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Hackers breached Greece’s top-level domain registrar

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports:

State-sponsored hackers have breached ICS-Forth, the organization that manages Greece’s top-level domain country codes of .gr and .el.

ICS-Forth, which stands for the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology, publicly admitted to the security incident in emails it sent ot domain owners on April 19.

The hackers behind the breach are the same group detailed in a Cisco Talos report from April, which the company named Sea Turtle.

Read more on ZDNet.

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DNA-testing service exposed thousands of customer records online

Nico Grant reports:

DNA-testing service Vitagene Inc. left thousands of client health reports exposed online for years, the kind of incident that privacy advocates have warned about as gene testing has become increasingly popular.

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