HUNTSVILLE, ONT. - A town in Ontario's Muskoka region has shared more details about a cybersecurity incident earlier this month. The Town of Huntsville says it was hit on March 10 by a ransomware attack, in which vital digital information is held hostage for payment. Denise Corry, the town's chief administrative officer, says an “unauthorized user” infiltrated the town's systems and data was compromised. It remains unclear if the compromised data includes personal information. Services...
The 15 birds have added a flash of colour to East Winch in Norfolk for many years. Pictured: Robert and Elaine Baldwin with Charles the peacock.
The Qilin ransomware group has targeted The Big Issue, a street newspaper sold by the homeless and vulnerable. Spost on Qilin's dark web leak site claimed the gang has stolen 550 GB of confidential data from the periodical's parent company. in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Planes flying around the Baltic Sea have been suffering technical problems caused by jamming since Sunday, with 1614 planes, mostly civilian, reporting problems since then
FBI: $336 million lost to internet crimes in 2023 Data released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows that Illinois experienced an increase in internet crimes last year. The FBI reports the number of victim complaints in Illinois rose 6% from 2022 to last year. There was also an increase in the amount of money lost by 20%. Nearly $336 million was lost to internet crimes in 2023. The top three types of internet scams in 2023 were investment...
Lab-grown meat is set to be unveiled in the UK for the first time this year by Owen Ensor and his London-based startup, Meatly. The product is not being created for humans but for the pet food industry instead - specifically for cats.Whilst the Department of Food has yet to officially approve it, it is expected to occur in the next three months. The first samples of the lab-manufactured chicken for cats were produced last week.The reasoning behind Ensor's new product is that it will provide cat...
Images that show what is reportedly a white colored Xbox Series X console without a disc drive have been posted on the internet. There's no word on when or if this Xbox console will launch.
The manufacturing sector in India has been the most targeted industry for ransomware extortion in 2023, Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 said in its recently released report, titled 'Ransomware Retrospective 2024: Unit 42 Leak Site Analysis and Incident Response report 2024.'As part of the Ransomware Retrospective, they studied 3,998 leak site posts from various ransomware groups. Leak sites are platforms where threat actors publicly disclose stolen data as a means of coercing victims into paying...
African subsea cable operator Seacom said that its services on its West African cable system were down, reports The Guardian. The company added that customers who use the cables were being redirected to the Google Equiano cable.Read Entire Article
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Outages have been reported in Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Burkina Faso.
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