Danny Lee reports: Boeing Co. unit Jeppesen has been hit by a cyberattack that’s affecting access to its flight planning software, which is used by airlines globally. “Our subsidiary, Jeppesen, experienced a cyber incident affecting certain flight planning products and services,” Boeing spokesman Yukui Wang said in an email Friday. “There has been some flight planning disruption, but…
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Cyberattack Disrupts Trains in Denmark
Eduard Kovacs reports: According to Danish broadcaster DR, all trains operated by DSB, the largest train operating company in the country, came to a standstill on Saturday morning and could not resume their journey for several hours. While this may sound like the work of a sophisticated threat actor that targeted operational technology (OT) systems in…
LinkedIn Scores Partial Win in Long-Running Data Scraping Feud
Andrea Vittorio reports: A workforce analytics firm breached LinkedIn Corp.‘s user agreement by scraping data and using fake accounts to fuel its now-defunct business, a federal court in San Francisco ruled in a lengthy dispute that’s on a path to trial. The ruling, made public Friday, represents a partial win for LinkedIn in a case that…
CT: Brookfield admits ‘blackout pen’ error led to sharing of special education students’ information
Trevor Ballantyne reports: School officials this week acknowledged a failure to properly redact personally identifiable information linked to students receiving special education services from the school district. According to emails obtained by The News-Times, parents accused the district of violating privacy protections laid out under the U.S. Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA,…
OK: Norman Public Schools experiencing malicious ransomware attack
Terre Gables reports: Norman Public Schools is currently experiencing a malicious ransomware attack. Wes Moody, Public Information Officer Norman Public Schools says, “a message we have sent to staff and parents stating the following: NPS Parents, OUR NPS NETWORKS ARE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING A MALICIOUS RANSOMWARE ATTACK. OUR TECHNOLOGY SERVICES TEAM IS HARD AT WORK TO…
Landi Renzo S.p.A. victim of cyberattack by Hive
Landi Renzo SpA was added to Hive’s leak site yesterday. The threat actors did not provide any proof pack but DataBreaches was provided with access to what Hive claims is 534 GB of files that they exfiltrated. Landi Renzo SpA is an Italian-headquartered firm that researches and manufactures eco-friendly automotive fuel supply systems. According to…