A ransomware outbreak has besieged a Wisconsin based IT company that provides cloud data hosting, security and access management to more than 100 nursing homes across the United States. The ongoing attack is preventing these care centers from accessing crucial patient medical records, and the IT company's owner says she fears this incident could soon lead not only to the closure of her business, but also to the untimely demise of some patients.

Hackers turn to old-school mail-forwarding scams to commit modern-day ID theft and financial crimes.

DNS, rogue employees and phishing/social engineering should be top of the list of threat areas for organizations to address.

Some of the bugs allow remote code-execution.

The funds would cover some of the money Target paid to reimburse financial institutions for credit card replacement after the 2013 breach.

Security consultant Joel Noguera describes how he got involved in testing anti-cheat software security, and what to expect from his upcoming Black Hat Europe talk.

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Remember, in the usual scenario, cybercriminals use skimmers to steam card data from ATM and gas stations.

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Although the data was legitimately scraped by legally operating firms, the security and privacy implications are numerous.

The debut of open source vulnerability scanner has not been met with the fanfare Cloudflare would have liked

Ransomware attack hits French hospital; Apple exec sparks browser engine bun fight; and David Schwimmer to star in cybersecurity sitcom