Briana Harvath reports: Lee County manager Roger Desjarlais held a news conference concerning a cybersecurity breach Friday afternoon. There has been a cyberattack on the Lee County system. The incident is being actively investigated. The county technology experts are fully engaged in resolving the issue. In reaction to this incident, the county has temporarily disabled…
Category: Government Sector
Hackers hit Travis Central Appraisal District website
Paul Thompson reports: The Travis Central Appraisal District has been malfunctioning for about a week after it was hit by a cyberattack on Sept. 11. The agency on Sept. 19 confirmed the attack. Chief Appraiser Marya Crigler said in a statement its computer systems were attacked at 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 11. The attack affected…
Ca: Stratford paid more than $75,000 in Bitcoin following cyber attack
Galen Simmons reports: More than five months after the City of Stratford announced it had been the target of a ransomware cyber attack on April 14, officials announced Thursday that the city paid more than $75,000 in Bitcoins as ransom to the attacker. Read more on The Beacon Herald.
Eight cities impacted in second wave of Click2Gov breaches – Gemini Advisory
It’s been a rough year for municipalities, and it’s only likely to get worse. While we read more and more reports of school districts becoming victims of ransomware attacks that delayed school openings or caused school closings, we have also read numerous reports of municipal police and law enforcement sites being defaced, and other municipal…
Who stole data from Aircraft Carrier INS Vikrant? Espionage angle in Cochin Shipyard probe
Jijo Jacob reports: The data theft at INS Vikrant, India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC), has taken a national security dimension with reports saying that the espionage angle cannot be ruled out. The theft of computer hard discs, random access memory (RAM) and processor from the ship, which is being built at the Cochin Shipyard…
Former Brownsville fire chief found not guilty on security breach charges
Martha Ibarra reports an update to a case previously reported on this site: Carlos Elizondo, Brownsville’s former fire chief, has been found not guilty on six counts of computer security breach. In October of 2017, Carlos Elizondo was suspended after he was accused of assessing the emergency reporting system for Brownsville fire without consent. Read…