The City of Norman, Oklahoma has suspended its online portal for paying utility bills after they were notified of a potential security incident involving Click2Gov software by CentralSquare Technologies. At this point, the city seems to have had enough with Click2Gov security issues. The city is currently in the process of switching over to another…
Category: U.S.
Two former Twitter employees and a Saudi national charged in plot to spy on users for Saudi government
From the U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of California: SAN FRANCISCO –Ali Alzabarah, Ahmad Abouammo, and Ahmed Almutairi, a/k/a Ahmed Aljbreen, were charged for their respective roles in fraudulently accessing private information in the accounts of certain Twitter users and providing that information to officials of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, announced United States…
Schools in Connecticut and Mississippi report ransomware attacks
Mike Savino and Kaitlyn Naples report: Another school system in the state is dealing with a ransomware attack. Watertown’s Superintendent of Schools Rydell Harrison confirmed that staff discovered the attack last Thursday. Because school officials found the hack quickly, Harrison said “at this time there is no indication that our web-based systems that house student…
Ransomware Hit Case Management Provider TrialWorks. What Happens Next?
Victoria Hudgins reports: Add case management platform TrialWorks to the laundry list of companies and public sector agencies that were struck and paralyzed by a cyberattack this year. And unless lawyers backed up their client files to a separate storage network, they could be frozen out of their data by TrialWorks’ problems. Still, experts say there are ways to mitigate the damage….
“Crafty Cockney” loses extradition appeal; closer to standing trial in U.S. for alleged role in “thedarkoverlord” attacks
Nathan Wyatt, the 38 year-old U.K. resident known as “Crafty Cockney” on AlphaBay market, has lost his bid to convince the High Court to overturn a lower court’s ruling that he should be extradited to the U.S. Today’s ruling means that Wyatt is one step closer to being extradited to stand trial in federal court…
Bill to Establish Data Protection Agency Introduced in Congress
From the good folks at EPIC.org: Representatives Eshoo and Lofgren have introduced the Online Privacy Act, a comprehensive framework for data protection in the United States. The bill would establish a data protection agency, create meaningful privacy safeguards for consumers, and hold companies accountable for the collection and use of personal data. The bill is based on Fair…