It feels like it’s been a while since we’ve seen an FTC data security case (well, apart from Zoom’s issues). Today, FTC issued a press release about a settlement stemming from SkyMed International’s misconfigured elastic search instance that exposed more than 130,000 people’s information. The exposed data were discovered by Jeremiah Fowler and reported in…
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OH: Firelands middle school online classes suspended following ‘Zoom bombing’ incident
Carissa Woytach reports: A Zoom meeting at a Firelands School building was hacked Monday, forcing the building to suspend live online classes. A seventh-grade online class from South Amherst Middle School was hacked, with a person posing as a student joining the meeting displaying pornography on their screen, according to emails sent to parents and…
Regulatory Crackdown on Ransomware
Seetha Ramachandran, Nolan Goldberg and Hena M. Vora of Proskauer write: It is increasingly common for Ransomware attacks to be associated with large sophisticated cyber-criminal organizations, with a central entity providing the tools, training, and ability to collect ransoms and sending its “associates” out to cause harm. As long as victims continue to pay ransoms, Ransomware…
Threat actors claim to have attacked City of Dade City, Florida
From the this-doesn’t-bode-well department: Avaddon threat actors claim to have attacked the City of Dade City, Florida. Although the city has not made any statement either denying or confirming any attack at the time of this posting, the attackers did post some screenshots of directories and files that seem consistent with their claims. The attackers…
Hackers at center of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds’ dominance against it
Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing have a somewhat mind-boggling update to the SolarWinds hack – a hack that will be remembered as one of the biggest and most concerning hacks of 2020. And it’s only likely to get worse for SolarWinds, whose stock already dropped significantly. We know that companies can recover from breaches and…
NY: Great Neck Yeshiva HS Site Hacked, Anti-Semitic Propaganda Posted
Daniel Hampton reports: The website for a yeshiva high school in Great Neck was down Monday evening following an apparent hack in which anti-Semitic propaganda and racial slurs were reportedly published. Patch confirmed that around 5 p.m., the website for North Shore Hebrew Academy showed the site was “under construction.” Read more on Patch.