(translation from WDR): The city of Paderborn’s ‘Lernstatt’ network has become the target of a major hacker attack. The cyber attack paralyzed numerous mail accounts and web conferences. On Friday morning there were around 20 million accesses in just under half an hour, mainly to mail traffic and web conferences. 17,000 student and 2000 teacher…
Category: Government Sector
Florida launches investigation into hacking of its servers
Bobby Caina Calvan of AP reports: Florida officials acknowledged Friday that state servers appear to have been compromised by overseas hackers who gained entry by imbedding malicious code into networking software from a Texas-based software company, SolarWinds. Two Florida officials who have knowledge of the matter but spoke on condition of anonymity because they were…
FR: Services in Évreux and the agglomeration shut down after cyberattack
Laurent Philippot reports that the City of Evreux and the Évreux Portes de Normandie became victims of a ransomware attack about a week ago. At the present time, they locked down their systems to keep the attacker out, but that means that phones and internet are degraded or not working at this time. The mayor…
IN: Telangana Government Site Flaw Exposed Sensitive Data of All Its Employees, Pensioners; Fixed Only After Three Months
Jagmeet Singh reports: Telangana state government took over three months to protect sensitive details of its employees and pensioners from its website. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) confirmed the vulnerability and replied on email in September to say that the authorities had been intimated about the issue, and Telangana IT Secretary Jayesh Ranjan…
OH: Olmsted Falls City Council approves new computer vendor to provide data security
In a year when so many small government agencies have been attacked, it’s nice to see local governments address improving security, although advertising how vulnerable they may currently be may be an invitation to attackers. John Benson reports: hen it comes to data security and computer operations, it doesn’t matter if you’re talking about a…
AU: Service NSW not effectively handling private information: NSW Auditor-General
Chris Duckett reports: The NSW Auditor-General Margaret Crawford has released her office’s report into how Service NSW handles personal and business information, following the agency being breached earlier this year. In May, the agency fessed up to the phishing attack, which led to 47 staff email accounts being compromised. The breach was said to have impacted 186,000 customers and…