Natalie Chuck reports that another district in Colorado has sent letters to parents about the breach at Illuminate Education that impacted more than 820,000 students in New York City as well as 24 other districts and 18 charter schools in NY: Someone, somewhere knows details about thousands of students in southern Colorado after a data…
Author: Dissent
On Password Day, a Chilling Observation
It’s Password Day, and this is as good a time as any to mention that Britton White and I have been collaborating on some research expanding on his investigation into infostealers. We will be reporting on that work in the near future, hopefully. But in the meantime, Britton posted this today about something he found:…
Anonymous Leak 82GB of Police Emails Against Australia’s Offshore Detention
Waqas reports: On Monday, May 2nd, 2022, the Anonymous collective released 82GB worth of emails apparently belonging to the Nauru Police Force. According to Anonymous, the data leak was in protest against the alleged ill-treatment of asylum seekers and refugees carried out by Island authorities on behalf of the Australian government. For your information, Nauru is a…
Newport buys AI cyber protection
Kenneth Lipp reports: Newport City Council voted last week to approve a contract for software that uses “artificial intelligence” to detect malicious network activity, bidding to avoid having its data and network seized in ransomware attacks, as have other municipalities in Oregon. Read more at Newport News Times. See what you think about this one.
Conti, REvil, LockBit ransomware bugs exploited to block encryption
Ionut Ilascu reports: Hackers commonly exploit vulnerabilities in corporate networks to gain access, but a researcher has turned the table by finding exploits in the most common ransomware and malware being distributed today. Malware from notorious ransomware operations like Conti, the revived REvil, the newcomer Black Basta, the highly active LockBit, or AvosLocker, all came with…
Lincoln College was already struggling. Then came ransomware.
Emily Bamforth reported this on April 21 on EdScoop. Somehow I missed it, but it’s so important that I am adding it now: As Illinois’ Lincoln College approached its two-week winter hiatus last December, workers walked in one weekend to find printers spewing threatening notes saying the school’s data was locked up and could only…