Collaborate Disseminate
From CISA Release Date: July 06, 2023 Alert Code: AA23-187A SUMMARY The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and the Canad… Continue reading Increased Truebot Activity Infects U.S. and Canada Based Networks
IOL reports: The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD) has been ordered to pay a R5 million fine following its failure to comply with an Enforcement Notice after contravening the Protection of Personal Information Act (Popia… Continue reading Za: Information Regulator slaps Justice, Constitutional Development Department with R5m fine
On April 18, DataBreaches reported that more details had emerged on the arrest of three men by Dutch police in January. The three were suspected of hacking and extorting victims in the Netherlands and elsewhere, obtaining and selling data online, and m… Continue reading I had been chatting with a blackhat. They had been working with a whitehat. We were both dealing with the same person.
Com Sivesind writes: SolarWinds Corporation, which suffered a major breach of its Orion software platform in December 2020, submitted a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on June 23rd, saying the enforcement staff of the SEC provided … Continue reading Wells Notice Against SolarWinds CISO Could Be First of Its Kind
Sean Lyngaas reports: At least 100,000 people could have had their data compromised by a hack of contractors at the Department of Health and Human Services, a department official said Thursday, making it the latest US government agency to be caught up … Continue reading At least 100,000 could have had data exposed after US health department was hit by global MOVEit cyberattack
File this in your “You did WHAT?!” file. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports that after a cybersecurity audit mistakenly reset everyone’s password, Oak Park and River Forest High School in Illinois did a global replace, changing all stude… Continue reading High school changes every student’s password to ‘Ch@ngeme!’
Rebecca Thomas reports: NHS details of more than a million patients have been compromised in a cyber attack, senior health chiefs have been warned. A recent ransomware attack on the University of Manchester affected an NHS patient data set which holds … Continue reading More than a million NHS patients’ details compromised after cyber attack
There’s a troubling follow-up to an alleged cyberattack reported in May. Katelyn Ogle of KFOR reports: The Oklahoma State Medical Board has filed a complaint against a local doctor who claims her clinic was the target of a cyber attack, leaving f… Continue reading ‘No credible evidence,’ Formal complaint filed against local doctor at center of alleged cyber attack
Zack Whittaker reports the update to the case of Joseph James O’Connor, a British national who was extradited to the U.S. from Spain and pleaded guilty in May: Three years after one of the most visible hacks in recent history played out in real-t… Continue reading Hacker responsible for 2020 Twitter breach sentenced to prison
Many student loan borrowers caught a huge break this week with government forgiveness of some student loan debt. But for 2.5 million student loan borrowers, the week also brought news of a breach of their contact information and Social Security numbers… Continue reading Edfinancial and OSLA student loan account registration info hacked in Nelnet breach; 2.5 million affected