InfoSec News Nuggets 10/25/2024

Millions affected in major health data breach caused by a missing password Researchers from Cybernews have reported finding a huge database containing sensitive customer information from the Mexican healthcare sector left unprotected online. The team discovered a misconfigured Kibana instance with a “tremendous volume” of information, later attributed to eCaresoft, a software company behind two cloud-based Hospital Information Systems - Cirrus and Anytime. These platforms are used by more than 65 hospitals, 110 outpatient care centers, and…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 12/23/2020

2,000 Parents Demand Major Academic Publisher Drop Proctorio Surveillance Tech On Friday, digital rights group Fight for the Future unveiled an open letter signed by 2,000 parents calling on McGraw-Hill Publishing to end its relationship with Proctorio, one of many proctoring apps that offers services that digital rights groups have called "indistinguishable from spyware.” As the pandemic has pushed schooling into virtual classrooms, a host of software vendors have stepped up to offer their latest surveillance tools. Some, like Proctorio,…
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