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Hackers have breached Michigan State University's online store, gaining access to customer credit card numbers and other personal information, the university said. The university is offering free credit monitoring to anyone affected by the breach.
British infosec biz NCC Group has admitted to The Register that its internal training materials were leaked on GitHub - after folders purporting to help people pass the CREST pentest certification exams appeared in a couple of repositories. CREST offers a certification called CRT: CREST Registered Tester.
More than 20 gigabytes of proprietary data and source code from chipmaker Intel Corp. was dumped online by a third party, likely the result of a data breach from earlier this year. The announcement of the "First 20gb release in a series of large Intel leaks" was made by user and IT consultant Tillie 1312 Kottmann #BLM on Twitter, who called the information "Intel exconfidential Lake Platform Release."
While China is the bête noire du jour of the US government, Russia is the master of spreading disinformation, fostering conflict, and derailing discourse online, the Black Hat security conference was told today. The basic methods of hacking public opinion are fairly simple, DiResta explained.
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Computer networks of the smartwatch and electronics firm Garmin were coming back online Monday, the company said, after an outage widely believed to have been due to a ransomware attack. "We are happy to report that many of the systems and services affected by the recent outage, including Garmin Connect, are returning to operation," Garmin said in an online post.
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Germany's highest court on Friday said security services had too much unfettered access to people's online data and ordered legislation to be revised to set higher hurdles. The Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe agreed with complaints brought by privacy activists that the access to data was excessive and an unconstitutional violation of citizens' right to telecoms privacy.
Accertify announced the launch of a new solution designed to help organizations address the significant rise in fraudulent online account openings and account takeovers. Fraudulent account openings, using stolen or fake names and information to open an account, and account takeovers, defined as unauthorized access to accounts, are two types of identity theft that are concerningly on the rise.