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Update on Los Angeles School District Massive Data Breach

Earlier this month the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) was hit by a cyber attack. The breach affected 24 million students and about 50,000 teachers. Now we are learning more about it. For students, the data includes: For teachers, similar data was breached but more teacher specific data. Part of the problem is that […]

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Security News Update for Week Ending June 21, 2024

Are You Prepared for Fifth Party Risk? Boeing and Airbus are in trouble, again. Except it is not them. Boeing and Airbus sell to airlines. Lets pick one at random – Delta. That is the first party. They buy their planes from, lets say, Airbus, a THIRD party. Both Boeing and Airbus use a FOURTH […]

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Security News Update for Week Ending June 14, 2024

Trump Tells Crypto Execs He Won’t Regulate Crypto if Re-elected Trump raised $12 million from crypto execs after he told them that if he is re-elected he would be the crypto-president and un/not regulate crypto. Telling people what they want to hear is always easy for politicians. He said that crypto is very important and […]

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Microsoft Didn’t Patch Bug for Years, Leaving Gov Systems Exposed Because It Could Hurt Sales

I don’t even know where to go with this other than to say, unfortunately, I am not surprised. Likely not patching a known bug is probably not illegal, as is not disclosing it. Roll back almost a decade, in 2016, whistleblower and security expert Andrew Harris was working for Microsoft. He was investigating a breach […]

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Security News Update for the Week Ending June 7, 2024

Trump Decides to Join TikTok Instead of Banning It I know that politicians are hypocritical; it just comes with the game. When Trump was president, he attempted to ban TikTok via an executive order that he signed because it was a national security risk. This year Congress passed a law that would ban TikTok as […]

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US Water, Other Utilities Under Attack

Unfortunately, other than the very large water and other utilities, most utilities do not have the money, manpower or desire to secure their networks. We continue to hear more stories of successful attacks. In April a Russia-linked hacking group, the Cyber Army of Russia, claimed responsibility for an attack on a water and wastewater system […]

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