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Cybersecurity and Dental Services

The Dental Center of Northwest Ohio provides dental services and is based in Toledo, OH. In order to focus on dentistry, the practice contracted with Arakyta to manage their IT services. Breach The Dental Center of Northwest Ohio’s vendor experienced a breach. Arakyta was breached on September 1, 2018. Arakyta contracted with a third party to investigate the issue. They found that an unauthorized person had accessed their server. They may have viewed and copied their patient

Cybersecurity and IT Firms

There are IT firms across the globe on every continent. Even on Antarctica there is an IT function for their networks and other technical equipment. Brazil is no different. Tivit is a Brazilian IT services provider. In addition to this line of business, they also provide other business processes. Attack Any attack generally is focused on the target’s data or money. This instance was no different. The attack focused on the Tivit client’s data. There were nine Tivit employees w

Cybersecurity and Small Town Attacks

Throughout the nation, every municipality has some form of government. This may be minor with only a handful of people working, such as with a small town, or hundreds with the large cities. Within this range, any municipality has IT. This may be a few desktop computers or a massive network. This is the same in other countries. Australia is not an exception. A recent breach occurred in Australia. The attack and subsequent breach was directed at the Victorian government employe

Cybersecurity and Online Gaming

Fortnite is an excessively popular video game manufactured by Epic Games. This is played online with other players. There are more than 80M users across the world. In this game, as with many others, the goal is to stay alive and survive. Issue While the game is widely played, there should have been a thorough security testing for this. It appears this was not the case, as a security flaw provided a vulnerability for the Fortnite users. This allowed the users to be recorded du

Cybersecurity, Backup Services and Ransomware

PerCSoft is a Wisconsin business. The organization provides online data backup services for dental offices. This operates by placing data in the cloud. They had hundreds of dental offices as clients. The focus was to secure the patient medical records and other data from the various attacks, including ransomware. Irony The irony of this pwnage has not fallen on deaf ears. In this industry, it’s not often the irony though has this much depth. The firm’s function was to secure

Cybersecurity, PLCs and DoS

Mitsubishi Electric (ME) manufactures various products through their lines. One of these is the programmable logic controller (PLC). PLCs are not singularly used in one industry or another. These have many uses across many industries. The units are used across the world, in Mitsubishi Electric’s case, in manufacturing facilities. PLC Targeted ME has several different PLC models manufactured and actively used. Of the many PLCs manufactured, the subject model is MELSEC-Q series

Cybersecurity and Student Loans

Usually, the blogs detail a successful, in-depth attack. When possible, the attack vector is disclosed. There aren’t a tremendous number of success stories for various reasons. Seemingly most of the successful attacks use the same two or three attack vectors. These work most of the time for the attackers. Recently, an organization allowed a set of articles to elaborate on their trials and tribulations in the cyberland we call home. Having a company come forward to share their

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