Ascension Health on Dec. 19 started sending out letters to the 5.6 million patients who were affected by a ransomware attack that was originally detected last May. When news of the cybersecurity incident broke last spring there were reports that numerous hospitals in the Ascension network lost access to their electronic health records systems, certain … Read more
Ubuntu users are urged to install updates to patch flaws in the needrestart utility package that could enable local users to escalate their privileges to root without user interaction. The five vulnerabilities were discovered by the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU), which first published details about the flaws on Tuesday. The affected utility, needrestart, is … Read more
Three Opinions of Vlas AG at the Dutch Supreme Court dated 5 April 2024 but published today discuss issues of applicable law in competition follow-on cases. See also my earlier posts on Air Cargo and Palink. CJEU authority cited includes Concurrence, Nintendo, Tibor Trans, CDC, flyLAL. ECLI:NL:PHR:2024:561 is the Palink case in the Truck Cartel: … Read more
