Nick Farrell reports: Mega-UK insurer Lloyd’s of London fixed a possible cyberattack by turning off its network and turning it on again. Lloyd’s detected unusual activity on its network and it was investigating the issue. While it did, it reset the Lloyd’s network and systems and blocked external connectivity has been turned off, including Lloyd’s delegated…
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Cyberattack on Colorado state website follows Russian hacktivist threat
Kevin Collier reports: Colorado state officials said the government’s website was taken offline Wednesday, the result of an apparent cyberattack that came shortly after a known Russia-based hacker group posted on Telegram that it would be targeting U.S. state websites. Colorado’s website was rendered inaccessible for much of the day Wednesday, and its portal page…
Ro says it ‘inadvertently’ exposed employees’ personal information
Zack Whittaker and Natasha Mascarenhas report: Healthcare unicorn Ro is notifying employees of a data exposure involving their personal information after a security contractor “inadvertently” uploaded a spreadsheet of employee data to the internet. In a data breach notice obtained by TechCrunch from an affected employee who received the notice this week, Ro said it…
MO: Grain Valley School District investigates cyberattack
Heidi Schmidt and Jonathan Katz report: The Grain Valley School District confirms it is investigating a cyberattack. “Basically what first went down was the printers,” student Nathan Rathmann said Wednesday about how his last three days have changed in school. “Then throughout the day, we had buggy Wi-Fi. Our power school went completely down, so…
34 Deputies call on France’s Minister of Justice to Request Extradition of Sebastien Raoult to France
Although it has been out of the news cycle in the U.S., counsel for suspected ShinyHunters member Sebastien Raoult continues to urge France to seek his client’s extradition to France from Morocco. Raoult has been sitting in a Moroccan jail since May 31 when he was picked up on a red notice from Interpol at…
Covering Up Cyber Breaches
I was researching something and stumbled across a post in r/sysadmin on Reddit that begins: I wanted to make this post for a few months now because I know we all have horror stories on this topic. It seems the only way to stop this is to make sure more IT admins are aware of…