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Employees Sue Home Health Provider After Phishing Breach A class action lawsuit claims that thousands of employees of a home healthcare services firm were harmed by the disclosure of their personal information in a breach earlier this year involving a business email compromise scam. Earlier, regulators fined the company for another breach. Three former employees of Clearwater, Fla.-based Lincare Holdings Inc., a provider of in-home respiratory care and medical equipment, filed the lawsuit Monday in U.S. district court. The suit alleges negligence and other charges related to a data breach resulting from a Lincare human resources worker in February 2017 falling for a phishing scam involving a fake email pretending to be from a Lincare executive that requested W-2 tax form information about company employees. The lawsuit alleges that the Lincare HR employee, "rather than confirming or authenticatingthe validity of the request, compiled the requested information and com

Teardrop Attack: What Is It And How Does It Work? Short Bytes: Teardrop assault is a sort of Denial of Service (DoS) assault which misuses the part balance field in the IP header to create carriage pieces which are then conveyed to the objective machine. Unfit to revamp the pieces, the casualty continues gathering the parts until the point that it crashes. As the name recommends, the Teardrop Attack works step by step by sending the divided bundles to an objective machine. It's a kind of a disavowal of-benefit (DoS) assault which overpowers the objective machine with the inadequate information so the casualty crashes down. In Teardrop Attack, divided parcels that are sent in the to the objective machine, are carriage in nature and the casualty's machine can't reassemble those bundles because of the bug in the TCP/IP discontinuity. Along these lines, the bundles continue getting amassed over the casualty's machine lastly because of the cradle flood, the obje

FBI to DDoS Victims: Please Come Forward Have you been the victim of a distributed denial-of-service attack? If so, the FBI wants you to please come forward. The FBI is asking anyone in the United States who's been the victim of a DDoS attack to file a report with the local FBI field office or via the website of the Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3. That's a joint partnership between the FBI, the National White Collar Crime Center and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, which was set up to receive and investigate internet-related crime complaints from U.S. victims. Alert: "The FBI requests DDoS victims contact their local FBI field office and/or file a complaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), regardless of dollar loss or timing of incident." This week's DDoS alert from the FBI focuses on the threat posed by stresser/booter services. Such services are often marketed as a way to "stress test" your own website. But law enfo

Hypernysm My computer is already protected by the Windows login password! Isn't that good enough?😕💭  Do you know??? Windows login passwords are usually quite easy to break. Intruders still can find a way to steal your sensitive data. Also it is possible to copy all the stuff whatever in your PC with a *LiveCD in the drive without even worrying about your windows password if your PC is in the hand of an intruder. *LiveCD: A live CD , live DVD, or live disc is a complete bootable computer installation including operating system which runs in a computer's memory, rather than loading from a hard disk drive; the CD itself is read-only. Now you feel like thinking more about the privacy or confidentiality of your information right?👀 There are two approaches to the challenge of securing your data. You can encrypt your files Or you can hide them Lets focus on Encrypting  your files here, This is bit like keeping your information in a locked safe.  

6 Steps to a Secure Password Here is a measurement to keep you up around evening time. As per a current report by Deloitte's Canadian Technology, Media and Telecommunications, around 90% of passwords are thought to be helpless against hacking. Security investigators all concur that our passwords are considerably more uncertain than before.  So why are programmer showing signs of improvement at breaking our passwords? One reason is a direct result of an abundance of new information that they approach. This fortune trove of information is because of enormous hacks like the one on shoe retailer Zappos which uncovered more than 24 million clients individual data, and the 2012 LinkedIn hack which saw digital culprits acquire 6.5 million client accounts. These uber hacks have help programmers to distinguish the examples that we utilize while making our passwords.  The other reason that programmers are thinking that its less demanding to get through secret word assurance is

Ransomware detection and prevention tools Ransomware is turning into a suitable business for cybercriminals and a quickly developing danger for endeavors, human services associations and end clients alike. Across the board occurrences like the WannaCry assault - where casualties must pay not simply payoff to recoup their information and frameworks, yet in addition costs identified with downtime and framework recuperation forms - mean ransomware protection ought to be a best need in each association. As indicated by the FBI, ransomware assaults were evaluated to cost casualties $1 billion of every 2016. Endpoint security supplier Carbon Black found that ransomware assaults rose half in 2016 contrasted and 2015.  While undertakings are likely as of now utilizing a few or the vast majority of the important devices that avoid malware assaults, they may have been sent years prior and not refreshed with the most recent ransomware resistance highlights. Undertakings ought to ret