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The online proctoring service ProctorTrack has disabled access to their service after its parent company was hacked. ProctorTrack is one such solution by Verificient that is used by numerous universities, including Rutgers, University of Western Ontario, Ohio University, Illinois State University, Purdue University, and MIT. Verificient and ProctorTrack was hacked.
Governments around the world are using the pandemic as a justification to expand surveillance and crack down on dissent online, resulting in a 10th consecutive annual decline in internet freedom, a human rights watchdog report said Wednesday. "The pandemic is accelerating society's reliance on digital technologies at a time when the internet is becoming less and less free," said Michael Abramowitz, president of the nonprofit group.
Online infrastructure security solutions provider Cyberpion on Tuesday emerged from stealth mode after raising $8.25 million in seed funding. Aiming to help organizations gain visibility into and secure their online ecosystem, the Tel Aviv, Israel-based cybersecurity startup provides security teams with a platform that they can leverage to identify and neutralize the risks posed by vulnerabilities in their online assets.
Computer hackers who obtained information about a Virginia public school district's students and employees have posted stolen data online, school officials said Friday in an email to parents and staff. The Fairfax County Public Schools didn't specify the nature or volume of the data that was stolen in the ransomware attack last month.
NordVPN has hit the go-live button for the first of its colocated servers. The move means the VPN provider can take tighter control over the service as it now only rents space for its own custom servers, rather than renting someone else's server in a data centre.
This proposed standard is a first step towards a meaningful global privacy control that will make it simple and easy for consumers to exercise their privacy rights online. The 2003 California Online Privacy Protection Act was amended in 2013 to include a requirement that online services disclose how they respond to the DNT signal.
Hack-for-hire group BAHAMUT managed to build a fake online empire to leverage in cyber-espionage operations targeting the Middle East and other regions around the world, BlackBerry reports. "BlackBerry assesses that the InPage zero-day exploit first identified by Kaspersky in 2016 and given CVE-2017-12824 but never attributed, was in fact used by BAHAMUT. We also assess that it was first developed by a Chinese threat group in 2009 for use in targeting a group in diaspora perceived to be a potential threat to the power of the Chinese Communist Party," BlackBerry notes in a new report.
In 2019 alone, ATO attacks cost consumers and e-commerce retailers a whopping $16.9 billion in losses. To be clear, ATO fraud isn't new, it's been a concern for online retailers for a decade.
Key findings include a 450% increase in employees circumventing security controls to intentionally mask online activities and 230% increase in behaviors that indicate intent to steal data. Companies reported remote workers most commonly attempted to intentionally bypass the corporate VPN to mask their online activities.
Microsoft's long-lived operating system Windows XP-that still powers over 1% of all laptops and desktop computers worldwide-has had its source code leaked online, allegedly, along with Windows Server 2003. The source code for Microsoft's 19-year-old operating system was published as a torrent file on notorious bulletin board website 4chan, and it's for the very first time when source code for Microsoft's operating system has been leaked to the public.