Davey Winder reports: Last year, during the Pwn2Own hacking event in Austin, Texas, the Samsung Galaxy S21 was hacked, not once but twice, across a period of just 48 hours. This year, at the Pwn2Own competition in Toronto, Canada, elite hacking teams went one better: Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S22 smartphone fell to zero-day exploits twice on…
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Turkish journalist faces 12 years in prison for announcing personal data leak
Turkish Minute reports: Turkish prosecutors are seeking a prison sentence of 12 years for journalist İbrahim Haskoloğlu, who was briefly detained in April after announcing that hackers had stolen personal information from government websites, the journalist announced on social media, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported. In his tweets in April, Haskoloğlu said a group of…
NZ: Ransomware attacks: Privacy Commissioner plans investigation as Justice, Health hit
Chris Keall reports: Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster is planning an investigation after Wellington-based IT provider Mercury IT was hit by a ransomware attack – potentially compromising sensitive data it hosts for multiple clients, including health insurer Accuro, BusinessNZ, the NZ National Nurses Association and the Ministry of Justice, with 15,000 Coroners Court files taken out. The…
Rackspace’s Hosted Exchange disruption was due to a ransomware attack
Rackspace has issued another update to its recent security incident. It now discloses that this was a ransomware attack: We appreciate your patience as we continue to work through the security issues that have affected our Hosted Exchange environment. As you know, on Friday, December 2nd, 2022, we became aware of suspicious activity and immediately…
NJ: With servers still offline, Hudson County Schools of Technology goes old-school low tech
Ron Zeitlinger reports: The Hudson County Schools of Technology (HCST) took a trip back in time to the 1980s for a second straight day Tuesday. The internal computer servers at the district, which includes High Tech High School in Secaucus and County Prep and Explore Middle School in Jersey City, remained offline, leading to a…
Another class action lawsuit against Empress EMS filed over July ransomware attack
Another lawsuit has been filed in the wake of a ransomware attack on a New York ambulance service. Now we hear that the victim paid ransom. Will it make a difference? Firehouse reports: A lawsuit has been filed against Empress Ambulance in New York after hackers accessed patient information. According to the class action lawsuit…