LockBit ransomware demands $2 million for Pierce Transit data

The Pierce County Public Transportation Benefit Area Corporation Pierce Transit has fallen victim to a cyberattack using LockBit ransomware. Pierce Transit is a public transit operator in Washington state. The attack began on February 14, 2023, and required Pierce Transit to implement temporary...

Data Breach Exposes 1.6 Million Jobless Claims Filed in the Washington State

The Office of the Washington State Auditor SAO on Monday said it's investigating a security incident that resulted in the compromise of personal information of more than 1.6 million people who filed for unemployment claims in the state in 2020. The SAO blamed the breach on a software vulnerabilit...

Smartphone Election in Washington State

This year: King County voters will be able to use their name and birthdate to log in to a Web portal through the Internet browser on their phones, says Bryan Finney, the CEO of Democracy Live, the Seattle-based voting company providing the technology. Once voters have completed their ballots, the...

dahp.wa.gov XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.dahp.wa.gov/learn-and-research/architect-biographies/clifford-b-dobson!prettyPhoto/0,%3Ca%20onclick=%22alert%27OPENBUGBOUNTY%27;%22%3E/ Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Verification in progress Latest check for patch:| 30.10.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS...

Jail Authorities Mistakenly Early Released 3,200 Prisoners due to a Silly Software Bug

Washington State Department of Corrections DoC is facing an investigation after it early released around 3,200 prisoners over the course of 13 years, since 2002, when a bug was introduced in the software used to calculate time credits for inmates' good behavior. The software glitch led to a...

July 2013 Adobe Security Bulletins, Patches Released

Adobe today released its monthly round of security updates with patches available for Flash Player, Shockwave and ColdFusion. None of the vulnerabilities are being exploited in the wild, according to Adobe. The flaws in Flash Player and Shockwave could allow hackers to remotely install and run...

Adobe Patches ColdFusion Flaws Exploited in Wild

Exploits for vulnerabilities in Adobe’s ColdFusion application server have been at the heart of a number of incidents this year, including a compromise of servers belonging to the Washington State Court system. This level of action has prompted Adobe to release five security updates for the...

Washington Court Data Breach Exposes 160K SSNs

Attackers using a vulnerability in Adobe’s ColdFusion app server were able to compromise servers belonging to the Washington State court system sometime in the last few months and walked off with data belonging to as many as a million residents of the state. The attackers had access to 160,000...

Washington State to Register Voters via Facebook

Residents of Washington State will soon be able to access voter registration forms on the secretary of state’s official Facebook page, according to an Associated Press report. Voters will not be registering directly through Facebook, but rather using the social network to access voter registratio...