Pierluigi Paganini reports: Tyler Technologies has finally decided to paid a ransom to obtain a decryption key and recover files encrypted in a recent ransomware attack. Tyler Technologies, Inc. is the largest provider of software to the United States public sector. At the end of September, the company disclosed a ransomware attack and its customers reported…
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AU: Spotless hit by ransomware attack
Ry Crozier reports: Spotless Group, the Downer-owned facilities services provider, is the latest high-profile Australian company to fall victim to ransomware attackers. iTnews learned that the company had been attacked on Friday last week, and a Downer spokesperson confirmed the infection. “We are investigating suspicious activity involving unauthorised access to a number of Spotless servers,” a…
Law firm discloses ransomware attack
There have been numerous law firms that have been hacked in the past few years, or worse, attacked with the double whammy of having copies of their files exfiltrated before their systems were encrypted. What may surprise the public is how some of the bigger law firms refuse to pay ransom — either for a…
620 applicants file joint case against IT firm which exposed voter data
Here’s a follow-up to a data leak incident that may have escaped our attention as the pandemic was absorbing a lot of attention and the news cycle in April: More than 620 claimants have come together to file a joint lawsuit against an IT firm which exposed personal data of more than 337,000 voters in…
Some Longmont NextLight customers’ service affected by Friday cyberattack
John Fryar reports: A Friday afternoon cyberattack on NextLight, Longmont’s high-speed, fiber optic broadband internet service, affected a number of customers but has been resolved by NextLight engineers, Longmont Power and Communications reported in a Facebook post Friday. Longmont Power and Communications spokesman Scott Rochat wrote in an email that the disruption was the result…
Defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in his employer’s information he was accused of taking
FourthAmendment.com highlights a court opinion out of Massachusetts: Defendant is charged with accessing and taking his employer’s information for the purpose of setting up a rival company doing the same thing. His motion to suppress the information is denied because he has no reasonable expectation of privacy in it. United States v. Yu, 2020 U.S….