected ESI without any counsel supervision. Judge Matthewman granted the defendants a second chance but required both parties to collaborate in a robust meet and confer. Self-Collection Cases and Sanctions. Nat’l Day Laborer Org.