Walter Strong reports: The Northwest Territories Power Corporation’s (NTPC) website went down Thursday afternoon, but some pages show what appears to be a ransomware message from unknown hackers. Some visitors to the website myntpc.ntpc.com were greeted with a text page that begins with: “Hi! Your files are encrypted by Netwalker.” Read more on CBC.ca
Category: Government Sector
Alabama Dept. of Labor fixes app after personal information revealed
WPMI reports that an app developed to help Alabamians apply for unemployment benefits and check on their status was exposing personal information: Our sister station WBMA in Birmingham did some digging and found out that new app exposed the personal information of unemployment applicants to others. Rhonda Jones says when she tried to view her daughter’s documents…
UK: Nine million logs of Brits’ road journeys spill onto the internet from password-less number-plate camera dashboard
Gareth Corfield reports: In a blunder described as “astonishing and worrying,” Sheffield City Council’s automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) system exposed to the internet 8.6 million records of road journeys made by thousands of people, The Register can reveal. Read more on The Register.
Israel Thwarts Major Coordinated Cyber-Attack on Its Water Infrastructure Command and Control Systems
Benjamin Kerstein reports: Israel thwarted a major cyber-attack on its water infrastructure over the weekend. In a statement, Israel’s National Cyber Directorate announced, “Reports have been received by the National Cyber Directorate about attempted attacks on command and control systems of wastewater treatment plants, pumping stations, and sewage.” Read more on Algemeiner.com.
GAO wants four agencies to up their cybersecurity game by this fall
Andrew Eversden reported: Four Cabinet-level agencies are working to finalize risk-management strategies and improve internal cybersecurity coordination by this fall at the behest of the Government Accountability Office, according to new reports released by the watchdog this month. According to the “priority open recommendations” reports, which detail the GAO’s top unimplemented recommendations to an agency,…
IN: Nagaland govt investigating data leak of stranded persons
Medolenuo Ambrocia reports: Kohima: A major data breach in the government of Nagaland website to help citizens stranded outside the state has led to personal details of these individuals being exposed. Personal information including bank account details, AADHAAR number, phone numbers, address etc have been leaked into the public domain. This is serious as this private…