At the end of October, the tiny South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu was hit by a cyberattack with devastating consequences. They officially acknowledged the incident as an attack on November 5. Now, almost a month later, they are still struggling to recover. Christopher Cottrell reports: One month after a cyber-attack brought down government servers and…
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Ca: Personal info of 5,000 Edmonton employees compromised in insider data breach
CTV reports: The city says staff were notified on Wednesday that employee information was the subject of a data breach last year. According to a written statement by Daryl Croft, branch manager of Open City and Technology (OCT), his branch discovered that records had been accessed by a former employee without authorization in May 2021….
ICE accidentally released the identities of 6,252 immigrants who sought protection in the U.S.
Hamed Aleaziz reports: Immigration and Customs Enforcement accidentally posted the names, birthdates, nationalities and locations of more than 6,000 immigrants who claimed to be fleeing torture and persecution to its website on Monday. The unprecedented data dump could expose the immigrants — all of whom are currently in ICE custody — to retaliation from the…
DOD Releases Path to Cyber Security Through Zero Trust Architecture
News from U.S. DoD: The Defense Department on Tuesday released its Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap, which spells out how it plans to move beyond traditional network security methods to achieve reduced network attack surfaces, enable risk management and effective data-sharing in partnership environments, and contain and remediate adversary activities over the next five years. “Zero…
Southampton County, Virginia reports ransomware incident (updated)
Add Southampton County in Virginia to any list you may be keeping of governments hit by ransomware. According to their notification: On September 6, 2022, a single server at Southampton was encrypted by a cyber criminal. Fortunately, Southampton fought off this cyber-attack with no interruption to essential County operations. However, after Southampton recovered from this…
Hacker breaks into Zwijndrecht police server (updated)
The Brussels Times reports: A hacker broke into the server of the Zwijndrecht police zone and leaked thousands of license plates, fines and even police reports, VTM Nieuws and Het Laatste Nieuws reported on Thursday this evening. […] VTM Nieuws and Het Laatste Nieuws reported that the hacker was able to see all data from…