Almost one year after a Nigerian national was extradited from Canada and charged with defrauding vendors of office products by “phishing” e-mail login information from government employees, Olumide Ogunremi, a/k/a “Tony Williams,” was sentenced in federal court in Newark. The sentence was announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey. Ogunremi…
Category: Government Sector
AL: St. Clair County is latest victim of cyberattack
WBRC reports: St. Clair County Commission Chairman Paul Manning said the county is a victim of a cyberattack, but no data has left the system. Manning said on September 21, 2020, around 7:00 p.m., St. Clair County was the target of the cyberattack. The county immediately began taking actions to mitigate and remediate any hardware…
Legal misinterpretation to blame for delay in reporting Kentucky unemployment breach
Matthew Glowicki reports: An inspector general report has found there were “unacceptable” delays in reporting an April security breach of Kentucky’s unemployment system but that residents’ personal information doesn’t appear to have been misused. The report primarily blames the monthlong delay in reporting the breach on current legal staff who relied on a holdover procedure from the previous administration…
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus reacted to the leak of data from law enforcement officers
Bhavi Mandalia reports: The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus reacted to the leak of data from law enforcement officers to the Internet….. The data of more than a thousand law enforcement officers were made public on September 19. In particular, the surnames, first names, patronymics, dates of birth, city of residence, rank and position…
Cyber security breach at National Informatics Centre, malware attack traced to Bengaluru
ET reports: Breaching cyber security a malware attack on 100 computers of the National Informatics Centre (NIC) was reported on Friday. The government’s nodal agency NIC is responsible for securing critical cyber-infrastructure in the country and comes under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). Read more on ET.
UPDATE: City of Carmel website remains down after hacking incident
Kurt Christian reports: Carmel’s official city website remained out of service Friday afternoon while officials investigated a hacking incident. The city said its information technology department discovered shortly after 8 a.m. Friday that carmel.in.gov had been been hit by hackers. City spokesman Dan McFeely said the city immediately took down the website and is now working to…