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Chesterfield County Public Schools battles hackers as school year begins

Posted on September 11, 2020 by Dissent

WAVY reports: Unknown users are entering Chesterfield County Public School virtual classrooms – a trend concerning parents as the school year is barely underway. 8News spoke with the parent of a freshman at Thomas Dale High School who recorded an incident involving an anonymous user in his virtual math class. Nicole Martin says the unidentified…

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IA: Fort Dodge Community School District to reopen after cyberattack

Posted on September 11, 2020 by Dissent

KCCI reports: The Fort Dodge Community School District will be back in session Friday after a cyberattack forced the closure of the school Thursday. Superintendent Jesse Ulrich confirmed that the district experienced a cyberattack Wednesday. Ulrich said the attack compromised its phones and internet. The problem has since been resolved. Read more on KCCI. It is…

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Hackers shutdown first day of Toledo Public Schools’ online classes

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Dissent

Melissa Voetsch reports: Toledo Public Schools experienced a computer hacking on its first day of online learning. According to district administrators, the day started well with students and staff signing on, but around noon, they received word that the system had been hacked. The district immediately shut down its system and brought in the FBI…

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SC: Pickens County School District internet outage caused by cyberattack, district says

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Dissent

Stephanie Towers reports: An Upstate school district dealt with an internet outage Tuesday morning. The Pickens County School District said the outages on school and student devices were caused by a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDOS) attack on servers tasked with running Pickens County School District Online Services. “I want to be clear it wasn’t a DDOS…

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Prison phone service Telmate exposes messages, personal info of millions of inmates and their contacts

Posted on September 6, 2020 by Dissent

Paul Bischoff reports: Telmate, a service used by incarcerated inmates at US prisons to communicate with their friends and loved ones, has exposed a database containing tens of millions of call logs, private messages, and personal information about inmates and their contacts. The database was exposed on the web without a password or any other…

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Russian National Indicted for Conspiracy to Introduce Malware into a Computer Network

Posted on September 5, 2020 by Dissent

One of the big stories this week concerned a failed attempt to bribe a Tesla employee to inject malware into Tesla’s system. The attempt failed because the employee reported what was going on.  From the U.S. Department of Justice: A federal grand jury in the District of Nevada returned an indictment today charging a Russian…

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