Katherine Donnelly and Robin Schiller report: Schools are on alert to IT security risks around online classes as a Garda investigation gets under way into how a number of men gained unauthorised access to a video lesson for second-year students. The breach, at a Co Meath school on Wednesday, was compounded when the men engaged…
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Cybercriminals are Bypassing Multi-factor Authentication to Access Organisation’s Cloud Services
Graham Cluley writes: The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning to companies to better protect their cloud-based accounts after several recent successful attacks. According to an advisory published by CISA, an increasing number of attacks have succeeded as more employees have begun to work remotely with a variety…
Hackers leaked altered Pfizer data to sabotage trust in vaccines
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) today revealed that some of the stolen Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine candidate data was doctored by threat actors before being leaked online with the end goal of undermining the public’s trust in COVID-19 vaccines. EMA is the decentralized agency that reviews and approves COVID-19 vaccines in the European Union,…
Th: 3BB hackers dump customer data, Thai regulator seeks answers from businesses
It took a little time, but Thai news outlets or blogs are starting to headline some of the Thai hacks that previously were only being reported on DataBreaches.net. There have been new developments in the past 24 hours to note. Background On December 10, DataBreaches.net reported a hack and ransom demand by ALTDOS on Country…
Puget Sound Educational Service District reports data breach
Q13Fox reports: The Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD) sent out a notice to current and former students, and employees of King and Pierce County Schools, after learning of a data breach within their computer network. According to PSESD, they first learned of “unusual activity” in its network on or about July 25th of last year. Soon…
SolarWinds Says It Has Found Source of Massive Cyberattack
M. Corey Goldman reports: Security software provider SolarWinds (SWI) – Get Report revealed Tuesday that it has found the source of a highly sophisticated malicious code injection that it believes was used by the perpetrators of the recent cyberattack on the company and its clients, including federal government agencies. In a regulatory filing, SolarWinds said that it was…