Stephen Paulsen reports: An Austin-based tech company may be liable to investors after it suffered a major security breach that caused its stock price to plummet, a federal judge ruled. Although that company, SolarWinds, was itself a victim of the breach, the company may had acted recklessly in protecting its software, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman…
Connecticut’s Bradley Airport Website Hit by DDoS; Russia’s Rosaviatsia suffers significant cyberattack
I attack you. You attack me. We both attack too easily. Too easily, but don’t you know I hate you, and that’s all I know. — lyrics never written by Art Garfunkel for his song, “All I know.” Insurance Journal reports: Connecticut officials said they were monitoring a cyberattack Tuesday that attempted to crash the…
AcidRain | A Modem Wiper Rains Down on Europe
Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade reports: Executive Summary On Thursday, February 24th, 2022, a cyber attack rendered Viasat KA-SAT modems inoperable in Ukraine. Spillover from this attack rendered 5,800 Enercon wind turbines in Germany unable to communicate for remote monitoring or control. Viasat’s statement on Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 provides a somewhat plausible but incomplete description of…
Ph: Smartmatic admits ‘data leak’ but not related to 2022 polls
Third Anne Peralta-Malonzo reports the latest into the investigation into claims of a Comelec leak. SMARTMATIC Inc., the country’s major provider for the upcoming 2022 automated elections, has admitted data leak from its system but assured that it is not related to the polls, Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairperson Saidamen Pangarungan said Friday, April 1,…
If You Came Here Looking for Information on a Class Action Settlement?
A number of people have been posting comments or actually calling me about class action lawsuit settlements. This site reports news about lawsuits and settlements. Sometimes this site may show up in a Google search for those looking for information about a breach or class action lawsuit, but this site only reports news. This site…
Hive claims Partnership HealthPlan of California as a victim
For a brief period yesterday, visitors to Hive ransomware’s leak site would have seen Partnership HealthPlan of California listed. According to the listing, the threat actors claim to have exfiltrated 850,000 unique records with name, Social Security Number, date of birth, address, contact information, and more. Hive claimed that they had 400 GB of stolen…