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Czech officials in Prague ‘hit by massive cyber attack’

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Dissent

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…

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Chinese cyber attack foiled: Power Ministry

Posted on March 2, 2021 by Dissent

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…

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AZ: City of Kingman government computer system hit by cyberattack

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Dissent

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…

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Israeli company engaged by Jamaica targeted by cyber crooks

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Dissent

Livern Barrett reports: The Jamaican Government, after months of silence, has disclosed that it has signed a five-year J$4-billion contract with the Israeli firm ELTA Systems Limited, but has sought to assure Jamaicans that they have nothing to fear. The disclosure and simultaneous assurance comes two months after a report by a technology website based…

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PH: Civil Service Commission data breach, thousands of user details exposed

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Dissent

Art Samaniego reports: A hacker who calls himself IamNoobie told me that he was so pissed-off with the way government agencies implement security in their websites and servers that he decided to “take matters into his own keyboard”. IamNoobie noticed that the server of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) has promising results when he Google…

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Dozens of institutional abuse victims to sue over data breach

Posted on February 27, 2021 by Dissent

Claire Simpson reports an update to an email gaffe breach that I had characterized as one of the worst breaches in 2020. I had been somewhat surprised to later read that four out of five victims groups were backing Brendan McAllister. I am not surprised that at least some of those exposed by the breach…

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