Phee Waterfield and Timothy Revell report: Data from millions of Facebook users who used a popular personality app, including their answers to intimate questionnaires, was left exposed online for anyone to access, a New Scientist investigation has found. Academics at the University of Cambridge distributed the data from the personality quiz app myPersonality to hundreds of researchers…
Month: May 2018
Police Dept Loses 10 Months of Work to Ransomware. Gets Infected a Second Time!
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Ransomware has infected the servers of the Riverside Fire and Police department for the second time in a month. The first ransomware infection took place on April 23, last month and encrypted ten months worth of work data related to active investigations. Officials said they didn’t pay the ransom and were able…
Irish Data Protection Commissioner investigating cyber attack that claimed player details from World Rugby
Gavin Mairs reports: World Rugby has been forced to suspend one of its websites after the governing body was the target of a cyber attack that saw hackers obtain personal data from thousands of subscribers to one of their databases, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. It is understood that the hackers were able to access…
U.S. Education Department employee who infected his government computer with malware from searching for child porn was allowed to retire with no prosecution
Wills Robinson reports: A Department of Education employee left government computers vulnerable to hacking after downloading a virus while searching for ‘naked toddlers’, ‘little boys’, a and references to child rape, a report has revealed. Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by DailyMail.com show the staffer typed in at least 18 illicit…
Mississippi State Ed Dept. says contractor failed to provide test results on time
Questar Assessment, who has been named in about half a dozen posts on this site in 2018 already, makes the news again, it seems. Now Kayleigh Skinner reports: The Mississippi Department of Education says local school districts are receiving student tests scores later than expected because the testing vendor didn’t submit them on time. On…
Ohio man charged in August, 2017 DDoS attacks on akronohio.gov and akroncops.org
Eric Heisig reports: An Akron man aligned with the online hacking collective Anonymous was arrested Thursday for launching cyberattacks on websites for the city of Akron and its police department, according to the FBI. James Robinson, 32, admitted he was responsible for the attacks on the Akron websites akronohio.gov and akroncops.org between Aug. 1 and Aug. 5,…