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Healthcare Providers – Are You Prepared for Hackers to Tell Your Patients About Your Ransomware and Data Breach?

If you are a healthcare provider, you need to prepare yourself now for the new reality that, when hackers get into your network, they will contact your patients to put pressure on you to pay their ransom demands — usually after they have encrypted your network. Here is an example from a recent case that…

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Cybersecurity and #IoT – Hackers Steal Over 100 Cars With a Laptop

We have been talking about hacking cars on this blog since 2011 (see posts) so the idea of thieves stealing a car by hacking their way into its computer system is no big surprise. This is the reality of cybersecurity in the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), and cars are just one more…

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Former Cardinals exec sentenced to prison for hacking Astros

HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge sentenced the former scouting director of the St. Louis Cardinals to nearly four years in prison Monday for hacking the Houston Astros’ player personnel database and email system in an unusual case of high-tech cheating involving two Major League Baseball clubs. Source: Former Cardinals exec sentenced to prison for…

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Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! Hackers could control your car by attacking safety features

“You’re getting cars that are connected to the internet 24 hours a day. If cybercriminals targeted automobiles like they’re targeting other things we’d be in for a hard and fast ride.” Glad to see the seriousness of this threat is catching on as we have been talking about this for years – check out some of…

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Automakers show more concern for hackers’ efforts to exploit vulnerabilities in car computer systems

Automakers seem to be taking the car hacking issue a lot more seriously. They should be. Over the last few years I have written quite a bit about car hacking and what laws may apply to such cases — such as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Here is a post that references several of those…

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A Hacker Can Takeover A Car Through Its Computer System — What About An Airplane?

Hackers can take over cars by hacking into their on board computer systems. Does it not stand to reason that they could do the same thing to an airplane? Maybe, maybe not, but a recent ruling by the FAA shows this was a concern for Boeing Model 777-200. May 18, 2015 Update: This post was…

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Hackers continue to exploit vulnerabilities in car computer systems

A couple of years ago I blogged about (what was then) the hypothetical question of whether hacking a car would violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Since that time we have seen the idea of hacking a car become a reality.  I have written updated blog posts in shared a video showing how hackers…

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Car Hacking Is Very Real and Can Be Very Deadly — Watch This Video Of How To Do It

It is really quite simple: Modern cars are controlled by computers — everything, from the accelerator to the brakes to the steering to the windows to the locks — take over the computer, you take complete control over the car. The idea of hacking a car is no longer fantasy. It is real. It can…

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Can hacking and stealing a CAR violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?

Ford wants its cars connected to the Internet. By now we all know from my previous post on United States v. Kramer that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act applies to anything with a microchip or data processor that is connected to the Internet. So, the question I have is, if someone steals one of these…

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