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Jamaica’s JamCOVID pulled offline after third security lapse exposed travelers’ data

Posted on February 27, 2021 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: Jamaica’s JamCOVID app and website were taken offline late on Thursday following a third security lapse, which exposed quarantine orders on more than half a million travelers to the island. JamCOVID was set up last year to help the government process travelers arriving on the island. Quarantine orders are issued by the…

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Former Air Force Contractor Pleads Guilty to Illegally Taking 2,500 Pages of Classified Information

Posted on February 27, 2021 by Dissent

WASHINGTON – A former contractor with the U.S. Air Force pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio today to illegally taking approximately 2,500 pages of classified documents. Izaak Vincent Kemp, 35, of Fairborn, was charged on Jan. 25, 2021, by a Bill of Information. According to court documents, Kemp was employed…

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Ransomware gang hacks Ecuador’s largest private bank, Ministry of Finance

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: A hacking group called ‘Hotarus Corp’ has hacked Ecuador’s Ministry of Finance and the country’s largest bank, Banco Pichincha, where they claim to have stolen internal data. The ransomware gang first targeted Ecuador’s Ministry of Finance, the Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas de Ecuador, where they deployed a PHP-based ransomware strain to…

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AU: ‘Security risks’: Ministers’ private email accounts in historical data breach

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Dissent

Matt Denien reports: A private email account used by Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, and potentially the password unlocking a linked social media platform, was exposed in a 2016 data breach that affected more than 150 million other LinkedIn users across the globe. An account used by Transport Minister Mark Bailey, which was subject to a…

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Morgan County, Missouri: DoppelPaymer publishes the first data stolen during the cyber attack

Posted on February 25, 2021 by Dissent

Marco De Felice reports: Morgan County in Missouri is one of the latest government institutions affected by the DoppelPaymer ransomware group. The ransomware group, during the attack on the County’s computer systems, exfiltrated sensitive documents and some of them were posted on the dark web. Read more on SuspectFile.

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Kentucky reports ‘possible cyberattack’ on unemployment claims website

Posted on February 25, 2021 by Dissent

There have been a rash of reports on unemployment fraud due to states simplifying the process to apply online during the pandemic.  Could this be part of that bigger picture? WAVE3 reported that the Kentucky Career Center posted the following statement on its website: While there has not been any security breach and no information…

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