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
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…
Russian National Indicted for Conspiracy to Introduce Malware into a Computer Network
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…
Miami high schooler charged with cyberattacks that stopped online learning
Kevin Collier reports: Police have arrested a Florida high school student for alleged cyberattacks that rendered the Miami-Dade school district’s remote learning platform almost impossible to use. The student, an unnamed 16-year-old junior at the South Miami Senior High School, admitted to attacking the school’s My School Online platform, which is designed to let students attend…
6,000 Roper St. Francis patients’ info possibly breached in compromised email incident
Tony Fortier-Bensen reports: Roper St. Francis Hospital officials said on Thursday that 6,000 patients were affected by an incident where a employee’s email was accessed by someone without authorization and they gained access to personal medical records and information. The incident occurred between June 13 and June 17, but Roper St. Francis officials didn’t learn…
Oregon State University reports IT security incident
Oregon State University announced Thursday that personal information of some students and faculty may have been exposed during a recent IT security incident. A cybercriminal accessed an OSU Ecampus server that contained student and faculty directory information such as email addresses, phone numbers and mailing addresses. No social security numbers were compromised in the incident….