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MN: Cyberattackers successfully phish numerous Hennepin County workers’ e-mails

Posted on August 10, 2018 by Dissent

Andy Mannix reports: Cyberattackers have infiltrated e-mail accounts for about 20 Hennepin County employees since late June, and may have accessed the private information of people who rely on the county’s services, county officials revealed Thursday. Using e-mails disguised as pay-raise notifications, a sophisticated phishing scam duped the employees into giving up their login information,…

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Amazon AWS error exposes info on 31,000 GoDaddy servers

Posted on August 10, 2018 by Dissent

Mallory Locklear reports: Data leaks are par for the course these days, and the latest company to be involved in one is GoDaddy. The company, which says it’s the world’s top domain name registrar with over 18 million customers, is the subject of a new report from cybersecurity firm UpGuard that was shared exclusively with…

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“Stevenkings” charged with creating “Medusa IRC Botnet DDoS” malware used against Bay Area company’s website

Posted on August 9, 2018 by Dissent

SAN JOSE – A federal grand jury in San Jose indicted Travis Cole Malone, Jr., on July 12, 2018, for conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse and for causing the transmission of code to damage protected computers, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John…

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Arrested at airport as he was leaving for Serbia: Hacker charged with hacking computer network of Bay area video-game company

Posted on August 9, 2018 by Dissent

SAN FRANCISCO – Martin Marsich made an initial appearance today on a criminal complaint charging him with crimes related to the illegal intrusion of the computer network of a Bay Area video-game company, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The allegations against…

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TX: MedSpring Urgent Care notifies 13,000 patients after phishing attack

Posted on August 9, 2018 by Dissent

As Protenus’s Q-2 report for health data breaches in the U.S. indicates, phishing continues to account for a significant percentage of reported breaches.  Here’s another phishing incident recently disclosed to HHS that will be in Protenus’s Q-3 report as affecting 13,034 patients: July 20, 2018 At MedSpring Urgent Care (MedSpring), we take the privacy and…

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Ransomware Strikes Computer Servers of Golfers’ Association

Posted on August 9, 2018 by Dissent

David Bisson reports: Digital attackers targeted the computer servers of a golfers’ association with ransomware and encrypted files stored on those assets. Staff at the Professional Golfers’ Association of America (PGA) discovered the attack on 7 August. When they attempted to access certain work files that morning, those documents generated a ransom note informing them…

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