Southwest Louisiana healthcare provider Lake Charles Memorial Health System (LCMHS) is informing roughly 270,000 patients that their personal and medical information was compromised in a data breach.
Netwrix Acquires Remediant for PAM Technology
Data security software vendor Netwrix has acquired Remediant, an early-stage startup working on technology in the PAM (privileged access management) category.
Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
EarSpy: Spying on Phone Calls via Ear Speaker Vibrations Captured by Accelerometer
As smartphone manufacturers are improving the ear speakers in their devices, it can become easier for malicious actors to leverage a particular side-channel for eavesdropping on a targeted user’s conversations, according to a team of researchers from several universities in the United States.
North Korean Hackers Created 70 Fake Bank, Venture Capital Firm Domains
North Korea’s BlueNoroff hackers have updated their arsenal and delivery techniques in a new wave of attacks targeting banks and venture capital firms, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky reports.
Data of 400 Million Twitter Users for Sale as Irish Privacy Watchdog Announces Probe
An individual is offering to sell the data of more than 400 million Twitter users, just as Ireland’s data protection watchdog has announced an investigation into the recent data leaks impacting the social media giant.
Critical Vulnerability in Premium Gift Cards WordPress Plugin Exploited in Attacks
Defiant’s Wordfence team warns of a critical-severity vulnerability in the YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards premium WordPress plugin being exploited in attacks.
Microsoft Patches Azure Cross-Tenant Data Access Flaw
Microsoft has silently fixed an important-severity security flaw in its Azure Container Service (ACS) after an external researcher warned that a buggy feature allowed cross-tenant network bypass attacks.
Facebook Agrees to Pay $725 Million to Settle Privacy Suit
Facebook parent Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running lawsuit that accused the social network of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users’ private data.
The amount was disclosed in a court filing late on Thursday.
BetMGM Confirms Breach as Hackers Offer to Sell Data of 1.5 Million Customers
MGM Resorts-owned online sports betting company BetMGM confirmed suffering a data breach the same day hackers offered to sell a database containing the information of 1.5 million BetMGM customers.
In a statement posted on its website on December 21, BetMGM said “patron records were obtained in an unauthorized manner”.
China’s ByteDance Admits Using TikTok Data to Track Journalists
Employees of Chinese tech giant ByteDance improperly accessed data from social media platform TikTok to track journalists in a bid to identify the source of leaks to the media, the company admitted Friday.












