From the U.S. Department of Justice: John Murray Rowe Jr., 67, of Lead, South Dakota, was sentenced today to 126 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release and a $25,000 fine for attempted espionage. The defendant was charged by indictment in December 2021 and pleaded guilty in April of last year to one count…
Category: Government Sector
MO: City of St. Joseph hit by cyberattack, data potentially acquired in breach
Cameron Montemayor reports: Multiple sources and documents obtained via public records requests indicate the city suffered a significant cyberattack in early June, an incident that crippled network services for an extended period of time and potentially exposed the personal data of thousands of residents, city officials confirmed Monday. The City of St. Joseph has been…
Vietnam’s national credit registration and reporting agency hacked; most of the population affected (2)
Some data breaches make headlines for the number of people affected globally, such as a Facebook scraping incident in 2019 that affected 553 million people worldwide. Then there are breaches that affect a country’s entire population or much of it, such as a misconfigured database that exposed almost the entire population of Ecuador in 2019,…
CISA orders federal agencies to patch Sitecore zero-day following hacking reports
Jonathan Greig reports: Federal civilian agencies have until September 25 to patch a vulnerability in popular content management system Sitecore after incident responders said they disrupted a recent attack involving the bug. Sitecore published a bulletin on Wednesday about CVE-2025-53690, which affects several of the company’s products. A key issue with the bug is the use of…
Department of State employee sentenced for transmitting national defense information to suspected Chinese government agents
Today’s reminder of the insider threat, from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia: ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A U.S. Department of State (DOS) employee was sentenced today to four years in prison for conspiring to collect and transmit national defense information to individuals he knew to be working for the government of…
CISA steps in to help Nevada state government recover from cyberattack
Jonathan Greig reports: Federal officials are working with Nevada’s state government to help it recover from a cyberattack discovered on Sunday. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said it has been working with the FBI and other agencies to help the state get back online safely while investigating the origins of the attack and rebuilding…