Eric Geller reports: The Biden administration and dozens of foreign allies will pledge this week never to pay ransoms to hackers who lock up their national governments’ computer systems, hoping to discourage financially motivated cyber criminals from seeing those systems as attractive ransomware targets. The joint promise will occur as part of the third annual…
Category: Of Note
Hackers escalate: leak 200k CCSD students’ data; claim to still have access to CCSD email system
Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada informed parents and employees that they became aware of a “cybersecurity incident” on October 5. Three weeks later, the district had not fully recovered from the attack and parents were complaining about the district’s lack of transparency about what was stolen in the breach. Disturbingly, while the district…
France says Russian state hackers breached numerous critical networks
Bill Toulas reports: The Russian APT28 hacking group (aka ‘Strontium’ or ‘Fancy Bear’) has been targeting government entities, businesses, universities, research institutes, and think tanks in France since the second half of 2021. The threat group, which is considered part of Russia’s military intelligence service GRU, was recently linked to the exploitation of CVE-2023-38831, a remote…
Exclusive: Clark County School District student data begins to leak; CCSD doesn’t comment
Tiffany Lane reports: Problems continue for Clark County School District families and staff about a week and a half after being notified of a cyber security incident that happened earlier this month. Some parents say they received an email Wednesday with private information about their children. While they do not know if it is related to the…
October 31: OCR Webinar on The HIPAA Security Rule Risk Analysis Requirement
From HHS OCR: OCR Webinar on The HIPAA Security Rule Risk Analysis Requirement Threats and vulnerabilities to electronic protected health information (ePHI) in today’s healthcare environment are numerous and varied. ePHI is under constant threat from malicious insiders selling PHI for financial gain, sophisticated hackers seeking to compromise healthcare systems and blackmail them with ransomware,…
1Password, Cloudflare affected by Okta compromise
Jonathan Greig reports: Password manager 1Password and cybersecurity and networking giant Cloudflare were targeted by hackers following the breach affecting single sign-on provider Okta, according to statements from both companies. First reported by Ars Technica and later confirmed in a blog post directly from company chief technology officer Pedro Canahuati, 1Password said it detected suspicious activity on its Okta instance that…