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Juniper Breach Mystery Starts to Clear With New Details on Hackers and U.S. Role

Posted on September 3, 2021 by Dissent

Jordan Robertson reports: Days before Christmas in 2015, Juniper Networks Inc. alerted users that it had been breached. In a brief statement, the company said it had discovered “unauthorized code” in one of its network security products, allowing hackers to decipher encrypted communications and gain high-level access to customers’ computer systems. Further details were scant,…

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US farm loses $9 million in the aftermath of a ransomware attack

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: A US farm lost a whopping $9 million due to a temporary shutdown of its farming operations following a ransomware attack earlier this year; the FBI said this week. The incident, which took place in January 2021 after hackers gained access to the farm’s internal network through compromised admin credentials, is part…

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Industry lobbies Congress to extend notification timeline after cybersecurity incidents

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Dissent

Maggie Miller reports: Key industry groups on Wednesday pushed to give organizations at least three days to report cybersecurity incidents to the federal government, effectively opposing Senate legislation that would give them 24 hours to report breaches. Read more on The Hill.

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Career Group, Inc. notifies more than 49,000 after paying ransom to threat actors

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Dissent

I haven’t seen any mention of this in news or on their web site, but Career Group Inc. suffered a ransomware attack recently and is notifying those impacted.  In a copy of the notification submitted to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, they report that on July 2, Career Group Companies detected potential unauthorized access to…

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Fired NY credit union employee nukes 21GB of data in revenge

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Dissent

Sergiu Gatlan reports: Juliana Barile, the former employee of a New York credit union, pleaded guilty to accessing the financial institution’s computer systems without authorization and destroying over 21 gigabytes of data in revenge after being fired. “In an act of revenge for being terminated, Barile surreptitiously accessed the computer system of her former employer, a New…

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Dallas police data loss nearly triple initial estimate

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Dissent

The Associated Press reports that the amount of data missing from Dallas’s computer database is almost triple the initial estimate of files lost during a data migration involving Dallas Police files. About 15 terabytes of police data are missing besides the 7.5 terabytes initially thought to be lost, city spokeswoman Janella Newsome said. Read more…

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