Mark Harrington and Sandra Peddie report: A consulting firm hired to help manage Suffolk County’s response to a ransomware attack also has served as a lobbyist for the computer security company brought in more than three years ago to analyze and fortify Suffolk’s networks, according to a Newsday analysis of records. Computer security experts and…
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Kids today are ‘overly confident’ about their skills online—losing $101.4 million to hackers last year
Tom Huddleston Jr. reports: You might think today’s teens are as tech-savvy as they come. But being digital natives doesn’t make them immune to online scams. People under the age of 20 lost $101.4 million to online scams in 2021, according to a recent study from cybersecurity startup Social Catfish, which cited figures from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime…
Il: Security breach in Shas database could expose information of millions
Roman Meitav reports: A serious security breach in the Shas Party’s computerized election management system has left it vulnerable to easy exploitation, even by those with only basic knowledge of cybersecurity, according to tech experts. The breach in the system, which contains not just the data of Shas supporters and activists but rather the information of all Israeli…
Alleged administrator of “Germany on the Deep Web” marketplace arrested
The following is a machine translation of a press release on BKA.de, website of Germany’s federal criminal police, Bundeskriminalamt, that appeared on October 27: The Darknet marketplace “Germany on the Deep Web ” was the main point of contact for drug trafficking for several years. The alleged operator of the illegal platform has now been arrested. The Federal Criminal…
Bed Bath & Beyond reviewing possible data breach (UPDATED)
Reuters reports: Bed Bath & Beyond Inc said on Friday a third party had this month improperly accessed its data through a phishing scam by accessing the hard drive and certain shared drives of one of its employees. The big-box retailer said it was reviewing the data that was accessed so it can determine whether…
NY: Fulton data breach compromised personal data of thousands
Eddie Velazquez reports: The data breach discovered last November at Fulton City Police compromised the personal data of 28,282 people, according to a government data breach notice. Information breached as a result of what the city of Fulton calls a “data event” could include individuals’ name, Social Security numbers, identification numbers, and personal financial account…