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Legal experts insist the threat to healthcare providers relying more than ever on vendors for temporary help is very real.

Cybersecurity researchers note that the vulnerable database appeared to be linked to Gale Healthcare Solutions, which connects medical facilities with available caregivers.

422m medical records apparently left exposed in unsecured database

India’s Personal Data Protection Bill cannot come soon enough as a wave of cyberattacks hits the nation.

Companies and organizations are acutely aware of cybersecurity threats and the consequences if anything should happen. So, for the most part, big companies invest lots of money to upgrade systems and install electronic barriers. But one factor that these companies don’t always account for and cybercriminals count on is human error. You can have the most sophisticated system available, but if it’s misconfigured, you might as well turn it off. Pharmacy giant CVS learned this the hard wa...

Recruiter’s Cloud Snafu Exposes 20,000 CVs and ID Documents Phil Muncaster UK / EMEA News Reporter , Infosecurity Magazine Tens of thousands of jobseekers have had their personal information exposed by a misconfigured cloud account, according to researchers. A team at Website Planet discovered the AWS S3 bucket left unprotected and unsecured by FastTrack Reflex Recruitment, now TeamBMS. The firm apparently specializes in recruitment for the building management systems sector, for projects ...

Bizongo, the business-to-business platform for The company has Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, Swiggy, and Zomato among the clients using its B2B supply chain and vendor management solutions.

Over 320,000 court records that appear to come from the second most populous county in the US have been discovered sitting on a misconfigured online database. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler and a team from Website Planet claimed that the data was all from Cook County, Illinois, which is home to America’s third-largest city, Chicago. “There have been several high-profile data exposures of private companies that affected Cook County residents in the past few years including a large hospi...

Court On September 26, 2020, researchers discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch server exposing more than 323,277 Cook County court related records containing highly sensitive personal data. Cook County, Illinois, is the second most populous county in the U.S., with a population in excess of 5 million people. The records contained PII such as full names, home addresses, email addresses, and court case numbers, WebsitePlanet together with researcher Jeremiah Fowler, said.  More worryingly, they ...

Tax Relief Biz Exposed Personal Info on 100,000 Clients Phil Muncaster UK / EMEA News Reporter , Infosecurity Magazine Researchers at Website Planet told Infosecurity exclusively about the privacy snafu, which they discovered on October 13 and notified the firm about the next day. That company was Marriage Tax Refund, a Wolverhampton-based organization whose business model is to recover marriage tax allowance funds for UK clients. According to the research team...