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Norway says Chinese group APT31 is behind catastrophic 2018 government hack

Posted on June 20, 2021 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: Norway’s police secret service said this week that APT31, a cyber-espionage group operating on behalf of China, was responsible for a 2018 breach of the government’s IT network. According to the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST), the 2018 hack was as bad as it could get. “The investigation revealed that the actor…

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Woman Arrested In 2019 Case of Fraud Involving Data Breach of Florida DCF

Posted on June 20, 2021 by Dissent

There’s an update to an incident first reported in 2019. A woman who was involved in a data breach with the Florida Department of Children and Family Services in 2019 that affected 2,000 people and over $260,000 in retail theft, has been transferred to Miami-Dade County and was in court Saturday. Bertanicy Garcia, 50, a…

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50,000 security disasters waiting to happen: The problem of America’s water supplies

Posted on June 20, 2021 by Dissent

Kevin Collier reports: On Jan. 15, a hacker tried to poison a water treatment plant that served parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. It didn’t seem hard. The hacker had the username and password for a former employee’s TeamViewer account, a popular program that lets users remotely control their computers, according to a private report…

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Springfield Psychological Provides Notice of a Security Incident

Posted on June 19, 2021 by Dissent

SPRINGFIELD, Pa., June 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Springfield Psychological is providing notice of a recent incident that may affect the security of certain information relating to current, former, and prospective patients. On June 9, 2020, Springfield Psychological sent a routine marketing email to some past, current, and prospective patients advising them of services we offer. Unfortunately, the email was…

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Headaches continue for patients and staff three weeks into hospital ransomware attack

Posted on June 19, 2021 by Dissent

Meta Minton reports: Nearly three weeks after a ransomware attack was launched against computers at UF Health-The Villages Hospital and Leesburg Regional Medical Center, there seems to be no end in sight for suffering patients and staff. Read more on Villages-News.  It seems UF Health has not been particularly forthcoming about the incident. Villages-News reports:…

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State Legislatures Consider Bans on Ransomware Payments

Posted on June 19, 2021 by Dissent

Emily Poole of Alston & Bird writes: As ransomware attacks continue to dominate the news cycle, legislation has recently been introduced in several states that would place limits on certain entities’ ability to pay a ransom payment in the event of a ransomware attack. Although the proposed limits would generally apply to state agencies and…

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