Howard Monroe reports on what sounds like yet another hack involving Naviance. We first read about a Naviance hack by a student last week involving the Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. Now it’s the Downingtown Area School District in Read more…
Kristen Rary reports: Earlier this week it was confirmed Jasper County had a cyber attack on their countywide systems, including email and emergency response systems. At that time, county officials said 911 and emergency dispatch services were not having any Read more…
Jeff Stone reports: Investigators probing the Capital One data breach say they have between 20 and 30 terabytes of data in their possession as they prepare for trial against the alleged hacker, Paige Thompson, according to court documents obtained by Read more…
1NewsNow reports: The Commerce Commission has obtained a Court order to help protect the confidentiality of sensitive information stored on a computer stolen from one of its external providers. Police are investigating the theft after the Commission was informed last Read more…
Josh Breiner, Bar Peleg and Liza Rozovsky report: The U.S. Secret Service did not find any links between Russian hacker Aleksey Burkov and Russian intelligence, or any other government officials, the special agent who led the investigation, Erik Rasmussen, told Read more…
The NYS Comptroller’s Office released a number of IT audit reports for k-12 public school districts this month. Their findings will come as no surprise to regular readers of this site. Belleville-Henderson Central School District: You can read the complete Read more…
Brad Shear forwarded a notice he received yesterday concerning a breach impacting students of the Montgomery County Public School District. The cover email, from Luana Zimmerman of college career service Naviance began: Due to a recent data security incident in Read more…
Catalin Cimpanu reports that M6, one of France’s biggest TV channels, was hit by ransomware: The M6 Group, France’s largest privately-owned multimedia group, was the victim of ransomware over the weekend, but none of the company’s TV and radio channels Read more…
We spent a good amount of time in the cybersecurity forum today talking about the Equifax breach. Here’s a summary of some of their key failures, reported by Josh Fruhlinger and based on A U.S. General Accounting Office’s report, and Read more…
Azril Annuar reports: The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has terminated the services of a firm hired back in 2017 to protect the personal data of mobile phone users. Thus comes after the personal data of the users, including Read more…