Archive for February 21, 2025

SafePay Claims To Have Pwned Conduent

Posted in Commentary with tags on February 21, 2025 by itnerd

Ransomware gang SafePay has today claimed responsibility for a January 2025 cyber-attack against IT giant Conduent. The outage disrupted electronic money transfers and EBT payments made by its clients, which include half of Fortune 100 companies, for two days.

Paul Bischoff, Consumer Privacy Advocate at Comparitech had this comment:

“Ransomware attacks can lock down computer systems and steal confidential data. If the targeted company doesn’t pay a ransom, then it faces extended downtime, data loss, an putting customers at increased risk of fraud.”

“SafePay’s attack on Conduent is the first confirmed ransomware attack on a US tech firm in 2025, though Comparitech researchers have logged 36 unconfirmed claims so far this year.”

“In 2024, we tracked 12 confirmed ransomware attacks on US tech companies, which was a significant decline from 2023’s 44 confirmed attacks. We counted 104.4 million records compromised in 2023, compared to just 1.9 million in 2024.”

“One of the biggest such attacks in 2024 was against ITSG, which notified 900,000 people of an October data breach claimed by ransomware gang BianLian.”

Additionally, Comparitech researchers reached out to Conduent and received a statement in response, which can be found at this link: https://www.comparitech.com/news/another-ransomware-gang-says-it-breached-it-giant-conduent/

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Bell and Virgin Plus are offering new limited-time roaming deals

Posted in Commentary with tags on February 21, 2025 by itnerd

Bell and Virgin Plus both have a new limited-time roaming deals which are perfect for families heading off on March Break and spring getaways. These discounted rates on Roam Better (Bell) and Roam Sweet Roam (Virgin Plus) with Home Data offer significant savings for families travelling together.

From now until May 29th, 2025, the first account member roaming on any given day pays the standard rate ($13/day US, $16/day international). Additional members on the same account roaming that same day receive a 50% discount, paying only $6.50/day in the US and $8/day internationally. 

  • If with Bell: This offer applies automatically to all account members enrolled in Roam Better with Home Data. For more details, please visit: Bell.ca/travel
  • If with Virgin Plus: This offer applies automatically to all account members enrolled in Roam Sweet Roam with Home Data. For more details, please visit: vpc.ca/sweetroam

Members can be in different Roam Better/Roam Sweet Roam international destinations and still get the discount if it is the same day. However, the offer does not apply if a member is in the U.S. and the other member is in an international destination.

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The Update On The Rogers Layoffs Is That Roughly 400 Employees Are Gone

Posted in Commentary with tags on February 21, 2025 by itnerd

Yesterday, I posted a story about Rogers laying off staff. Now to be clear, I found out about this earlier in the day, but I waited until I had confirmation that this was actually happening before posting anything. Now I have had additional facts about the sitaution via a source within the company who asked me not to identify them. Here’s what I have confirmed:

  • Roughly 400 people were let go by Rogers.
  • All the people who were let go worked in mostly the online chat support group. But some customer service people were also let go.
  • Something that I have yet to confirm is that members of Rogers social media team have been let go. If you are a member of that team and would like to speak to me about this anonymously, please reach out to me to do so.

Seeing as these are customer facing cuts, it’s a safe bet that customers will be impacted. But this might not be the end of it because another source who didn’t want me to identify them has said that the results of these cuts are not going to be the only ones, and that there are more cuts coming. I’ll be watching this closely because if that’s true, it may not be a good thing for Rogers customers.

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