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Souderton Area School District Contending With Ransomware Cyberattack

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Dissent

ABC reports: The Souderton Area School District has become the most recent apparent victim of a ransomware cyberattack that struck soon after the beginning of the new school year. Superintendent Dr. Frank Gallagher says that the district’s computer network was hit by the malware attack on September 1, after students had returned to class the…

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Secret Service Investigates Breach at U.S. Govt IT Contractor

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The contractor claims the access being auctioned off was to old test systems that do not have direct connections…

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Capital One Hack Prosecution Raises New and Old Questions about Adequacy of CFAA

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Dissent

Timothy H. Gray, Ethan Kisch and Michael F. Buchanan of Patterson Belknap write: On August 28, 2019, almost a month after Paige A. Thompson was arrested based on allegations that she hacked into servers rented by Capital One Financial Corporation, a criminal indictment was returned charging her with one count each of computer and wire…

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Student pleads guilty to IRS hack attempt for Trump tax returns

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Dissent

Charlie Osborne reports: The subject of past tax returns remains a sore issue for US President Trump and one student who attempted to take matters into his own hands may be facing jail time for his efforts. Andrew Harris, a previous student at Haverford College, tried to hack his way into systems belonging to the…

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Ransomware caused outages at RPS 205, could last days

Posted on September 9, 2019 by Dissent

WFIR in Illinois reports that Rockford Public Schools Dist. 205 suffered a ransomware attack that caused the widespread outages that began Friday. The district is not sharing details about what type of ransomware or how much ransom was demanded — and whether they have paid it. But schools remain open while the district continues to…

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Premier Family Medical in Utah notifying 320,000 patients of ransomware incident

Posted on September 9, 2019 by Dissent

Premier Family Medical in Utah is notifying 320,000 patients of a ransomware incident that they disclosed in August. The incident has now been posted on HHS’s public breach tool after the physician group notified HHS several days ago. In an August 30th notice on their website, practice explained that on July 8, they experienced a…

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