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Texas Teams Up with FireEye to Tackle Ransomware

Posted on September 17, 2020 by Dissent

This may help some Texas school districts and other public agencies in Texas.  I usually don’t post press releases that promote commercial services, but am making an exception because I like the idea that a state is trying to provide more proactive and defensive support to school districts as well as other state agencies: FireEye,…

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Two Alleged Hackers Charged with Defacing Websites Following Killing of Qasem Soleimani

Posted on September 15, 2020 by Dissent

Two alleged computer hackers were indicted in the District of Massachusetts on charges of damaging multiple websites across the United States as retaliation for United States military action in January 2020 that killed Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization. Behzad Mohammadzadeh (a/k/a “Mrb3hz4d”), believed to…

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School districts in New Jersey and California join the list of ransomware victims

Posted on September 15, 2020 by Dissent

Schools are off to a rough start this year. Apart from grappling with edtech and security issues in light of the increased use of virtual learning, school districts are being increasingly attacked by ransomware groups. These ransomware threat actors pose a double threat:  they  not only encrypt a district’s system(s) to make functioning impossible unless…

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West County provides notice of data breach last year; no identity theft reported so far

Posted on September 15, 2020 by Dissent

Sarah Haas reports: West County School District announced on Friday that, although it had experienced a possible data breach between Oct. 6 and Nov. 20 last year, to date it’s had no reports from anyone affected by that unauthorized access of information on a computer server used for summer school. Read more on Daily Journal…

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Veterans’ Social Security numbers leaked in data breach

Posted on September 14, 2020 by Dissent

Corinne Reichert reports: The personal information of around 46,000 veterans was exposed during a hack, the US Department of Veterans Affairs said Monday. One of the online apps for the VA Financial Services Center “was accessed by unauthorized users” who diverted payments that were meant to go to health care providers for veterans’ medical treatment. The…

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SC: In September, Roper St. Francis was busy sending notifications on two separate breaches

Posted on September 12, 2020 by Dissent

On September 3, ABC reported that Roper St. Francis was notifying 6,000 patients about a breach involving their protected health information. This week, you may have read that Roper St. Francis is notifying almost 93,000 patients. There are two unrelated incidents. The first involved the compromise of an employee’s email account in June that the…

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