SSN reports: A technology outage that impacted rail operations for the Norfolk Southern Corporation late Friday evening on September 29, have been ruled not a cyber-attack following an update from the company on Saturday. That Friday evening, Norfolk Southern’s data center experienced an outage that impacted rail operations that included their dispatching system, train movements,…
HC3: Sector Alert Progress Software WS_FTP Critical Vulnerabilities
Progress Software WS_FTP Critical Vulnerabilities Executive Summary Progress Software, the maker of the MOVEit file transfer software which was widely exploited by the CL0P ransomware-as-a-service (Raas) group, has released a new advisory regarding multiple vulnerabilities in the WS_FTP Server, a file transfer product. Two of the vulnerabilities were rated as critical and are being tracked…
Russian married couple appeals court ruling to extradite them from Italy to France
TASS reports: A young married couple from St. Petersburg, who were detained in Italy under a Europol warrant that was issued at the request of France, are challenging an extradition ruling, Renato Musella, a lawyer for the couple, told TASS. He said they were detained in late August when they came for a vacation. “In…
Consumers’ Data Breach Suit Against T-Mobile Sent to Arbitrator
Christopher Brown reports: Two customers’ allegations that T-Mobile failed to protect their personal information in a data breach and exposed information allowing their Coinbase cryptocurrency account to be hacked will be heard by an arbitrator. The arbitration agreement between T-Mobile and plaintiffs Jorge and Marcos Rodriguez clearly delegated threshold questions of arbitrability to the arbitrator,…
IRS consultant charged in leak of tax returns for Trump, wealthy Americans
Devlin Barrett and Spencer S. Hsu report: A Washington-based consultant for the Internal Revenue Service was charged Friday with stealing the tax returns of former president Donald Trump and thousands of wealthy Americans in 2019 and 2020 and providing them to two news organizations that reported how little the super-rich pay in federal income taxes,…
Michigan woman accused of identity theft, posing as a nurse faces up to 20 years in prison
CBS reports: A Western Michigan woman is facing up to 20 years in prison in connection to a “nurse imposter” case where she is accused of using a real nurse’s identity to obtain jobs as a registered nurse, officials said. […] According to the indictment, Gallarzo allegedly used the Michigan licensing number and the name…