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UConn Discloses Data Breach at School of Engineering

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Dissent

The University is responding to a criminal cyberintrusion through which hackers apparently originating in China gained access to servers at UConn’s School of Engineering. UConn has implemented a combination of measures intended to further protect the University from cyberattack, and to assist individuals and research partners whose data may have been exposed. UConn IT security professionals,…

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Hacker steals Bitdefender customer log-in credentials, attempts blackmail

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Dissent

Lucian Constantin reports: A hacker extracted customer log-in credentials from a server owned by Bitdefender that hosted the cloud-based management dashboards for its small and medium-size business clients. The antivirus company confirmed the security breach but said in an emailed statement that the attack affected less than 1 percent of its SMB customers, whose passwords…

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PagerDuty hacked … and finally comes clean 21 days later. Cheers

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Dissent

Alexander J. Martin reports: Why not celebrate SysAdmin Day by worrying about a data breach at incident management peddler PagerDuty? An attacker managed to get into the company’s systems on 9 July, and a belated 21 days later the company did the decent thing and informed its customers about the incident. ‘Fessing up to the…

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OK: Another small restaurant’s payment processing system compromised (updated)

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Dissent

Some Salita’s Restaurant customers in Durant, Oklahoma reportedly became victims of credit card fraud after the restaurant’s payment processing system was breached. According to The Durant Democrat, customers who ate at Salita’s between July 1st and July 27th are most affected. There doesn’t seem to be any statement on the restaurant’s web site, but the owner…

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900,000 Online and phone customers affected by Hanes hack

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Dissent

  Richard Craver reports: Hanesbrands Inc. said Wednesday that a customer order database was breached by a hacker in June, compromising information for about 900,000 online and telephone customers. The hacker gained access to general customer information through the company’s website by posing as a “guest” customer checking an order, meaning they weren’t registered on the…

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Feds: Iranian hacker targeted Vermont aerodynamics firm

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Dissent

Mike Donaghue reports: A university student from Iran hacked into the computer system of a Vermont aerodynamics company to steal millions of dollars worth of software, according to federal authorities. Nima Golestaneh, who will celebrate his 30th birthday Thursday behind bars, has pleaded not guilty to a six-count indictment. Read more on USA Today.

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