Kirsti Knolle reports: Austrian construction company Porr detected a cyber attack on its communication infrastructure on Thursday and its telephone lines and emails were disrupted, the company said. The disruption was caused by a virus, which has been identified, a company spokeswoman said. Read more on Reuters.
Month: May 2019
NY: North Country newspaper group faces Ryuk attack, but is it second attack or just more of the first?
Alec Johnson reports: The cyber attack that began at the Watertown Daily Times on Saturday reared its head again Thursday, but staff rallied to work without hard-wired internet to get the papers out. The cyber attack crippled the data infrastructure of Johnson Newspaper Corp., which publishes newspapers in Ogdensburg, Massena, Carthage, Malone, Oswego, Hudson, Catskill…
Hackers steal card data from 201 online campus stores from Canada and the US
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A group of hackers has planted malicious JavaScript code that steals payment card details inside the e-commerce system used by colleges and universities in Canada and the US. The malicious code was found on 201 online stores that were catering to 176 colleges and universities in the US and 21 in Canada,…
Finder of patient details accused by HSE of data breach
From the no-good-deed-shall-go-unpunished-until-we-find-where-we-misplaced-our-common-sense dept., Catherine Shanahan reports: A man who found sensitive patient data on a city centre street and who highlighted his concerns in the media has been accused by the HSE of a data breach. Luke Field, who found data containing patient names and details of surgical procedures on the pavement of South…
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April 10, 2022: A post that originally appeared at this URL has now been removed. The post, an excerpt from a mainstream news report, had described a felony charge against a named individual. The individual was acquitted on the felony charge that had made this story newsworthy. Given the other details in the news report,…
A hacker is wiping Git repositories and asking for a ransom
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hundreds of developers have had had Git source code repositories wiped and replaced with a ransom demand. The attacks started earlier today, appear to be coordinated across Git hosting services (GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab), and it is still unclear how they are happening. What it is known is that the hacker removes all…