The Middletown Press reports: An end-of-year ransomware attack, which disabled access to critical business systems and applications for Middletown Public Schools, underscored the need to upgrade both perimeter and endpoint security recently. The district operates an enterprise network connecting 14 buildings with a high-speed (1 Gbps) fiber optic network. Over 6,000 users access educational, business…
Category: Malware
Cyber-attack threat is costly for Modesto schools. The total estimate may surprise you.
Ken Carlson reports: The costs of combating a recent cyber attack and securing computer services against further attacks will easily exceed $1 million for Sylvan Union School District. According to a budget study in April, the Modesto school district amassed $475,700 in costs in eradicating two cyber-attack viruses that took down essential services in the…
Austrian construction group Porr hit by cyber attack
Kirsti Knolle reports: Austrian construction company Porr detected a cyber attack on its communication infrastructure on Thursday and its telephone lines and emails were disrupted, the company said. The disruption was caused by a virus, which has been identified, a company spokeswoman said. Read more on Reuters.
NY: North Country newspaper group faces Ryuk attack, but is it second attack or just more of the first?
Alec Johnson reports: The cyber attack that began at the Watertown Daily Times on Saturday reared its head again Thursday, but staff rallied to work without hard-wired internet to get the papers out. The cyber attack crippled the data infrastructure of Johnson Newspaper Corp., which publishes newspapers in Ogdensburg, Massena, Carthage, Malone, Oswego, Hudson, Catskill…
Hackers steal card data from 201 online campus stores from Canada and the US
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A group of hackers has planted malicious JavaScript code that steals payment card details inside the e-commerce system used by colleges and universities in Canada and the US. The malicious code was found on 201 online stores that were catering to 176 colleges and universities in the US and 21 in Canada,…
“60 Minutes” reports on ransomware this Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/PT
This Sunday evening, May 5, CBS’s Scott Pelley will be reporting on ransomware in a segment on “60 Minutes.” The segment includes some discussion of the Hancock Regional Hospital incident where the hospital forthrightly disclosed that it paid ransom to protect their patients from a crippling ransomware attack. Read and watch the show’s preview of…