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MN: Minneapolis Police Officer’s Data Misuse Claims Head to Retrial

Posted on March 20, 2021 by Dissent

There’s an update to litigation stemming from misuse of a Minnesota state database. The case began in 2013, when Amy Krekelberg received a  notice from Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources that informed her that an employee had abused his access to a government driver’s license database and snooped on thousands of people in the state,…

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WA: Douglas County targeted as part of international cyber attack

Posted on March 19, 2021 by Dissent

Tony Buhr reports: Douglas County was one of thousands of servers targeted in a cyberattack by a group out of China. It was an international attack that occurred March 2 and exploited a weakness in Microsoft servers, said Brad Hudson, Douglas County management information systems manager. The attack required Hudson to spend Friday through Sunday…

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Finland pins Parliament hack on Chinese hacking group APT31

Posted on March 18, 2021 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: Finnish officials formally blamed today a group of Chinese state-sponsored hackers known as APT31 for a cyber-attack that breached the Finnish Parliament’s internal IT systems last year. The attack, which took place in the fall of 2020, also resulted in attackers gaining access to the email accounts of some members of Parliament,…

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NY: Tri County Sheriff Dispatch hit with ransomware attack

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Dissent

News10 reports: The Albany County Sheriff’s Office says on Tuesday around 9:30 p.m. the Tri County Public Safety network which includes Albany, Saratoga, and Rensselaer Counties, was hit with a ransomware attack. Their office reportedly worked throughout the night with their vendors, as well as NYDHSES Office of Counter Terrorism Cyber Incident Response Team to…

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Ransomware attack on Pimpri Chinchwad Smart City servers managed by Tech Mahindra

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Dissent

The Economic Times reports: Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation Smart City said on Monday that it had not suffered any data loss due to a ransomware attack late last month and that it had also not paid ransom to the hackers. This is perhaps the first known instance of a cyberattack on a Smart City project, which…

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The Metropolitan Area of ​​Barcelona hit by ransomware

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Dissent

Juan Ranchal reports (translation): The Metropolitan Area of ​​Barcelona, ​​AMB, has suspended its digital services after suffering a computer attack that is suspected of being a Ransomware like the recent one from SEPE. “For external reasons, the AMB systems have been affected and electronic processing, other digital services and updating the website are not available,” this administrative body…

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