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DysruptionHub reports: Jacksonville, Texas, took some city systems offline after detecting suspicious network activity Friday, leaving some online services unavailable Monday as officials investigated a cybersecurity incident. The city said it detected… Continue reading Jacksonville, Texas, keeps some city systems offline after cyber incident
Trigger Warning: This post includes content from tips submitted to anonymous tiplines by or about students. While identity information is redacted, tips may include obscenities and explicit references to sexual abuse, rape, assault, self-harm, violence… Continue reading The “Anonymous” Tip System That Wasn’t: Three Months Later, Why Hasn’t Navigate360 Notified Anyone?
Carrie Tait reports: A retired lawyer is suing Alberta, its Chief Electoral Officer and two organizations that support secession for their respective roles in an alleged data breach affecting 2.9 million residents in the province. Clint Docken, a forme… Continue reading Alberta, Centurion Project sued over alleged data breach that affected millions of voters
Connor Jones reports: AdaptHealth says attackers used social engineering to breach its systems and steal sensitive patient data, including passwords associated with insurance billing. The medical equipment company disclosed the attack to the Securities… Continue reading AdaptHealth says attackers sweet-talked their way into cloud systems and stole patient data
Anthony Cuthbertson reports: Security researchers have uncovered what they believe to be the first ever instance of an artificial intelligence agent executing a cyber attack from start to finish without human assistance. The AI-powered attack marks a m… Continue reading An AI just carried out a cyber attack without any human oversight for the first time
Erwin Wong reports: Shun Hing Group has confirmed that its computer systems were compromised by hackers in March, resulting in a significant data breach affecting customers and staff. Founded in 1953 by the late Dr William Mong, Shun Hing Group has gro… Continue reading HK: Shun Hing Group data breach affects 920,000 customers, 1.05m files encrypted in cyber attack
My About page is pretty clear about legal threats: If you want to send me legal threats about my reporting or comments, knock yourself out, but don’t be surprised to see me report on your threat, any confidentiality sig blocks you may attach notwithsta… Continue reading Global Schools Holdings Cites Two Injunctions in a Bid to Chill Our Reporting. It Won’t Work.
MEE reports: New national security legislation being rushed through the UK’s parliament could criminalise British foreign correspondents and NGO workers engaging with designated state-backed groups, experts warn. The National Security (State Thre… Continue reading UK journalists and NGOs risk terrorism prosecutions under new security bill
Kaspersky Labs writes: It is used by the ToddyCat group. Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered a new attack vector and toolkit for compromising corporate Gmail accounts. Using this toolkit, attackers can access user accounts via an API, read conversati… Continue reading Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered a new attack vector and toolkit for compromising corporate Gmail accounts
From Nisos: Earlier this year, our DPRK employment fraud investigation revealed how North Korean operatives infiltrate US companies at industrial scale. In June, we released Part 2 of our research, featured on Nicole Perlroth’s “To Catch a … Continue reading The Human Element: Building A Trusted Workforce in the Age of DPRK Employment Fraud