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- Hackers exploiting bug in popular Trimble Cityworks tool used by local gov’tson 7 February 2025 at 22:17
Federal civilian agencies have been ordered to patch a vulnerability impacting Trimble Cityworks — a popular tool used by many governments to manage public infrastructure.
- Label maker Avery says ransomware investigation also found credit-card scraperon 7 February 2025 at 20:43
An investigation into a ransomware attack led label-maker Avery Products to also find malware that was skimming credit card details from transactions on its website, according to a data breach notification by the company.
- Student group sues Education Department over reported DOGE access to financial aid databaseson 7 February 2025 at 20:06
The University of California Student Association — which serves all of the system’s campuses statewide — is suing the Department of Education over reported access by Elon Musk’s DOGE workers to federal student aid databases.
- Phones, email, classes disrupted in University of The Bahamas ransomware attackon 7 February 2025 at 19:23
The University of the Bahamas, which serves thousands of students and is one of the Caribbean nation’s biggest employers, said several systems went offline after a ransomware attack.
- States prepare privacy lawsuit against DOGE over access to federal dataon 7 February 2025 at 15:32
More than a dozen state attorneys general say they plan to sue the Trump administration over the actions of Elon Musk’s DOGE team, including its access to private data federal payment systems.
