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CA: Panama-Buena Vista School District ransomware attack will delay report cards

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Dissent

23ABC reports: The Panama-Buena Vista School District said that due to the recent ransomware attack, teachers will not be able to get report cards out on time. On Jan. 10, the district was hit with a cyber ransomware attack that caused a technology and phone outage at multiple schools. Read more on Turnto23.com.

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Foreign country hacks New Mexico Public Regulation Commission system

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Dissent

Victoria Shupryt reports: The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission is investigating after a foreign country hacked its network internet and intranet system, according to officials. A spokesperson for the FBI says the agency is also involved. Read more on KOAT.

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WV: Recovery continues in Wood County schools after 2019 ransomware attack

Posted on January 12, 2020 by Dissent

Shauna Johnson reports: The new year is underway in public schools in Wood County with recovery work still continuing following last fall’s ransomware attack that knocked the entire school system offline. “Everything’s up and running at this time, but we’re still working through a couple of kinks in our technological systems,” Will Hosaflook, Wood County superintendent…

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Texas school district loses $2.3 million from phishing scam

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Dissent

KSAT reports: Manor Independent School District, just east of Austin, is out of $2.3 million from a phishing scam. Investigators say the phishing email was sent to multiple people at the school district and it was a single person that responded. The money was sent through three separate transactions. Read more on KSAT.

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Amazon fires employees for leaking customer email addresses and phone numbers

Posted on January 10, 2020 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: Amazon  has fired a number of employees after they shared customer email address and phone numbers with a third-party “in violation of our policies.” The email to customers sent Friday afternoon, seen by TechCrunch,  said an employee was “terminated” for sharing the data, and that the company is supporting law enforcement in their prosecution. Read…

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A billion medical images are exposed online, as doctors ignore warnings

Posted on January 10, 2020 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports on a problem that has been documented and headlined, but continues to grow instead of shrink: …. Greenbone found 24 million patient exams storing more than 720 million medical images in September, which first unearthed the scale of the problem as reported by ProPublica. Two months later, the number of exposed servers had increased…

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