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Hackers target Texas courts in ransomware attack Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Courthouse News Service

Websites for the Texas Supreme Court and the state’s appellate courts remained mostly shuttered Monday after a cyberattack last week, according to the court system’s administrator.

On Friday, IT teams took down the websites for the state’s highest court and courts of appeals after discovering a “serious security event” that was later determined to be a ransomware attack, the Office of Court Administration said in a statement.

“The attack is unrelated to the courts’ migration to remote hearings amid the coronavirus pandemic,” wrote David Slayton, who leads the OCA. “At this time, there is no indication that any sensitive information, including personal information, was compromised.”

Read more at: https://www.courthousenews.com/hackers-target-texas-courts-in-ransomware-attack/

 

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Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".


<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="Off"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.


<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>