Dara Bitler reports: The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office says a Nigerian man has been arrested more than three years after $850,000 was stolen from the Boulder Valley School District in an email scam. According to the arrest affidavit, Sherifdeen Mogaji, 39, was arrested on February 21 and booked into the Boulder County Jail on suspicion of theft…
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Thinking about cybersecurity is great, but are you prepared for your building burning down?
Let’s not forget the physical threats to protected health information. This news report about a fire in Hillsdale, New York destroying the Hillsdale Healthcare medical practice should give you pause. Is this scenario anywhere in your risk assessment? Heather Bellow reports on the damage to a strip mall from the fire, but I’m going to…
Israel says Hamas used ‘attractive’ women in thwarted cyberattack
AFP reports: Israel’s military said on Sunday it had thwarted an attempted malware attack by Hamas that sought to gain access to soldiers’ mobile phones by using seductive pictures of young women. The phones of a few dozen soldiers were affected, but the military “does not assess that there has been a substantial breach of…
Genesis market 2020 overview, a bazaar for buying data out of compromised computers.
Under The Breach explains: A group of sophisticated hackers team up to sell the data of computers they managed to infect. The site began operating around the beginning of 2019 and only let users with an invitation code to join (it maintains this exclusivity until today). To find a person who has invitation codes is…
Cal Poly’s website gave visitors a surprise: hardcore porn
Monica Vaughan reports: An official Cal Poly website for the San Luis Obispo university’s Orfalea College of Business has all the related links you would expect: course descriptions, career pages, student groups and … porn? For several months, it appears that people who clicked to learn more about a professional student group called Information Systems Association were…
Data of sainik schools admission test hacked
Lalit Mohan reports: Data regarding entrance test for admissions to sainik schools has been hacked. Several residents of the Kangra region received phone calls today, demanding money to help their wards clear the examination. Balbir Kumar, a resident of Lunj area, submitted a complaint to the SP in this regard. Balbir, while talking to The…