LAUSD says Vice Society ransomware gang stole contractors’ SSNs

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the second-largest school district in the United States, says the Vice Society ransomware gang has stolen files containing contractors’ personal information, including Social Security Numbers (SSNs). LAUSD also revealed that the threat actors were Read More …

37 million T-Mobile customers hacked in data breach

T-Mobile said a “bad actor” accessed personal data from 37 million current customers in a November data breach. In a regulatory filing Thursday, the company said the hacker stole customer data that included names, billing addresses, emails, phone numbers, dates Read More …

NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless data harvesting, again

A US intelligence boss has asked Congress to reauthorize a controversial set of powers that give snoops warrantless authorization to surveil electronic communications in the name of fighting terrorism and so forth. NSA director General Paul Nakasone told the Privacy Read More …

How Did the FBI Get a Tor User’s IP Address?

Polling the internet: what is the best way to de-anonymize a Tor user? Somebody over at the FBI definitely has a method, but they clearly aren’t planning on telling anybody anytime soon. Motherboard originally reported that the bureau has somehow Read More …

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration says flight personnel alert system not processing updates after outage

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) system that alerts pilots and other flight personnel about hazards or any changes to airport facility services and relevant procedures was not processing updated information, the civil aviation regulator’s website showed on Wednesday. In Read More …

The US government is building an AI sandbox to tackle cybercrime

A joint effort between the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) – housed within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an AI sandbox will be designed for researchers to collaborate and test Read More …

A UN committee is struggling to define what cybercrime is in upcoming treaty

A United Nations committee – whose members include delegates from the U.S., China and Russia — is meeting throughout this week and next to continue negotiations for a new international cybercrime treaty. Why it matters: The finished UN cybercrime treaty Read More …

Russian troll farms didn’t sway voters in 2016 election

A new in-depth study has concluded that the Russian government’s efforts to deploy troll farms on Twitter to sway the 2016 election did not have any measurable impact on the outcome of that race. The U.S. government has been largely Read More …

Iowa’s largest city cancels classes due to cyber attack

Iowa’s largest school district cancelled classes for Tuesday after determining there was a cyber attack on its technology network. Des Moines Public Schools announced Monday that classes would be cancelled for its 33,000 students after being “alerted to a cyber Read More …