Jim McConnell reports: The local school system failed to properly redact personal information from a document requested through the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, inadvertently releasing to a parent last week the names of all Chesterfield County Public Schools students and employees who have reported testing positive for COVID-19. Chesterfield resident Grace Olsen, the mother…
Social-Media Data Leaks Draw Scrutiny From European Regulators
Catherine Stupp reports: Facebook Inc., Clubhouse and Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn have stressed that recently reported data leaks involved information from public user profiles, not from security breaches. In the European Union, where privacy laws require businesses to protect even publicly available personal data, that distinction may not relieve them of responsibility. Read more on WSJ.
Cyber agency asks Indian FB users to enhance account privacy after global data leak
The Tribune reports: Country’s cyber security agency CERT-In has advised Facebook users to strengthen their account privacy settings after a recent global ‘data scraping’ incident in the social media platform was detected that affected about 61 lakh Indians. “As the Facebook platform evolves and grows, parts of your account could be public. Data could also…
Brit authorities could legally do an FBI and scrub malware from compromised boxen without your knowledge
Gareth Corfield comments: UK authorities could lawfully copy the FBI and forcibly remove web shells from compromised Microsoft Exchange server deployments – but some members of the British infosec industry are remarkably quiet about whether this would be a good thing. In the middle of last week the American authorities made waves after deleting web shells…
UK: University of Hertfordshire still hobbled by ransomware attack
Slightly more than one year after it managed to avoid an investigation by the ICO over its data protection practices, the University of Hertfordshire joined the ranks of the many educational institutions crippled by a ransomware attack. The attack reportedly occurred on April 14, and was reported on April 15. As of today, the university…
SK: State institution in Slovakia target of ransomware attacks
Irena Jenčová reports: The National Security Authority (NBÚ) registered a series of significant ransomware attacks on targets in Slovakia on Friday, that saw hackers request hundreds of thousands of euros for reopening the systems and restoring their full functionality. “At the moment, the National Security can confirm that these cyber-attacks have affected the information technology…