Kelly Ng reports: Hackers broke into a Meridian Secondary School website last month, prompting the school to make a police report. The Young Illustrator Award site, which hosted an online art competition open to primary and secondary school students, was hacked on August 30 and has been taken down, the school said in a media statement on…
Update on case involving VT workers’ information being phished
Mike Donoghue reports a follow-up to a January 2016 phishing incident previously noted on this site: Two Nigerians, indicted in Vermont on federal charges of conspiracy to file fraudulent tax returns, stole personal identification information from hundreds of Vermont state employees and other government workers, a prosecutor said Wednesday in U.S. District Court. Assistant U.S….
Moscow Court Sentences ‘Shaltai-Boltai’ Hackers To Prison
RadioFreeEurope RadioLiberty reports: A Moscow court has sentenced two Russian hackers to three years in prison each for breaking into the e-mail accounts of top Russian officials and leaking them. Konstantin Teplyakov and Aleksandr Filinov were members of the Shaltai-Boltai (Humpty Dumpty in Russian) collective believed to be behind the hacking of high-profile accounts, including…
Hackers attacking US and European energy firms could sabotage power grids
Alex Hern reports: A hacking campaign is targeting the energy sector in Europe and the US to potentially sabotage national power grids, a cybersecurity firm has warned. The group, dubbed “Dragonfly” by researchers at Symantec, has been in operation since at least 2011 but went dark in 2014 after it was first exposed, secretly placing…
Community Memorial Health System in Ventura suffers data security breach
Robert Shutt reports: The Community Memorial Health System in Ventura has sent out a notice regarding a data security breach involving patient information. A CMHS employee’s email account was compromised by a phishing email and on June 23 the employee saw irregularities in their account and notified the CMHA administration. Read more on Pacific Coast Business…
77% of Educational Institutions Are not Prepared for IT Risks, Says Netwrix Survey
I generally don’t put a helluva lot of stock in survey data, but the education sector has been so behind the 8-ball when it comes to data security, that I fear these results are accurate. Netwrix did a survey and here are some of their key findings for the education sector: More than three…