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Louisiana and Oregon warn that millions of driver's licenses were exposed in a data breach after a ransomware gang hacked their MOVEit Transfer security file transfer systems to steal stored data. The agency says there is no indication that Clop used, sold, shared, or released any of that data, so the stolen data may have been deleted as the ransomware actors promised in their announcement to delete any stolen government data.
The Oregon state employee pension fund is one of the largest investors, if not the largest, having committed $233 million to Novalpina Capital, the private equity firm, in 2017. Novalpina Capital has been saddled with both an internal dispute among its founding partners and an explosive report showing NSO Group's spyware has been widely misused around the globe.
My Applied Cryptography is on a list of books banned in Oregon prisons. It's not me -- and it's not cryptography -- it's that the prisons ban books that teach people to code. The subtitle is...
State's Department of Human Services Now Says 645,000 AffectedThe number of individuals affected by a phishing-related breach disclosed in March by the Oregon Department of Human Services has...
Oregon Department of Human Services officials say they are notifying about 645,000 clients whose personal information is at risk from a January data breach. read more
Incident Among Largest Health Data Breaches So Far in 2019The Oregon Department of Human Services is among the latest entities to reveal a phishing breach impacting the protected health...
This seems to have happened twice in two weeks. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....
ES&S admits a handful of systems were shipped with PCAnywhere tool A US voting machine manufacturer has admitted some of its systems sold in the early 2000s had a remote access tool installed.…
