Cyware reports: The Lake City Police Department is investigating a ransomware attack on their city network systems that resulted in the shutdown of several emergency services. The ransomware used in the attack has been detected as ‘Triple Threat’. What happened? In a breach notification, the Lake City police have revealed that the attack occurred on…
Category: Government Sector
DPP employee who had ‘a nosey’ in murder file gets 11 month sentence
Tom Tuite reports: A civil servant in the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has been been given an 11-month sentence for disclosing sensitive information about the arrest of a suspect in a dissident republican murder case. Service officer Jonathan Lennon (35) from Clonee, Dublin 15, who admitted having a “nosey” in the…
UK: Recent enforcement actions by the ICO deal with employees behaving badly
From the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK, news about two cases involving employees behaving badly. One case involved a housing association employee snooping in records without justification, and the other involved a Restorative Justice Caseworker who sent personal data on victims and offenders to her home email address. A former customer services officer at…
The EU’s Embassy In Russia Was Hacked But The EU Kept It A Secret
Alberto Nardelli reports: The European Union’s embassy in Moscow was hacked and had information stolen from its network, according to a leaked internal document seen by BuzzFeed News. An ongoing “sophisticated cyber espionage event” was discovered in April, just weeks before the European Parliament elections — but the European External Action Service (EEAS), the EU’s…
NY: Broome County security breach put employees’ and clients’ personal information at risk
Katie Sullivan Borrelli reports: Broome County says an unauthorized individual may have had access to the personal information of county employees and individuals who receive the county’s care, including their Social Security numbers, medical records and bank account information. In a news release sent on its behalf by Mullen Coughlin LLC, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, the…
Cyber attack could keep county servers down for days
Luzerne County’s administration has shut down some computer servers and work stations to address a cyber attack discovered last weekend, officials said. On Wednesday morning, county Administrative Services Division Head David Parsnik said the clean-up process may take several days to complete. By the afternoon, the administration sent workers an email indicating the servers may…