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OH: Firelands middle school online classes suspended following ‘Zoom bombing’ incident

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Dissent

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…

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Regulatory Crackdown on Ransomware

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Dissent

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…

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Threat actors claim to have attacked City of Dade City, Florida

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Dissent

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…

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Hackers at center of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds’ dominance against it

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Dissent

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…

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NY: Great Neck Yeshiva HS Site Hacked, Anti-Semitic Propaganda Posted

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Dissent

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.

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New York State warns motorists of phishing scam asking for personal information

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Dissent

This one’s local, so…. The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles is alerting consumers after several New Yorkers reported receiving phishing texts asking for personal information. Posted: Dec 11, 2020 10:43 AM Updated: Dec 11, 2020 10:49 AM Posted By: WKTV You can see examples of the phishing messages and get more information on…

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