Cybercrime
School Districts Become Major Cybercrime Targets
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Viewed as soft targets, schools have been hit by 533 cyber incidents since 2016. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards declared an emergency after ransomware attacks on three school districts.
Cybercrime
Amazon-Owned ‘Ring’ Sets Off Privacy Alarms
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Amazon’s ownership of home-security company Ring is making headlines because of the partnership formed by the company with police departments all over the country.
Cybercrime
Hackers Exploited ‘Simple Software’ Glitch at Capital One Bank, Conference Told
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The recent data breach, which endangered 106 million files, shows why cybersecurity is too important to be left just to the technicians, participants at a New York City conference heard Wednesday.
Cybercrime
Hacker Accesses Data on 106M Capital One Customers
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Paige Thompson, 33, was arrested by federal agents in Seattle. She is accused of breaking through a Capital One firewall to access customer data that the bank had stored on Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud service.
Cybercrime
Data of 2,500 L.A. Police Officers Exposed in Data Breach
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Personal information of 2,500 Los Angeles police department officers and 17,500 people who had applied to join the force were exposed in a data breach. Cities and law enforcement agencies have been increasingly targeted by hackers in recent years.
Cybercrime
Cyberbullying Rises Among Young Adults: Federal Report
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A new study from the National Center for Education Statistics has found that online bullying is becoming more prevalent among middle and high school students, even though overall bullying has declined in the past few years.
Cybercrime
Hacker Ransom Demands From Cities Are Growing
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“It is quite profitable for the actors to conduct these sorts of attacks on victims,” said FBI agent Adam Lawson. “At the end of the day, people are paying the ransoms.” The FBI received nearly 1,500 ransomware reports last year.
Policy & Politics
Trump Administration Considers Encryption Crackdown
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The encryption challenge, which the government calls “going dark,” was the focus of a National Security Council meeting Wednesday morning that included the No. 2 officials from several key agencies, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Cybercrime
US Terrorism Law ‘Unprepared’ for Cyber Threat: Paper
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Foreign entities that threaten U.S. economic, governmental, and social infrastructure through cybersabotage should be classified as “terrorist” to give authorities the same powers to that they have to intervene against violent terror groups, says a forthcoming article in the Indiana Law Journal.
Cybercrime
Small FL City to Pay $600K Ransom to Hackers
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City leaders in Riviera Beach, Fl., met this week for an extraordinary vote to pay a large ransom to hackers who paralyzed the city’s computer systems. The city’s insurance carriers will pay 65 Bitcoin, about $592,000.