Email gaffes are still a thing, too. Kevin O’Sullivan reports: A Scottish local authority has apologised for a data breach after sending details of 600 free school meals claimants to ‘multiple’ email accounts. Scottish Borders council sent out the email in an IT blunder as it tried to contact 1,300 residents to inform them of…
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Ca: Saint John won’t pay ransom to hackers, city manager says
Julia Wright of CBC reports: The city of Saint John has no plans to pay hackers a ransom after its network was attacked three months ago. In his regular update to common council Monday, city manager John Collin said the city had a backup system in place and “the vast majority” of the data has…
Transport for NSW confirms data taken in Accellion breach
Aras Barbaschow reports: Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) has confirmed being impacted by a cyber attack on a file transfer system owned by Accellion. Read more on ZDNet.
Fr: The city of Chalon-sur-Saône victim of a cyberattack
Le Dauphine reports (translation): After the Villefranche-sur-Saône hospital or even the Dax hospital , it is the turn of the city and the agglomeration of Chalon-sur-Saône to be victims of a cyberattack. In the night from Saturday to Sunday, the computer systems were affected by “a crypto-virus”, told Frédéric Iacovella, director general of the services of the City and…
Amber Group breaks silence on unsecured storage bucket; NatSec minister suggests TechCrunch reporter may have violated CyberCrime Act
The Gleaner reports a follow-up on an unsecured storage server exposing personal information and COVID-related information of travelers to Jamaica. The exposed bucket was first reported by Zack Whittaker of TechCrunch on February 17: The storage server, hosted on Amazon Web Services, was set to public. It’s not known for how long the data was…
India’s cyber defenses breached and reported; govt. yet to fix it
John Xavier reports that India’s government has been slow to respond to a report by ethical hackers that had been shared with the U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3): which initiated contact with the India’s National Critical Infrastructure Information Protection Centre (NCIIPC). Following this, the security team shared its 34-page threat report to…