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Ca: City hall privacy breach affects staff

Posted on January 14, 2022 by Dissent

Susan Gamble reports: A privacy breach that may have exposed Brantford municipal staff job application records, vaccination status and personal addresses was announced by the city on Wednesday evening. A news release sent out by the city said the breach was in an internal intranet system, which is only accessible to city staff, and not…

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In change, Army to allow file downloads for Army 365 email on personal devices

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Dissent

Davis Winkie reports: After months of soldiers complaining that security features on the Army’s new email platform were preventing them from doing basic tasks, the Army’s top IT official announced a change to the Army 365 download policy in a Monday LinkedIn post. Army Times previously reported the frustration that some soldiers were experiencing because the new email…

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Ransomware puts New Mexico prison in lockdown: Cameras, doors go offline

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Dissent

Thomas Claburn reports: Bernalillo County, New Mexico, has been unable to comply with the settlement terms of a 27-year-old lawsuit over prison conditions because of a ransomware attack last week that saw prisoners back under manual control. County officials on January 6, 2022, filed a notice [PDF] with the New Mexico District Court overseeing the…

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Maryland Department Of Health Confirms Ransomware Attack Caused Disruption In COVID-19 Data Last Month

Posted on January 12, 2022 by Dissent

CBS reports: A disruption last month in the Maryland Department of Health’s reporting of COVID-19 data was in fact a ransomware attack, the state’s Chief Information Security Officer Chip Stewart said Wednesday. Read more at CBS Baltimore.

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South African justice department clueless about hacked data

Posted on January 12, 2022 by Dissent

It’s not exactly the headline you’d want for your agency, but that’s what MyBroadband came up with for this report by Myles Illidge: The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD) has no idea whether any data was stolen during a ransomware attack on its systems in September 2021. “The Department cannot tell with certainty as to…

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PhL Comelec official calls data breach report ‘fake news’

Posted on January 12, 2022 by Dissent

Jauhn Etienne Villaruel reports: A Commission on Elections (Comelec) official for the first time on Wednesday categorically denied its systems were hacked that allegedly compromised sensitive data as claimed by a newspaper report published Monday. Comelec investigating alleged data breach ahead of #Halalan2022 In a tweet, Comelec commissioner Rowena Guanzon labelled as “fake news” the…

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