Kendall Polidori and Mari Devereaux report: Eight days after the school fell victim to an attack by NetWalker, a group of data hackers, Columbia officials sent a collegewide email stating the college is “working diligently around the clock with outside professionals and law enforcement to protect its student community and employees.” The email said individuals…
FBI Warns Of Increasing Use of Trojans in Banking Apps
Akshaya Asokan reports: The FBI is warning that cybercriminals and fraudsters are increasingly targeting mobile banking apps with malware in order to steal credentials and conduct account takeover attacks. In a public alert published Wednesday, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center warns that fraudsters have increasingly used malicious apps as the COVID-19 pandemic has driven an increasing number of…
Knoxville ransomware attack shutters parts of city website
Teri Robinson reports: A ransomware attack took out parts of the Knoxville city website but did not compromise personal or financial information. The Tennessee city’s public safety operations were spared, Knoxnews cited Chief Operations Officer David Brace, deputy to the mayor, as saying. Brace said the fire department discovered the attack but didn’t disclose the amount or…
University of Missouri Health Care discloses 2019 breach
University of Missouri Health Care (MU Health Care) has today disclosed a breach that occurred in September 2019. According to a notification on their site, on September 21, 2019, they became aware that the email accounts of some students who had been seen by their health care system had been accessed without authorization. Those email…
UK: Flaw in property inventory website exposed thousands of users’ home contents
James Walker reports on an incident, which while unfortunate, provides us with an example of prompt incident response and thanking the researcher instead of shooting the messenger: A vulnerability in the website of Inventory Hive, a property inventory service, was leaking members’ personal information, including their name and address, along with internal and external property…
UK: Reading Crown Court: Hungerford man avoids jail for computer hacking
John Garvey reports: A computer hacker from Hungerford has narrowly avoided an immediate prison sentence. The 22-year-old walked from the dock at Reading Crown Court on Monday with a suspended sentence after a judge told him: “We don’t want people like you hacking into our computers and stealing our private information.” Jack Shepherd had previously…