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• Officials say at least 20 Texas government entities targeted in cyber attack August 18, 2019
  The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) said in a statement that officials from state agencies were responding to the cyber attack, but did not release the identities of affected agencies. "Currently, DIR, the Texas Military Department, and the Texas A&M University System’s Cyberresponse and Security Operations Center teams are deploying resources to the most […]
• The Army is Falling Behind on Staffing Cyber Units, GAO Says August 17, 2019
  The Army is struggling to staff, train and equip its newly activated cyber and electronic warfare units, and officials haven’t assessed how those challenges will impact the Pentagon’s digital capabilities, according to a congressional watchdog. The Army activated two digital warfare units last year despite significant personnel shortages, auditors said, and officials are struggling to […]
• Get those 8GB files ready: DISA launches new unclassified file transfer system August 17, 2019
  A new file transfer system for unclassified Department of Defense material reached initial operating capability Thursday. The DOD Secure Access File Exchange (SAFE) will replace the current system, which was developed by the Army and has the same name. The first version of SAFE was designed for a smaller set of users, and the new […]
• Canadian city loses big money in phishing scam August 17, 2019
  Saskatoon Mayor Charlie Clark -- seen here in March 2019 at the Juno Awards -- has warned of the dangers of identity theft (AFP Photo/Tom Szczerbowski) Ottawa (AFP) - The city of Saskatoon in Canada's western prairies has lost more than Can $1 million to a fraudster posing as a construction executive, in the latest […]
• Decade-Long Bank Account Hacking Scheme Gets Fraudster 57 Months August 17, 2019
  In this case, the account hijacking attacks were the result of account info stolen from tens of thousands of businesses and individuals, information which allowed Elcock and his co-conspirators to defraud their victims. Hacking bank accounts for over 10 years "Between 2008 and 2018, ELCOCK, co-defendant Shoshana Marie McGill, and other co-conspirators participated in a […]
• Coinbase Reveals Password Glitch Affecting 3,500 Customers August 17, 2019
  Crypto exchange Coinbase disclosed a potential vulnerability Friday, announcing that a tiny fraction of its customers’ passwords were stored in plain text on an internal server log. In a post-mortem shared with CoinDesk, Coinbase outlined “a password storage issue,” impacting less than 3,500 customers (out of more than 30 million worldwide) that briefly resulted in […]