Tom Leithauser writes: The Department of Defense would have to add new cybersecurity requirements to its contracts for telecom services when those services are used for “sensitive national security functions” under legislation released yesterday by the House Armed Services Committee. The committee released a compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal…
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Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you — Trumbull County, Ohio edition (1)
Over at SuspectFile, Marco A. De Felice reports: Trumbull County (Ohio) was hit by a severe cyberattack in the first days of November 2025, carried out by the ransomware group Anubis. Despite multiple public statements issued by county representatives—reported by several local news outlets—denying system compromise, data exfiltration, or any unauthorized access, the reality revealed in recent weeks…
Leavenworth, Kansas cyberattack disrupts city services
Joseph Topping reports: Officials in Leavenworth, Kansas, say a cyberattack behind a Nov. 19 network outage is still disrupting invoice, permitting and hiring systems, though emergency services remain unaffected. The city first reported a “network outage affecting city services” on Nov. 19 after computer and phone systems began failing late that morning. Outside information technology…
NL: Nuenen accidentally leaks addresses of 1,000 asylum center opponents
The NL Times reports: The municipality of Nuenen in Noord-Brabant inadvertently shared the addresses of more than 1,000 residents who had filed objections to the establishment of a temporary asylum seekers center, the local government reported. According to Omroep Brabant, the addresses were sent to multiple recipients in preparation for a hearing by the objections committee….
Virginia Twins Arrested for Conspiring to Destroy Government Databases
From the U.S. Department of Justice: Two Virginia men were arrested today for their roles in a conspiracy to destroy government databases hosted by a federal government contractor, among other crimes. According to court documents, brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, both 34, of Alexandria, Virginia, were indicted on Nov. 13 for conspiring to delete databases…
Cyberattack on Puerto Rico IT vendor Truenorth hits 3 agencies
Dysruption Hub reports: Puerto Rico officials say a Thanksgiving-week cyberattack on IT contractor Truenorth Corporation briefly disrupted systems at three major agencies but did not compromise citizen data, even as independent reporting describes a broader ransomware incident. Truenorth Corporation, an IT services firm that runs key systems for multiple Puerto Rico government agencies, was the…