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A California university which is dedicated solely to public health research has paid a $1.14m ransom to a criminal gang in the hopes of regaining access to its data. The University of California San Francisco paid out in the apparently successful hope that the Netwalker group would send it a decryption utility for its illicitly encrypted files, which it referred to as "Data ... important to some of the academic work we pursue as a university serving the public good".
The San Francisco Employees' Retirement System this week disclosed a data breach that impacted over 70,000 of its members. According to the vendor, while it has no evidence that any data pertaining to SFERS members was removed from the server, it cannot confirm that the perpetrators did not access or copy the data.
The man accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox and the Formspring Q&A forum, and later selling the stolen data of hundreds of millions of users, has seen his trial disrupted a third time by the coronavirus pandemic. At a hearing on Tuesday, Judge William Alsup again delayed the US trial of alleged Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin until June 1; the third such delay since the COVID-19 virus appeared in San Francisco, where proceedings are unfolding.
The recently disclosed attack aimed at two websites pertaining to the San Francisco International Airport is the work of Russian hackers, ESET claims. In March, two SFO websites were found to have been compromised by hackers and injected with code designed to steal visitors' Windows login credentials.
Hackers managed to breach two websites pertaining to the San Francisco International Airport in March 2020, the airport has revealed. The incident involved SFOConnect.com and SFOConstruction.com, two low-traffic websites designed to keep visitors informed on a variety of SFO-related topics, such as the COVID-19 crisis, alternate AirTrain routing, airfield operations, airport construction contracts, and the like.
Both tested positive for COVID-19 after attending RSA in San Francisco. The two Exabeam employees who were diagnosed with coronavirus after attending the RSA tech conference, which ran from Feb. 24-28 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, are on the road to recovery.
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The city that gave us facial recognition tech says "not in my back yard".
San Francisco on Tuesday became the first US city to ban use of facial recognition technology by police or other government agencies. Backers of the legislation argued that using software and...
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