Josh Crabb reports: Electronic databases that contain personal information about some Manitoba students have been temporarily shut down following a security breach. The Maplewood system is run by an Ontario company and is used by 14 school divisions in Manitoba. There’s no evidence any data or personal information was compromised but some parents still have…
US militia group draws members from military and police, website leak shows
Jason Wilson reports: A Guardian investigation of a website leak from the American Patriots Three Percent shows the anti-government militia group have recruited a network across the United States that includes current and former military members, police and border patrol agents. But the leak also demonstrates how the radical group has recruited from a broad…
PA: Cyber attack affecting Hanover Area
Michael P. Buffer reports: A cyber attack has impacted Hanover Area School District and some neighboring school districts, Superintendent Nathan Barrett said Tuesday during a virtual school board meeting. The district experienced intermittent internet issues on Monday and Tuesday, Barrett said. Board President John Mahle contacted the Army National Guard to investigate with its domestic…
Russian Hacker Stole Identities of Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients in Sordid Scheme
Justin Rohrlich reports: A Russian hacker stole the identities of 22 of 75 living U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, using their pilfered personal data to buy tens of thousands of dollars worth of Apple products and luxury watches from American military exchanges, according to a Secret Service search warrant application obtained by The Daily Beast….
Not all cybercriminals are sophisticated
Jake Moore writes: While a lot of media coverage centers on how threat actors are becoming better at evading capture and generally deploy ever more sophisticated techniques, I wanted to tell a story where one criminal in particular was anything but sophisticated. Before I joined ESET, I spent 14 years working in the UK police force working…
Allergy and Asthma Associates in Roanoke Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charge; Enters into Civil Resolution Over Health Care Fraud Allegations
ROANOKE, Va. – Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar and Virginia Attorney General Mark G. Herring announced today the finalization of a $2.1 million civil resolution with Allergy and Asthma Associates Inc. [AAA], a Roanoke-based, family-owned medical practice that billed Medicare and Virginia Medicaid more than $600,000 for expensive asthma treatments in did not…