Megan Gray-Hatfield reports: A cyberattack on the Cooke County Sheriff’s Office compromised people’s personal information, County Judge Jason Brinkley said. A press release issued Monday, July 20, states a ransomware attack on the county’s information system for the CCSO on July 4 resulted in a data breach of personal identification information. Read more on Gainesville…
Category: Government Sector
Arkansas state vendor sued over data breach
Stephen Steed reports: A lawsuit filed Thursday in Pulaski County Circuit Court says the security breach of a new state computer program this spring led to identity theft of those seeking to apply for unemployment compensation benefits. The lawsuit claims that Protech Solutions of Little Rock, which was hired by the state to develop the…
Iranian Spies Accidentally Leaked Videos of Themselves Hacking
Andy Greenberg reports: WHEN SECURITY RESEARCHERS piece together the blow-by-blow of a state-sponsored hacking operation, they’re usually following a thin trail of malicious code samples, network logs, and connections to faraway servers. That detective work gets significantly easier when hackers record what they’re doing and upload the video to an unprotected server on the open internet….
Update on Click2Gov incident in Palm Bay
The city of Palm Bay has apparently had enough of Click2Gov concerns and is parting company with their vendor. According to a report on Hometown News, the city has received an update from Central Square about the potential breach it learned about on June 29: Central Square has identified a security vulnerability within their system;…
Personal info of Minn. law enforcement, critical infrastructure personnel published online in “BlueLeaks”
Tony Webster reports on how the “BlueLeaks” dump of a hack at Netsential, is impacting Minnesota law enforcement: A trove of Minnesota law enforcement data was published online after hackers broke into the servers of a vendor of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office. The sensitive information includes details about…
Germany seizes server hosting pilfered “Blue Leaks” U.S. police files
Frank Bajak reports: At the behest of the U.S. government, German authorities have seized a computer server that hosted a huge cache of files from scores of U.S. federal, state and local law enforcement agencies obtained in a Houston data breach last month. The server was being used by a WikiLeaks-like data transparency collective called…