Arcangelo Ròciola reports: AGI – Unprecedented hacker attack on the IT systems of the Lazio Region. A virus has taken offline the Region’s website, that of the Regional Council and the booking portal for vaccines against Covid-19. Systems went haywire about shortly after midnight today. From what AGI learned shortly after the attack, the virus…
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Fr: Former police officer convicted of selling confidential information on the dark web
Marco A. De Felice reports: Christophe Boutry, a former DGSI ( Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure ) agent, was sentenced to 7 years in prison (with a two-year suspension) for selling confidential information from law enforcement databases on the darkweb. Documents stolen from police archives include fake marriage permits and certificates and sensitive information on the Marseille…
Westfield IT director stops what appeared to be active cyber security breach after clerk-treasurer issues third-party contract
Did a city’s IT Director stop a breach in progress or did he just interrupt a forensic investigation by a firm that had been hired but never identified to his office? Anna Skinner reports on what seems to be a case of Westfield officials either not communicating well with each other, or not trusting each…
EE: RIA unlikely to be fined over mass photo hack, victims not compensated
ERR News reports that a recently reported data security incident is unlikely to result in any monetary penalty or compensation claims: A recent hack by a single individual of close to 300,000 personal identification photos from the State Information System (RIA) is unlikely either to result in compensation to those whose data was stolen, or…
DOJ says SolarWinds hack impacted 27 state attorneys’ offices
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The Russian hackers who orchestrated the SolarWinds supply chain attack pivoted to the internal network of the US Department of Justice, from where they gained access to Microsoft Office 365 email accounts belonging to employees at 27 state attorneys’ offices, the DOJ said in a statement on Friday afternoon. Read more on…
Illinois AG Raoul Spends $2.5M On Ransomware Hack: Report
Jeff Arnold reports: Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office spent more than $2.5 million for cybersecurity after a ransomware hack in April that put the personal data of an unknown number of residents at risk and came after federal authorities told him that his office’s cybersecurity systems were lacking. …. In the meantime, Raoul’s office…