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Johnson & Johnson discloses IBM data breach impacting patients

Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems ("Janssen") has informed its CarePath customers that their sensitive information has been compromised in a third-party data breach involving IBM.
- Bill Toulas
- September 07, 2023
- 11:02 AM
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Colorado warns 4 million of data stolen in IBM MOVEit breach

The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) is alerting more than four million individuals of a data breach that impacted their personal and health information.
- Bill Toulas
- August 14, 2023
- 08:42 AM
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Missouri warns that health info was stolen in IBM MOVEit data breach

Missouri's Department of Social Services warns that protected Medicaid healthcare information was exposed in a data breach after IBM suffered a MOVEit data theft attack.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 09, 2023
- 03:50 PM
- 0
IceFire ransomware now encrypts both Linux and Windows systems

Threat actors linked to the IceFire ransomware operation are now actively targeting Linux systems worldwide with a new dedicated encryptor.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 09, 2023
- 09:00 AM
- 2
Microsoft and Google to invest billions to bolster US cybersecurity

Executives and leaders from big tech, education, the finance sector, and infrastructure have committed to bolstering US interests' security during yesterday's White House cybersecurity summit.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 26, 2021
- 11:27 AM
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Memory leak in IBM DB2 gives access to sensitive data, causes DoS

A memory leak vulnerability in IBM Db2 relational database could allow an attacker to gain access to sensitive data or cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition in the database.
- Ionut Ilascu
- August 20, 2020
- 08:11 AM
- 0
New phishing campaign abuses a trio of enterprise cloud services

A new phishing campaign uses a trio of enterprise cloud services, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dynamics, and IBM Cloud, as part of an attempt to steal your login credentials.
- Ax Sharma
- July 18, 2020
- 10:11 AM
- 0
IBM Cloud global outage caused by "incorrect" BGP routing

On June 9th, 2020, IBM Cloud data centers suffered a global outage that caused connectivity issues for many of the web sites and platforms utilizing the service, including BleepingComputer.
- Ax Sharma
- June 11, 2020
- 11:19 AM
- 0
Researcher discloses four IBM zero-days after refusal to fix

Four zero-day vulnerabilities found in an IBM enterprise security software were disclosed today by a security researcher after IBM refused to fix them and to accept the vulnerability report sent via CERT/CC.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 21, 2020
- 01:31 PM
- 1
IBM Bans the Use of Removable Drives to Transfer Data

IBM has allegedly issued a worldwide ban against the the use of removable drives, including Flash, USB, and SD cards, to transfer data. This new policy is being instituted to prevent confidential and sensitive information from being leaked due to misplaced or unsecured storage devices.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 10, 2018
- 02:11 PM
- 5
IBM Reveals a Computer the Size of a Grain of Salt

Today, IBM will be showing off the world's smallest computer at its Think 2018 conference. This computer is the size of a grain of salt, contains a million transistors, and only costs .10 to manufacture.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 19, 2018
- 02:05 PM
- 1
Attackers Take Over WordPress, Joomla, JBoss Servers to Mine Monero

Attacks aimed at delivering cryptocurrency mining tools on enterprise networks have gone up as much as six times, according to telemetry data collected by IBM's X-Force team between January and August 2017.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- September 21, 2017
- 12:30 AM
- 1
Former IBM Engineer Admits He Stole Source Code for China

Xu Jiaqiang, 30, a former software engineer for IBM, pleaded guilty on Friday to charges of economic espionage after the FBI had caught him attempting to sell IBM's source code, and later discovered he sold it to parties in China.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- May 22, 2017
- 05:25 AM
- 2
IBM Warns Customers That Some of Its USB Flash Drives May Contain Malware

IBM has issued a security alert last week, warning customers that some USB flash drives shipped with IBM Storwize products may contain malicious code.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- May 02, 2017
- 04:10 AM
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