Author Archives: 7tunnels

A new Brookings Institution study finds that healthcare data breaches are increasing, despite growing public awareness, increased security assurances and rising government fines. The study revealed that 23 percent of all data breaches occur in healthcare and have impacted 155 … Read More

Multiple arms of the US government issued warnings this week to private companies and contractors about a prolonged cyber espionage campaign which has centered around the theft of sensitive business information, according to documents obtained by Motherboard. The hackers have … Read More

To spies, David Vincenzetti is a salesman. To tyrants, he is a savior. How the Italian mogul built a hacking empire. As the sun rose over the banks of the Seine and the medieval, half-timbered houses of Rouen, France, on … Read More

IoT devices including connected cars, medical devices, and manufacturing equipment make perfect targets for ransomware attacks, according to the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, a cybersecurity think tank. Ransomware is malware that encrypts a targets files or systems so the owners can’t … Read More

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is the new frontier for cyber attacks, a crime that costs the world up to $575 billion a year, according to a joint study by the Center for Strategic Studies and McAfee. In LAC … Read More

Tens of millions of dollars siphoned from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. A shadowy set of casinos in the Philippines. A large bank in Bangladesh with creaky technology. An unknown — and perhaps uncatchable — group of anonymous … Read More

A $12 billion mobile Internet network that the U.S. Army is using in Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa has significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities that were found in combat testing. After a review ordered by the Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer, the Army and … Read More