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Yet another city reports a Click2Gov breach

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Dissent

Another city has reported a breach involving Click2Gov software by CentralSquare Technologies.  WTVY reports Dothan, Alabama has joined more than four dozen other cities using Click2Gov that have experienced breaches involving payment card data of residents using online payment portals: “It has come to the City of Dothan’s attention that CentralSquare, the third-party processor of…

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Veterans Affairs put millions of people at risk of identify theft, audit finds

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Dissent

Eric Yoder reports: The Veterans Affairs Department, while responding to requests for records on veterans’ benefits claims, “put millions of people at risk of identity theft” by not deleting personally identifying information on other people from those records, an audit has found. That information included names and Social Security numbers of people such as other…

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Louisiana OMV offices to remain closed Thursday morning

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Dissent

 KPLC TV reports that the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles remains closed this morning following Monday’s ransomware attack. Yesterday, KPLC posted a list of all of the state offices that had been impacted by the attack: Office of Motor Vehicles Around 79 OMV offices went offline Monday due to the ransomware attacks and ceased any…

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Akron man sentenced to six years in prison for launching denial of service attacks that shut down web sites for the city of Akron and the Akron Police Department

Posted on November 20, 2019 by Dissent

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio, an update on a previously disclosed prosecution: An Akron man was sentenced to six years in prison for launching denial of service attacks that shut down web sites for the city of Akron and the Akron Police Department. James Robinson, 33, previously pleaded guilty…

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UK public sector IT chiefs shrug off breach threats: The data we hold isn’t that important

Posted on November 20, 2019 by Dissent

Gareth Corfield reports: Half of UK public sector IT chiefs think the data they’re responsible for protecting is less valuable than private sector information, according to a survey by antivirus firm Sophos. Just over 50 per cent of 420 senior managers quizzed by Sophos agreed with the statement: “The data held by my organisation is…

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Ransomware hits Louisiana state government systems

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: A ransomware infection today took down IT systems and websites managed by the Louisiana state government, Governor John Bel Edwards revealed in a series of tweets. “Today, we activated the state’s cybersecurity team in response to an attempted ransomware attack that is affecting some state servers. The Office of Technology Services identified…

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