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Rural Jackson County, Ga., recovering from Ryuk ransomware attack after paying $400,000 ransom

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Dissent

On March 6, Benjamin Freed reported: Computer systems in rural Jackson County, Georgia, were knocked offline over the weekend after being hit with a ransomware virus. The entire county government’s email system is offline, and some departments, including law enforcement, have had to resort to conducting their operations entirely on paper. “Everything we have is…

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Citrix discloses security breach of internal network

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: American software company Citrix disclosed today a security breach during which hackers accessed the company’s internal network. In a short statement posted on its blog, Citrix Chief Security Information Officer Stan Black said Citrix found out about the hack from the FBI earlier this week. Read more on ZDNet.

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Tufts expelled a student for grade hacking. She claims innocence

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker dives into the case of a Tufts veterinary student expelled for allegedly hacking Tufts to try to alter grades.  As he reports in his meticulously researched and detailed piece: The case Tufts presented seems compelling, if not entirely believable. There’s just one problem: In almost every instance that the school accused Filler of…

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Ex-BPD cop misused badge meet women. There are now at least 150 victims, chief says

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Dissent

Jessica DeLeon reports: Former Bradenton police sergeant Leonel Marines was suspended for three days without pay in 2012, after the first time he was caught misusing police databases and his badge to target women for dates or to have sex with them, according to internal affairs records. The pattern of abuse would continue for six…

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FTC Proposes to Add Detailed Cybersecurity Requirements to the GLBA Safeguards Rule

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Dissent

Mike Nonaka, Libbie Canter, David Stein and Sam Adriance of Covington & Burling write: On March 5, 2019 the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published requests for comment on proposed amendments to two key rules under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”). Most significantly, the FTC is proposing to add more detailed requirements to the Safeguards Rule, which…

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Hackers Broke Into Admissions Databases at 3 Colleges — and Then Offered to Sell Applicants Their Files

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Dissent

Eric Hoover reports: On Thursday morning a high-school senior in Texas received a strange email. “You are now presented with a unique opportunity,” it said, “to purchase your entire admissions file.” The message appeared to have been sent by Grinnell College, to which the student had applied. But Grinnell hadn’t sent the message; apparently, someone…

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