Collaborate Disseminate
By Deeba Ahmed
WisGOP claims that scammers stole the money from the account they were using for the reelection campaign of President Donald Trump.
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A database lacking password protection exposed sensitive data of customers of Milwaukee-based mattress company Verlo Mattress. Continue reading Mattress Company Leaks Data Records of 387K Customers
Foxconn’s controversial plant in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin has faced resistance from the beginning. Now, Governor Evers is calling on the tech-manufacturing company to renegotiate. Continue reading Wisconsin Is Fighting to Renegotiate Its Foxconn Deal
Nearly 1.4 million people across the U.S. Midwest may have had their personal information exposed in a data breach at one of the region’s largest health care networks. UnityPoint Health, a network of hospitals, clinics, and home care services in Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin, said this week that multiple internal email accounts were compromised between March 14 and April 3, following a series of phishing attacks. The phishing emails were disguised to appear to have originated from a “trusted executive” within UnityPoint Health. The stolen data included patient names, addresses, dates of birth, extensive medical records including surgical information and lab results, insurance information and, in some cases, Social Security, bank account, and driver’s license numbers. According to UnityPoint Health’s press release, the attack was likely financially motivated, rather than focused on obtaining patient information, as the hackers tried to use the company’s email system to divert payroll or vendor payments. Stolen personal […]
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Nearly a year after the end of the 2016 campaign, the Department of Homeland Security on Friday night notified 21 states of attempted Russian hacking against their election systems. A small number of networks were compromised, CyberScoop has learned, but none of the targeted systems involved the tallying of votes. For the majority of the states targeted, only early-stage activity like scanning was seen. A minority of targeted states saw serious attempts to compromise networks, some of which were successful. ,Alabama, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Maryland, Virginia, Wisconsin and Washington are among the states that have acknowledged receiving a notification. The remaining states are publicly unknown. News of the targeting first came to light in June when Jeanette Manfra, acting deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity and communications at the DHS’s National Protection and Programs Directorate, testified during a hearing held by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that focused on Russian interference in the U.S. election. […]
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There were only 15 cranes left in the world. Then people stepped up. Continue reading How Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate By Following an Airplane
It’s the first request of its kind. More will come. Continue reading This US City’s Move to Divert Great Lakes Drinking Water Is Just the Beginning