U.S. government contractor Conduent, which provides technology to support services such as child support and food assistance, has confirmed that a recent outage was caused by a cybersecurity incident.
Conduent confirmed the disruption, which left some U.S. residents without access to support payments, to TechCrunch on Tuesday but declined to say whether the outage was related to a compromise of its systems.
Read more…
Source: TechCrunch News
Related:
- Hacker claims to have hacked the FBI, but it wasn’t
January 5, 2017
A hacker yesterday claimed to have hacked the FBI’s website running on Plone CMS, but it seems it wasn’t hacked using any zero-day vulnerability in Plone. We contacted Plone security team and updated this story (see below) with official statements.A hacker, using Twitter handle CyberZeist, has claimed to have hacked the FBI’s website (fbi.gov) and ...
- 11 Gigabytes of Sensitive Data Belonging to US DoD Staff Exposed
January 5, 2017
Personal details of doctors who are deployed in the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM or SOCOM) have been exposed due to a security vulnerability discovered in a server operated by health services contractor Potomac Healthcare Solutions. MacKeeper Security Researcher Chris Vickery discovered in late December that Potomac, which provides healthcare workers to the government through ...