Researchers at Google have identified a new Rowhammer exploit, dubbed Half-Double, which targets design flaws in some of the newer DRAM chips to alter their memory
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The Alpine Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism P.C posted a notice for patients about its EMR outage.
Two companies that serve the healthcare sector have reported disruptive cyber incidents affecting their clients, the latest in a string of similar supply chain incidents.
The most recent incidents affected San Antonio-based CaptureRx, which provides healthcare technology and administrative services to hundreds of U.S. hospitals and others, and Dallas-based MedNetworx, which provides hosted medical software, including the Aprima electronic medical records system from CompuGroup eMDs.
Many of the largest health data breaches reported to federal regulators so far this year have involved vendors, including the attack that took advantage of vulnerabilities in the Accellion File Transfer Appliance product.
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As concerns about the number of attacks targeting domain name system protocols continue to grow, the National Security Agency and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have released new guidance on how to choose and deploy a Protective Domain Name System service to strengthen security.
The domain name system protocol, or DNS, acts as a phone book for the internet, taking the domain names used every day and translating them into a numeric code that helps computers find what the user is seeking. This older protocol is vulnerable to attacks, including DNS hijacking, which involves hackers manipulating records so they can see traffic flowing to a particular website or service (see:
A power station in Tamil Nadu, India (Photo: Wikipedia)
State-sponsored groups in China appear to be targeting India’s power supply by dropping malware into systems, according to online digital threat analysis company Recorded Future.
On Monday, the Indian government issued a statement saying it took steps to mitigate risks posed by the ShadowPad backdoor malware that the hackers are using.
Although the Indian government acknowledged that various power grid systems across the country were targeted in a cyber sabotage attempt, it did not confirm whether a massive power outage in Mumbai last October was a result of a malware attack.
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