The Information Highway

The Information Highway

LA County Health Services: Patients' data exposed in phishing attack

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The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services disclosed a data breach after thousands of patients' personal and health information was exposed in a data breach resulting from a recent phishing attack impacting over two dozen employees.

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Reddit down in major outage blocking access to web, mobile apps

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Reddit is investigating a major outage blocking users worldwide from accessing the social network's websites and mobile apps.

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WP Automatic WordPress plugin hit by millions of SQL injection attacks

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Hackers have started to target a critical severity vulnerability in the WP Automatic plugin for WordPress to create user accounts with administrative privileges and to plant backdoors for long-term access.

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New Brokewell malware takes over Android devices, steals data

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Security researchers have discovered a new Android banking trojan they named Brokewell that can capture every event on the device, from touches and information displayed to text input and the applications the user launches.

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Windows 11 KB5036980 update goes live with Start Menu ads

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Microsoft has enabled Start menu ads in the optional KB5036980 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2.

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