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The New York City Department of Education says hackers stole documents containing the sensitive personal information of up to 45,000 students from its MOVEit Transfer server.The Clop ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the CVE-2023-34362 MOVEit Transfer attacks on June 5 in a statement shared with BleepingComputer, with the cybercrime gang saying it breached the MOVEit servers of "Hundreds of companies."
Hyundai and Kia cars were stolen 977 times in New York City in the first four months of 2023, and authorities have had enough. "This represents a roughly 660 percent increase in thefts of Kia and Hyundai vehicles as compared to those same months in 2022, when there were only 148 such thefts," blasts the complaint [PDF] filed with the United States District Court, Southern District of New York.
In an unprecedented and hotly debated move, the New York City Department of Education banned the use of Zoom, writing in an internal memo on April 3 that teachers were no longer allowed to use the platform at all. "We know the transition away from Zoom will take time for many educators and we will support them. We know maintaining continuity of teaching means it won't happen overnight. Less than 2 weeks ago, our heroic educators began transforming instruction for 1.1M kids, bringing the nation's largest public school system online. They rose to this challenge with grace, and our whole city is grateful for how they've learned to teach and lead remotely," Carranza wrote.
New York City is considering a law that could stop cellphone carriers and smartphone app vendors from selling their location data.
Dan Patterson spoke with the deputy CTO for the NYC mayor's office about taking a community-centered approach to digital transformation and cybersecurity, as well as its Moonshot Challenge.
The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) this week announced that a California man has pleaded guilty to hacking the websites for the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military...
