Reuters reports: Hackers have infiltrated the Norwegian Parliament’s computer systems and extracted data, officials said on Wednesday, just six months after a previous cyber attack was made public. The attack by unknown hackers was linked to a “vulnerability” in Microsoft’s Exchange software, the parliament said, adding that this was an “international problem”. Read more Reuters….
Category: Government Sector
Cyberattack hits NJ employee portal containing sensitive data
Dustin Racioppi reports: Hackers targeted the accounts of about 200 state employees in a cyberattack on a government portal that holds sensitive personal and financial data such as Social Security numbers, birthdays and pension information, according to state and union officials. The late-January attack was disclosed to employees and their accounts were “immediately disabled,” a spokeswoman for…
Data leak at Dutch foreign credential assessment service impacts 18,000
ANP reports (translation): Foreigners looking for a job in the Netherlands can obtain an assessment of their diploma on the labor market from the organization Nuffic. The application system used by Nuffic has been tested by some sixty software developers in Serbia. This country is not part of the European Union, which means that rather strict rules…
Czech officials in Prague ‘hit by massive cyber attack’
EuroNews reports: Czech officials in Prague have been hit by a large-scale cyberattack, according to the city’s mayor. “There has been a massive cyber attack on public administration systems,” Zdeněk Hřib tweeted, adding that the servers had “survived” and there was little damage. An immediate outage was made on the email system to maintain security. Read…
Chinese cyber attack foiled: Power Ministry
The Hindu reports: “State-sponsored” Chinese hacker groups had targeted various Indian power centres, the Union Power Ministry said on Monday, but added that these groups have been thwarted after government cyber agencies warned it about their activities. While the government refused to confirm or deny a New York Times report, based on a U.S. cyber…
AZ: City of Kingman government computer system hit by cyberattack
abc15 reports: Local and federal authorities are working with the City of Kingman after the city’s government computer system was targeted by a cyberattack. According to a Sunday release from spokeswoman Colleen Haines, the city became aware of the attack “throughout the entire computer system” on Friday. The FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and Arizona…