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Ridgewood NJ, according to Ridgewood School Superintendent Mark Schwarz a cyber attack was attempted district’s computer network early on Tuesday morning, Election Day ,November 5th .There was limited data exposure and the cyberattack appears to have been repelled.
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Ridgewood NJ, In a significant cyberattack, hackers have stolen phone records from nearly all of AT&T’s 110 million wireless customers, the company confirmed on Friday. This breach adds to a growing list of cyberattacks targeting businesses and government agencies.
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Westwood NJ, Two hospitals in New Jersey are currently unable to admit new patients following a ransomware cyberattack that potentially exposed patient information. The affected hospitals, Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center in Montclair and Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center in Westwood, both under the Ardent Health Services umbrella, have implemented patient diversion measures, redirecting incoming patients to nearby emergency rooms.
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Linden NJ, The largest gasoline pipeline in America Colonial Pipeline is returning to service, according to the company that runs it, after a cyberattack choked fuel supplies across the eastern U.S. Shortages are likely to continue for some time however, as supplies got more sparse overnight with stations as far north as New Jersey affected.
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Ridgewood NJ, We all face increased digital risk and a new #cybersecurity reality due to COVID-19. Join us for a free webinar on Wednesday May 27th from 11:30-12:30pm and learn from a leader in the industry about email threats trending today and how to stay safe while working remotely.
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Michael Isikoff
Chief Investigative Correspondent
July 28, 2016
The FBI warned the Clinton campaign that it was a target of a cyberattack last March, just weeks before the Democratic National Committee discovered it had been penetrated by hackers it now believes were working for Russian intelligence, two sources who have been briefed on the matter told Yahoo News.
In a meeting with senior officials at the campaign’s Brooklyn headquarters, FBI agents laid out concerns that cyberhackers had used so-called spear-phishing emails as part of an attempt to penetrate the campaign’s computers, the sources said. One of the sources said agents conducting a national security investigation asked the Clinton campaign to turn over internal computer logs as well as the personal email addresses of senior campaign officials. But the campaign, through its lawyers, declined to provide the data, deciding that the FBI’s request for sensitive personal and campaign information data was too broad and intrusive, the source said.
A second source who had been briefed on the matter and who confirmed the Brooklyn meeting said agents provided no specific information to the campaign about the identity of the cyberhackers or whether they were associated with a foreign government. The source said the campaign was already aware of attempts to penetrate its computers and had taken steps to thwart them, emphasizing that there is still no evidence that the campaign’s computers had actually been successfully penetrated.
But the potential that the intruders were associated with a foreign government should have come as no surprise to the Clinton campaign, said several sources knowledgeable about the investigation. Chinese intelligence hackers were widely reported to have penetrated both the campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain in 2008.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fbi-hillary-clinton-cyber-attack-000000269.html
By Aliya Sternstein
In early February, FAA discovered “a known virus” spread via email on “its administrative computer system,” agency spokeswoman Laura Brown told Nextgov.
“After a thorough review, the FAA did not identify any damage to agency systems,” she added.
An upcoming competition among contractors to help run an FAA cybersecurity center might be altered as a result of the incident, according to an April 2 interim award notice that casually mentioned the attack.
FAA drew up a short-term agreement for incumbent contractor SRA International without reviewing competitors’ services to avoid disrupting operations while preparing a new solicitation, according to the notice.
“Due to a recent cyberattack, the FAA requires additional planning time to determine the impact to the competitive procurement’s requirements,” agency officials said in the notice.
