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A handbag belonging to the homeland #security secy #KristiNoem containing her passport, dept security badge & $3,000 in cash was stolen on Sunday night at a restaurant in Washington. [zero irony]

Noem confirmed the theft at the White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday morning.

DHS did not give specifics, but said it could confirm the details of a CNN article, which said that Noem’s bag also contained her driver’s license, medication, apartment keys & blank checks.

#law
nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/poli

A handbag belonging to Kristi Noem, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, was stolen at a Washington restaurant on Easter.
The New York Times · Kristi Noem’s Bag, With Security Badge and $3,000, Is StolenBy Victor Mather

There is quite a bit of buzz related to CVE-2025-24054 which covers attackers causing victims to leak NTLM hashes if they open certain files or view certain directories. In short, this forces victims running Windows to make a connection to an attacker controlled SMB share.

If you prevent SMB traffic from leaving your networks then you don't have to worry about this unless the attacker has already setup shop in your network. Like, patch anyway but, IMO, it would be a better use of your time to ensure that outbound SMB is blocked first. Don't forget to account for mobile devices that are off-network.

Encryption is a cornerstone of security on the modern internet. In this video we dive into how it works and explain why it's so important.

This is especially crucial as many governments around the world are pushing to ban encryption and breach our fundamental right to privacy.

privacyguides.org/videos/2025/

DATE: April 21, 2025 at 11:32AM
SOURCE: HIPAA JOURNAL

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Email Accounts Breached at San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living & Altior Healthcare t.co/BZKXU74T97 #healthcare #databreach

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t.co/BZKXU74T97

Articles can be found by scrolling down the page at hipaajournal.com/ .

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Private, vetted email list for mental health professionals: clinicians-exchange.org

Most healthcare security and privacy posts related to IT or infosec are at @rsstosecurity

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DATE: April 21, 2025 at 11:32AM
SOURCE: HIPAA JOURNAL

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Email Accounts Breached at San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living & Altior Healthcare t.co/BZKXU74T97 #healthcare #databreach

Articles can be found by scrolling down the page at hipaajournal.com/ .

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Private, vetted email list for mental health professionals: clinicians-exchange.org

Most healthcare security and privacy posts related to IT or infosec are at @rsstosecurity

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DATE: April 21, 2025 at 11:27AM
SOURCE: HIPAA JOURNAL

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Healthcare Organizations Struggling to Shift from Reactive to Proactive Cybersecurity t.co/qqKziZQSrk

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t.co/qqKziZQSrk

Articles can be found by scrolling down the page at hipaajournal.com/ .

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Private, vetted email list for mental health professionals: clinicians-exchange.org

Most healthcare security and privacy posts related to IT or infosec are at @rsstosecurity

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DATE: April 21, 2025 at 11:27AM
SOURCE: HIPAA JOURNAL

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Healthcare Organizations Struggling to Shift from Reactive to Proactive Cybersecurity t.co/qqKziZQSrk

Articles can be found by scrolling down the page at hipaajournal.com/ .

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Private, vetted email list for mental health professionals: clinicians-exchange.org

Most healthcare security and privacy posts related to IT or infosec are at @rsstosecurity

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During that audit, inspectors found that sensitive info appeared to have been “improperly” shared across the #GSA…. Inspectors reported the issue Tues to the agency’s incident response team…that handles #security breaches.

By Thurs, the IT team had identified the owners of the files & reversed the file-share….

The GSA IT team repeatedly attempted to contact the owner of the files but never received a response, the records show. The IT team’s investigation…continues.