Dan Diamond and Clara Ence Morse report: The Trump administration inadvertently exposed the Social Security numbers of health care providers in a database powering a new Medicare portal, The Washington Post found. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) last year created a directory to help seniors look up which doctors and medical providers accept…
City News reports: A man wanted Canada-wide in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud and data theft of Desjardins clients was arrested in Spain, according to Quebec provincial police. The Sûreté du Québec says Juan Pablo Serrano, considered among the province’s most wanted fugitives, was arrested Nov. 6, 2025. He remains in custody in Spain. Authorities……
Dan Medeiros and Emily Scherny report: The city’s public school computers will be down for the rest of the week after a cybersecurity attack infiltrated the district’s internal system — and a solution may cost the School Department out of pocket. At a joint meeting of the School Committee and City Council on Tuesday afternoon, Superintendent Tracy…
Oracle is urging customers to apply its January 2025 Critical Patch Update (CPU) to address 318 new security vulnerabilities spanning its products and services. The most severe of the flaws is a bug in the Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Framework (CVE-2025-21556, CVSS score: 9.9) that could allow an attacker to seize control of…
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: More than a decade ago, researchers at antivirus company Kaspersky identified suspicious internet traffic of what they thought was a known government-backed group, based on similar targeting and its phishing techniques. Soon, the researchers realized they had found a much more advanced hacking operation that was targeting the Cuban government, among others….
A lot of insider threat reports this week, it seems. This one is from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Iowa: DES MOINES, Iowa – On October 15, 2025, a federal grand jury in Des Moines charged a Des Moines man with computer fraud. The Indictment alleges that Ezekiel Dean Potter, 34, after being……
Cole Waterman reports: Two Florida men allegedly spent a September day burglarizing ATMs in four Michigan counties, making off with more than $100,000. The next month, police found them in a Minnesota hotel amid stacks of cash. The duo is now facing federal charges for allegedly engaging in a lucrative, tech-savvy scam known as “ATM…
