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20 Mar

Attack Surface, Vulnerabilities Increase as Orgs …

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans In typical fashion, attackers are gearing up to take advantage of the surge in teleworking prompted by the pandemic. The speed at which organizations are being forced to respond to the...
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11 Mar

#comptia | #ransomware | Councils’ parking app hit by ransomware attack

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Five days into an outage, the maker of PayMyPark – a parking payment app used by Wellington, Hutt, Tauranga, Christchurch, Dunedin and other city councils – has admitted it was the...
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6 Mar

#nationalcybersecuritymonth | Ransomware attack on sheep farmers shows there’s no room for woolly thinking in cyber security

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans While many Australians were preoccupied with panic-buying toilet paper, sales of another commodity encountered a very different sort of crisis. Wool sales were severely disrupted last week by a ransomware attack...
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5 Mar

#nationalcybersecuritymonth | Ryuk ransomware attack forced industrial conglomerate EMCOR to shut down IT systems

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Ryuk ransomware attack forces EMCOR to shut down some IT systems EMCOR, a US-based Fortune 500 industrial conglomerate, was forced to shut down some of its IT systems last month following...
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2 Mar

#deepweb | Home Affairs dials up attack on dark web

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Home Affairs boss Mike Pezzullo has decried the “demonically evil” dark web amid a push for greater powers to fight online crime. The Morrison government is considering giving the nation’s top...
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23 Feb

#comptia | #ransomware | Police evidence lost in Stuart hack attack, six suspected drug dealers walk free

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans STUART, Fla. — At least six suspected drug dealers walked away free after Stuart prosecutors were forced to drop cases for lack of evidence. The problem? The evidence is currently sitting...
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20 Feb

ISS World “malware attack” leaves employees offline – Naked Security

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Global facilities company ISS World, headquartered in Denmark, has shuttered most of its computer systems worldwide after suffering what it describes as a “security incident impacting parts of the IT environment.”...
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16 Feb

#speeddating | #tinder | #pof | #blackpeoplemeet | The Bachelorette NZ episode 12: Attack of the (hot) intruders

SPOILER ALERT: If you’ve not seen tonight’s episode of The Bachelorette NZ and want to do so without knowing anything of the foibles of the blokes vying for the affections of Bachelorettes Lesina Nakhid-Schuster and Lily McManus, do not even...
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8 Feb

#school | #ransomware | Ryuk Ransomware behind Attack on Florida Library System

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans (TNS) — The cyberattack that took down public-access computers at Volusia County, Fla., libraries last month involved ransomware that has elicited millions of dollars in ransom payments from governments and large businesses. Volusia...
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5 Feb

#school | #ransomware | Ransomware Attack on Hospital Shows New Risk for Muni-Bond Issuers

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers have finally done what bond issuers may have feared most from cyber criminals. A ransomware attack on Pleasant Valley Hospital in West Virginia was partly responsible for the hospital’s breach...
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