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It seems ironic that the co-founder of a company designed to prevent online fraud would engage in fraudulent activity. "It seems ironic that the co-founder of a company designed to prevent online fraud would engage in fraudulent activity himself, but today that's exactly what we allege Adam Rogas did," Sweeney said in a statement.
As students head back to the classroom, the spate of ransomware attacks against schools is continuing. The latest is a strike against a California school district that closed down remote learning for 6,000 elementary school students, according to city officials.
EclecticIQ has launched an online training component for its popular CTI Fundamentals course. The new offering provides a convenient way for EclecticIQ customers to boost their security teams' CTI knowledge and skills from remote locations while maintaining the same level of interactivity and quality of instruction as the on-site training traditionally offered by EclecticIQ Academy.
According to Sansec Threat Intelligence, online stores running Magento versions 1 and 2 are being targeted in a classic Magecart attack pattern, where e-commerce sites are hacked, either via a common vulnerability or stolen credentials. "On Friday, 10 stores got infected, then 1058 on Saturday, 603 on Sunday and 233 today.Most stores were running Magento version 1, which was announced end-of-life last June. However, some stores were running Magento 2.".
The teen is a junior at South Miami Senior High School in the Miami-Dade Public Schools system in Florida. The school district said the kid admitted carrying out eight DDoS attacks since the school year began on August 31.
Facebook is pushing back on new Apple privacy rules for its mobile devices - and putting app developers in the middle. Apple will soon require apps to ask users for permission to collect data on what devices they are using and to let ads follow them around on the internet.
Fraudsters are decreasing their schemes against businesses, but increasing COVID-19 focused scams against consumers online, according to TransUnion. The percent of suspected fraudulent digital transactions against businesses worldwide decreased 9% from the beginning of the pandemic to when businesses began reopening.
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British infosec accreditation body CREST has suspended all of its accreditation exams after The Register revealed a published cache of files including what appeared to be internal exam sheets as well as docs apparently tied to key industry player NCC Group. We understand from sources that the security body has suspended all of its CREST Certified Infrastructure Tester and CREST Certified Web Application Tester exams for up to a month while their contents are reviewed.