Adam Vidler reports: A former student has been charged over a series of cyber attacks on a Sydney university that affected hundreds of staff and students. Since 2021, Western Sydney University had suffered a series of cyber hacks involving unauthorised access, data exfiltration, system compromise and misuse of university infrastructure – including threatening the sale of student…
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Former JBLM soldier pleads guilty to attempting to share military secrets with China
A former U.S. Army Sergeant whose last duty post was Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) in western Washington pleaded guilty on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to two federal felonies, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller. Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 31, pleaded guilty to attempt to deliver national defense information and retention of national defense information. He faces up…
Alleged Geisinger hacker will defend himself pro se.
John Beauge reports: The man accused of downloading protected information of more than 1.2 million Geisinger Health System patients in 2023 will defend himself at his criminal trial. U.S. Middle District Judge Matthew W. Brann granted the motion of Max Vance to proceed pro se but assigned assistant public defender Gerald A. Lord as standby…
Major trial underway for data leak that left 72,000 victims in France
The Connexion reports: A large-scale trial is opening in Lyon this week after the discovery of a major data leak at a French work agency Adecco that left 72,000 victims in one of the most serious data-related frauds ever uncovered in France. 16 people are in the dock at the Lyon correctional court facing 22…
WMATA Train Operators Arrested in Health Care Fraud Scheme
June 13 – Michelle Shropshire, 54, of Waldorf, Maryland, and Harlisha Jones, 49, of Clinton, Maryland, and Washington, DC, were arrested this morning on health care fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy charges filed in U.S. District Court. According to the indictment, from June 2021 through January 2024, Shropshire and Jones,…
Slapped wrists for Financial Conduct Authority staff who emailed work data home
How many warnings would you give employees not to send work to their personal email accounts? And why hasn’t a government agency deployed a software solution to prevent such transmissions? Connor Jones reports: Four staffers at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) were let off with warnings over separate cases involving the transmission of regulator…