hacking

https://www.nrk.no/urix/hacking-skandale-ryster-finland---pasienter-presset-for-penger-1.15214710

Pasientopplysninger fra et finsk psykoterapisenter er på avveie etter hacking, og flere pasienter er blitt presset for penger.

Utpresseren skal ha presset selskapets ledelse for 40 bitcoin, tilsvarende nesten 5 millioner kroner, for ikke å publisere pasientjournalene på det mørke nettet.

Utpresseren skal ha truet med å publisere 100 journaler på det mørke nettet per dag.

Kravet ble avvist, dermed begynte lekkasjene. Etter dette begynte det å dukke opp trusselmeldinger til hver enkelt pasient.

– Nå må vi ordne krisehjelp til ofrene, sier Ohisalo.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/north-korea-has-tried-to-hack-11-officials-of-the-un-security-council/

consisted of a series of spear-phishing campaigns aimed at the Gmail accounts of UN officials.

The emails were designed to look like UN security alerts or requests for interviews from reporters, both designed to convince officials to access phishing pages or run malware files on their systems.

https://www.cyberscoop.com/nagorno-karabakh-azerbaijan-armenia-espionage-talos-hackers/

shows how digital espionage often coincides with bursts of violence in modern war.

https://www.securityweek.com/german-hospital-hacked-patient-taken-another-city-dies

what appears to have been a misdirected hacker attack caused the failure of IT systems at a major hospital in Duesseldorf, and a woman who needed urgent admission died after she had to be taken to another city for treatment.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54193764

The hacker explained in a blog post published on Wednesday that he was able to find Mr Abbott’s information because his booking reference was printed on the boarding pass. He was then able to log in to Mr Abbott’s booking and search through HTML code to find his passport number and phone number. The code also included conversations with Qantas staff about Mr Abbott.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2020/07/30/eu-imposes-the-first-ever-sanctions-against-cyber-attacks/

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/cheap-chinese-smartphones-malware

Preinstalled malware on low-cost Chinese phones has stolen data and money from some of the world’s poorest people.

Current security concerns about Chinese apps and hardware have largely focused on potential back doors in Huawei’s 5G equipment. More recently, people have focused on how user data collected by TikTok could be abused by the company and the Chinese government. But an overlooked and ongoing threat is the consistent presence of malware on cheap smartphones from Chinese manufacturers and how it exacts a digital tax on people with low incomes.

https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/dataangrep-mot-sykehuset-innlandet-1.15132961

Analyser viser at det kan ha blitt hentet ut personsensitive data.

https://source.wustl.edu/2020/08/researchers-one-step-closer-to-bomb-sniffing-cyborg-locusts/

they were able to hijack a locust’s olfactory system to both detect and discriminate between different explosive scents — all within a few hundred milliseconds of exposure.

https://www.bt.no/btmeninger/leder/i/wP7BB5/datainnbrotet-ved-nhh-viser-kor-viktig-det-er-aa-halde-seg-oppdatert-paa

Norges Handelshøyskole har latt døra til internett stå ulåst

Feilen vart retta for meir enn eitt år sidan, men NHH installerte aldri oppdateringa.