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The assistant principal of a high school in Florida has been charged with aggravated cyber-stalking. Duval County School Board Police arrested 42-year-old Kenyannya Wilcox on Friday over an alleged incident involving her former romantic partner. The defendant’s arrest report alleges that Wilcox was involved in a scheme that aimed to cause “adverse economic impact” to
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A cyber-attack on the Medical Review Institute of America (MRIoA) may have exposed the personal data of 134,571 individuals. MRIoA, which is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, said it was “the victim of a sophisticated cyber incident” discovered on November 9, 2021, that resulted in a threat actor’s gaining unauthorized access to its network and exfiltrating
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We live online these days, sharing everything from vacation pictures to what we eat for breakfast on the internet. The internet is also useful for daily activities, like buying groceries or paying bills. While it’s convenient to connect with people and complete tasks online, cybercriminals are eager to use the internet to steal financial or
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An Iranian state-sponsored actor has been observed scanning and attempting to abuse the Log4Shell flaw in publicly-exposed Java applications to deploy a hitherto undocumented PowerShell-based modular backdoor dubbed “CharmPower” for follow-on post-exploitation. “The actor’s attack setup was obviously rushed, as they used the basic open-source tool for the exploitation and based their operations on previous
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Cyber-physical systems (CPS) security company Claroty has announced the acquisition of healthcare IoT security business Medigate.  In a statement released January 10, Claroty said the deal would allow it to secure the Extended Internet of Things (XIoT) “by delivering unmatched visibility, protection, and threat detection for all connected organizations via one comprehensive solution.” Medigate, which is headquartered in New York’s
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The internet has opened up wonderful new possibilities in our world, making life easier on many levels. You can pay your bills, schedule your next family vacation, and order groceries with the click of a button. While the internet offers many positive benefits, it also has some negatives. Although not entirely used for illicit purposes,
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We don’t need no stinkin’ wall power as CES shows off the power and promise of usable long-range wireless charging While wireless charging has been around for some time (like charging my iPhone in my Toyota’s center console), CES is showcasing real power at real distances measured in meters, not centimeters. At one booth I
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Microsoft on Tuesday kicked off its first set of updates for 2022 by plugging 96 security holes across its software ecosystem, while urging customers to prioritize patching for what it calls a critical “wormable” vulnerability. Of the 96 vulnerabilities, nine are rated Critical and 89 are rated Important in severity, with six zero-day publicly known
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A police forensics expert has been sent to prison in the UK for downloading thousands of grim images from police computer systems onto his own computer. Darren Collins, 56, of Little Haywood near Stafford, admitted illegally accessing photographs of crime scenes and post-mortem examinations performed on murder victims.  The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Collins “used his digital
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If there’s a particularly clear picture that’s developed over the past couple of years, it’s that our privacy and our personal identities are worth looking out for. We have your back. And here’s why.  In the U.S., reported cases of identity theft continue to rise. Comparing the first three quarters of 2020 to the first
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Microsoft on Monday disclosed details of a recently patched security vulnerability in Apple’s macOS operating system that could be weaponized by a threat actor to expose users’ personal information. Tracked as CVE-2021-30970, the flaw concerns a logic issue in the Transparency, Consent and Control (TCC) security framework, which enables users to configure the privacy settings
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A man who worked at the Monsanto Company has admitted stealing a trade secret from his former employer and attempting to sell it to the People’s Republic of China. Xiang Haitao was employed by the American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation and its subsidiary, The Climate Corporation, as an imaging scientist from 2008 to 2017. The 44-year-old
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Threat hunters have shed light on the tactics, techniques, and procedures embraced by an Indian-origin hacking group called Patchwork as part of a renewed campaign that commenced in late November 2021, targeting Pakistani government entities and individuals with a research focus on molecular medicine and biological science. “Ironically, all the information we gathered was possible
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Cerberus Cyber Sentinel Corporation today announced its acquisition of an American cybersecurity operations and compliance company. The Arizona-based cybersecurity consulting and managed services firm said the decision to acquire True Digital Security was part of a strategy to bring together global security talent as partners. True Digital Security was founded in 1985 and currently has offices in West
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The digital security team at the U.K. National Health Service (NHS) has raised the alarm on active exploitation of Log4Shell vulnerabilities in unpatched VMware Horizon servers by an unknown threat actor to drop malicious web shells and establish persistence on affected networks for follow-on attacks. “The attack likely consists of a reconnaissance phase, where the
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A cyber-attack has forced the government of New Mexico’s most populous county to close most of its county buildings to the public. Bernalillo County had to take some of its IT systems offline on Wednesday after becoming the target of a digital assault that county officials suspect was a ransomware attack.  In a statement released Wednesday, the
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Your Cybersecurity Comic Relief  Why am I here?  If you’re reading these words, CONGRATULATIONS! You’ve made it to 2022! And even better, you found your way to ATR’s monthly security digest where we discuss our favorite vulnerabilities of the last 30 days. Feel free to pat yourself on the back, get yourself a nice cup of coffee, tea, LaCroix (you
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Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook, on Friday announced the launch of a centralized Privacy Center that aims to “educate people” about its approach with regards to how it collects and processes personal information across its family of social media apps. “Privacy Center provides helpful information about five common privacy topics: sharing, security,
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A mix-up at a school in Worcestershire, England, caused parents to receive the Covid-19 test results of other people’s children. The data breach, reported today by the Evesham Journal, occurred at co-educational secondary school and sixth-form college The De Montfort School (TDMS) in Evesham, which is part of the Four Stones Multi Academy Trust. Students returning