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Opinion | Kill Canvas. Now.
Opinion | Kill Canvas. Now.
Last Thursday, the inevitable happened. In the middle of finals at many colleges, a hacking group called ShinyHunters breached the security of Canvas, a widely used learning-management system (LMS), …
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Opinion | Kill Canvas. Now.
Smashing Security podcast #467: How ShinyHunters hacked the world’s biggest universities
Smashing Security podcast #467: How ShinyHunters hacked the world’s biggest universities
Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history - affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals. When Canvas's parent company refused to pay and announced they had deployed "security patches" instead, the hackers were less than impresse
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Smashing Security podcast #467: How ShinyHunters hacked the world’s biggest universities
Instructure reaches 'agreement' with ShinyHunters to stop data leak
Instructure reaches 'agreement' with ShinyHunters to stop data leak
Instructure, the edtech giant behind the widely popular Canvas learning management system (LMS), has reached an "agreement" with the ShinyHunters extortion group to prevent the data stolen in a recent breach from being leaked online. [...]
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Instructure reaches 'agreement' with ShinyHunters to stop data leak
Palo Alto Networks firewall zero-day exploited for nearly a month
Palo Alto Networks firewall zero-day exploited for nearly a month
Palo Alto Networks warned customers that suspected state-sponsored hackers have been exploiting a critical-severity PAN-OS firewall zero-day vulnerability for nearly a month.
·bleepingcomputer.com·
Palo Alto Networks firewall zero-day exploited for nearly a month
Personalised phishing attacks likely after global Canvas hack
Personalised phishing attacks likely after global Canvas hack
With data potentially stolen from 200 million users at 9,000 institutions worldwide, staff and students told to be alert for more sophisticated attempts to steal data
·timeshighereducation.com·
Personalised phishing attacks likely after global Canvas hack
Vimeo data breach exposes personal information of 119,000 people
Vimeo data breach exposes personal information of 119,000 people
The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information belonging to over 119,000 people after hacking the Vimeo online video platform in April, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. [...]
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Vimeo data breach exposes personal information of 119,000 people
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SoundCloud Data Breach Impacts 29.8 Million Accounts
SoundCloud Data Breach Impacts 29.8 Million Accounts
A data breach at SoundCloud exposed information tied to 29.8 million user accounts, according to Have I Been Pwned. While SoundCloud says no passwords or financial data were accessed, attackers mapped email addresses to public profile data and later attempted extortion.
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SoundCloud Data Breach Impacts 29.8 Million Accounts
7 CISA Security Rules Every Android User Should Know - BGR
7 CISA Security Rules Every Android User Should Know - BGR
From being extra careful with your browsing habits to downloading the latest security apps, here are the ways you can safeguard your Android from cyber threats.
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7 CISA Security Rules Every Android User Should Know - BGR
Be careful responding to unexpected job interviews
Be careful responding to unexpected job interviews
Contacted out of the blue for a virtual interview? Be cautious. Attackers are using fake interviews to slip malware onto your device.
·malwarebytes.com·
Be careful responding to unexpected job interviews
Discord Says 70,000 Users May Have Had Their Government IDs Leaked In Breach - Slashdot
Discord Says 70,000 Users May Have Had Their Government IDs Leaked In Breach - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Discord has identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had their government ID photos exposed as part of a customer service data breach announced last week, spokesperson Nu Wexler tells The Verge. A tweet by vx-underground said that the co...
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Discord Says 70,000 Users May Have Had Their Government IDs Leaked In Breach - Slashdot
Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress - Slashdot
Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress - Slashdot
A hacking group claims to have pulled data from a GitLab instance connected to Red Hat's consulting business, scooping up 570 GB of compressed data from 28,000 customers. From a report: The hack was first reported by BleepingComputer and has been confirmed by Red Hat itself. "Red Hat is aware of rep...
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Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress - Slashdot
Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.
Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.
The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.
·prospect.org·
Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.
Uber security breach 'looks bad', potentially compromising all systems
Uber security breach 'looks bad', potentially compromising all systems
Hacker is believed to have breached Uber's entire network in a social engineering attack, which one security vendor says is more extensive than the company's 2016 global data breach and access logs potentially altered.
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Uber security breach 'looks bad', potentially compromising all systems
Twilio Hackers Breached Over 130 Organizations During Months-Long Hacking Spree - Slashdot
Twilio Hackers Breached Over 130 Organizations During Months-Long Hacking Spree - Slashdot
The hackers that breached Twilio earlier this month also compromised more than 130 other organizations during their hacking spree that netted the credentials of close to 10,000 employees. TechCrunch: Twilio's recent network intrusion allowed the hackers to access the data of 125 Twilio customers and...
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Twilio Hackers Breached Over 130 Organizations During Months-Long Hacking Spree - Slashdot
Female escort review site data breach affects 470,000 members
Female escort review site data breach affects 470,000 members
An online community promoting female escorts and reviews of their services has suffered a data breach after a hacker downloaded the site's database.
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Female escort review site data breach affects 470,000 members