The Huntsville City Schools district in Alabama hasn’t fully recovered from a ransomware attack that disrupted its IT network on November 30. After confirming the attack on school districts’ servers, officials shut down schools and campuses, announcing...
E-mail-based attacks mimicking well-known financial institutions and online payment services have surged over the Halloween and Black Friday season, as cybercriminals continue to leverage restrictions brought on by the pandemic. Although coronavirus-related email...
Less than two weeks after an attack on Baltimore County Public Schools, one of the city’s major medical centers has been struck by the same type of malware – ransomware. Officials at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center said phone lines of some of GBMC’s doctors...
A healthcare provider based in the US state of Ohio has released a statement saying it fired an employee for snooping in on patients’ records, showing transparency amid unfavorable news. Credit card information was not accessed, the practice says. Mercy Health, a...
Winter holidays are all about fun, family and, if we’re lucky, several inches of snow. After one of the most tumultuous years in recent history, in the shadow of a pandemic of biblical proportions, we’d say it’s about time we took a deep breath and a sip of eggnog. We...
