Joel R. McConvey reports: India is bleeding biometric information, with new data breaches giving credence to a recent report by the credit rating agency Moody’s warning that Aadhaar’s centralized biometric digital ID system has privacy and security vulnerabilities. A piece in Security Affairs reports that earlier this month, the cybersecurity firm Resecurity found hundreds of millions of records containing…
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Orange County’s DA’s Office experiences data breach
Jaz Mendez reports: Hackers broke into the Orange County District Attorney’s office’s information technology system last week, the DA’s office announced Monday. The office did not specify whether any information was compromised, but said in a press release that it took “immediate action” to shut down its cybersecurity infrastructure as soon as it learned of…
University of Tokyo PC Infected with Malware in July 2022; Possible Leak of Students’ Addresses, Grades
The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: A computer at the University of Tokyo had been infected with malware, possibly leaking up to 4,341 files containing addresses and grades of students from the academic years of 2003 to 2022, the university said Tuesday. The PC belonged to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the College of Arts…
In The Age Of AI-Enabled Attacks, Should Every School Have A CISO?
Hari Ravichandran writes: … A report (download) from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that school districts lose between $50,000 and $1 million on average from cyberattacks, and recovery takes two to nine months on average. Schools are right up there with the energy, transportation and water sectors as well as hospitals as critical infrastructure…
NJ Man Hired Online to Firebomb, Shoot at Homes Gets 13 Years in Prison
Brian Krebs reports: A 22-year-old New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for participating in a firebombing and a shooting at homes in Pennsylvania last year. Patrick McGovern-Allen was the subject of a Sept. 4, 2022 story here about the emergence of “violence-as-a-service” offerings, where random people from the Internet…
Spain arrests 34 cybercriminals who stole data of 4 million people
Bill Toulas reports: The Spanish National Police have dismantled a cybercriminal organization that carried out a variety of computer scams to steal and monetize the data of over four million people. Law enforcement in the country conducted 16 targeted searches in Madrid, Malaga, Huelva, Alicante, and Murcia and arrested 34 members of the crime group….