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Puget Sound Educational Service District reports data breach

Posted on January 13, 2021 by Dissent

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…

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SolarWinds Says It Has Found Source of Massive Cyberattack

Posted on January 13, 2021 by Dissent

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…

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Email security firm Mimecast says hackers hijacked its products to spy on customers

Posted on January 13, 2021 by Dissent

Reuters reports: Email security provider Mimecast said on Tuesday that hackers had hijacked its products in order to spy on its customers. The company said it had been alerted to the attack by investigators at Microsoft and that “a sophisticated threat actor” had compromised the certificate used to guard connections between its products and Microsoft’s…

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Convicted Hacker Charged with Fraud and Identity Theft Committed While Incarcerated in Federal Prison

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Dissent

There’s an update to the case involving Ardit Ferizi, whose criminal history and conviction for hacking and providing material support to a terrorist organization have been covered previously.  Just last month, Ferizi had been sentenced to 20 years in prison, but was granted a reduction to time served plus 10 years supervised release, to be…

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Networking giant Ubiquiti alerts customers of potential data breach

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: Networking device maker Ubiquiti has announced a security incident that may have exposed its customers’ data. Ubiquiti is a very popular networking device manufacturer best known for its UniFi line of wired and wireless network products and a cloud management platform. Today, Ubiquiti began emailing customers to change their passwords and enable…

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Kaspersky Lab autopsies evidence on SolarWinds hack

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Dissent

Gareth Corfield reports: Kaspersky Lab reckons the SolarWinds hackers may have hailed from the Turla malware group, itself linked to Russia’s FSB security service. Referring to the hidden backdoor secretly implanted in SolarWinds’ Orion product, Kaspersky’s Georgy Kucherin wrote in a blog post on Monday: “While looking at the Sunburst backdoor, we discovered several features that overlap…

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