Between 2018 and the end of 2020, DataBreaches published dozens of news reports on municipal breaches involving CentralSquare’s ClicktoGov software. The software allows residents to pay utility bills or other municipal bills online. Now Top Class Actions reports that CentralSquare has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle litigation by some consumers. Consumers whose credit…
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Israel’s Health Ministry website down after Iranian cyberattack
Adir Yanko and Itamar Eichner report: A group of hackers affiliated with Iran carried out a cyberattack on the website of the Health Ministry on Sunday, intermittently restricting access to the site from abroad. Pro-Iranian group Al-Tahira claimed responsibility for the DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack, which disrupts a website’s normal traffic by overwhelming the target…
‘Cyber attack from outside Albania’, AKSHI blocks online services
The following is a machine translation of a post by Euronews Albania: The National Agency of the Information Society has announced that our country is facing a cyber attack. For this reason, online services and government systems are closed until the neutralization of these criminal acts. According to the National Information Agency, the sophisticated attack…
Rhode Island sewer-system operator hit by cyber attack
Paul Edward Parker reports: The Narragansett Bay Commission, which runs sewer systems in parts of the metropolitan Providence and Blackstone Valley areas, was hit by a ransomware attack on its computer systems. […] “Last week, the Narragansett Bay Commission identified a cybersecurity incident that involved the encryption of data on certain computers and systems in its…
Shanghai data breach exposes suppression of ‘white-hat’ security research in China
Jane Tang for RFA Mandarin reports: Ren, a U.S. citizen who has lived in China for decades, didn’t realize she was the victim of what could be the biggest data breach in Chinese history until she got a call from RFA. She held her breath as, one by one, her ID card number, date of…
DHS: Cyber Safety Review Board Releases Unprecedented Report of its Review into Log4j Vulnerabilities and Response
Report Includes 19 Specific Recommendations for Government and Industry WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the Cyber Safety Review Board’s (CSRB) first report, which includes 19 actionable recommendations for government and industry. The recommendations from the CSRB – an unprecedented public-private initiative that brings together government and industry leaders to…