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Indian government issues confidential infosec guidance to staff – who leak it

Posted on June 20, 2022 by Dissent

Simon Sharwood reports: India’s government last week issued confidential information security guidelines that calls on the 30 million plus workers it employs to adopt better work practices – and as if to prove a point, the document quickly leaked on a government website. Read more at The Register.

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UK: Thousands of service families’ addresses and private information compromised after surge in security breaches at MoD

Posted on June 19, 2022 by Dissent

David Wooding reports: Defence chiefs were told to get a grip yesterday after a surge in security and data breaches. Thousands of service families have had addresses and private information compromised. Figures reveal more than a quarter of all blunders since 2010 took place in the last year — 559 in 2020-21, and 2,000 in…

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Ransomware attack reported at Council on Aging of Buncombe County

Posted on June 18, 2022 by Dissent

WLOS reports from North Carolina: A local non-profit that works with thousands of seniors has had a security breach. The director of Buncombe County’s Council on Aging believes someone hit the non-profit’s computers with ransomware Monday and staff were concerned private information might have been stolen. News 13 has confirmed Asheville police are involved.

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TX: Guadalupe County investigating potential network breach

Posted on June 14, 2022 by Dissent

Dalondo Moultrie reports: A data security incident has Guadalupe County officials on high alert and working together and with outside agencies to determine risk factors for county employees and residents. County information technology leaders learned about the incident early Saturday and quickly moved the county into defense mode, County Judge Kyle Kutscher said. The county…

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India’s farmers exposed by new Aadhaar data leak

Posted on June 14, 2022 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: A security researcher said an Indian government website was exposing the Aadhaar numbers of India’s farmers, potentially amounting to millions of people. Atul Nair told TechCrunch that he found a part of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi website that was revealing the farmers’ information. PM-Kisan, as the agency is better known, is an…

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More details emerge on Palermo ransomware attack — threat actors claim 350 GB stolen and 70% of files encrypted

Posted on June 13, 2022 by Dissent

Last week, the municipality of Palermo, Italy issued a statement that it had shut down systems in response to a cyberattack and that all services had been impacted.  The Vice Society ransomware group subsequently claimed responsibility for the attack by adding Palermo to their list of “partners” on their dark web leak site.  As DataBreaches.net…

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