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Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) discloses data breach after ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) finally disclosed a data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after the June attack. In June a ransomware attack hit the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE), now the organization disclosed a data breach.

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14 UK schools suffer cyberattack, highly confidential documents leaked

CSO Magazine

That’s according to a report from the BBC which claimed that children’s SEN information, child passport scans, staff pay scales and contract details have been stolen by notorious cybercrime group Vice Society, known for disproportionately targeting the education sector with ransomware attacks in the UK and other countries.

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Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

Krebs on Security

Questions about who stole tax and financial data on roughly three quarters of all South Carolina residents came to the fore last week at the confirmation hearing of Mark Keel , who was appointed in 2011 by Gov. said investigators determined the breach began on Aug. Nikki Haley to head the state’s law enforcement division.

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The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet

Krebs on Security

AWMproxy, the storefront for renting access to infected PCs, circa 2011. In 2011, researchers at Kaspersky Lab showed that virtually all of the hacked systems for rent at AWM Proxy had been compromised by TDSS (a.k.a An example of a cracked software download site distributing Glupteba. Image: Google.com. ru and alphadisplay[.]ru,

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Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Babam’?

Krebs on Security

Since the beginning of 2020, Babam has set up numerous auctions on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Exploit , mainly selling virtual private networking (VPN) credentials stolen from various companies. com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.” com (2017).

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Happy 10th Birthday, Security Affairs

Security Affairs

I launched Security Affairs for passion in 2011 and millions of readers walked with me. Over the past decade, I have recovered tens of thousand stories focusing mainly on cybercrime, information warfare, hacktivism and computer security.

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Hackers threaten to leak a copy of the World-Check database used to assess potential risks associated with entities

Security Affairs

Compromised data vary by individuals and organizations, it includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers, and more. Curiously, in 2011, Thomson Reuters acquired World-Check, then in October 2018, Thomson Reuters closed a deal with The Blackstone Group.

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