Kenny Kuhn reports: Multiple Louisiana state agencies are experiencing a statewide network outage which is causing issues at their field offices across the state. The network outage has crippled state agencies including The Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Department of Children and Family Services, and the Department…
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Hacker attack Asl Abruzzo, Guarantor: downloading data is a crime
A press release (machine translated) from the Italian data protection regulator, Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali: With reference to the recent hacker attack suffered by Asl 1 Abruzzo, the Guarantor for the protection of personal data reminds that anyone who comes into possession or downloads data published on the dark web by criminal…
OH: Buckley King law firm hit by BlackBasta
Ransomware groups often promise to keep everything confidential if their victim pays them. They can’t do that if their chats are not secure and someone is able to shoulder-surf or otherwise get access to the negotiations and any files provided by the attackers as proof — or any bitcoin wallet addresses. If victims think or…
Indiana University exposes sensitive student data
Jurgita Lapienytė reports: Each year, hundreds of institutions across the US and Canada ask their first-year, transfer, and older students to participate in a survey about their prior academic and co-curricular experiences. They also ask them to share their expectations from the coming year. The survey isn’t anonymous – students are asked to enter their…
Notice relating to Ambulance Victoria privacy breach
May 17, 2023 On Thursday 11 May 2023 Ambulance Victoria (AV) was made aware that documents containing personal information of some current and prospective employees was accessible to other AV employees on the AV intranet. The documents contained the alcohol and other drug testing results of approximately 600 job applicants undertaken between May 2017 and…
North Korea and Russia, notorious for hacking, team up on cybersecurity proposal
Shreyas Reddy reports: North Korea has thrown its weight behind a Russian effort to shore up global cyber “stability and security,” Moscow announced Tuesday, forming an unlikely coalition of states better known for instigating cyberattacks than stopping them. Belarus, Syria and Nicaragua also joined the two to submit the Concept of the U.N. Convention on…