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About 860,000 members who post on the forums of popular Apple news website MacRumors are being asked to change their passwords after accounts were compromised in a hack. Via Gust MEES 
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Hackers accessed the credit card information of tens of thousands customers of the University of Michigans Union Ticket Office, the latest organization that has fallen victim to a breach affecting a thirdparty vendor.
Hackers accessed the credit card information of tens of thousands customers of the University of Michigan's Union Ticket Office, the latest organization that has fallen victim to a breach affecting a third-party vendor. How many victims? More than 33,000.
The database supplied by third-party ticketing solution provider Vendini was compromised by hackers who may have stolen the personal information of any U of M customer in the last two years.
What was the response? University officials have contacted all individuals affected by the breach. Via Gust MEES
Gust MEES's curator insight,
June 17, 2013 4:46 PM
Hackers accessed the credit card information of tens of thousands customers of the University of Michigan's Union Ticket Office, the latest organization that has fallen victim to a breach affecting a third-party vendor. How many victims? More than 33,000.
What was the response? University officials have contacted all individuals affected by the breach.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Universities
Gust MEES's curator insight,
June 17, 2013 4:50 PM
Hackers accessed the credit card information of tens of thousands customers of the University of Michigan's Union Ticket Office, the latest organization that has fallen victim to a breach affecting a third-party vendor. How many victims? More than 33,000.
What was the response? University officials have contacted all individuals affected by the breach.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Universities
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TeamSHATTER reports on data breaches in the higher education vertical throughout the United States.
In fact, the past year has seen the most reported compromised records in the higher education sector since 2006, based on data since tracking began in 2005. Via Gust MEES
Gust MEES's curator insight,
March 18, 2013 12:29 PM
The past year has seen a substantial uptick in the amount of total records breached. In 2012, there was a dramatic increase in the total number of reported records affected (1,977,412), but a relatively low amount of institutions (51) that reported breaches.
In fact, the past year has seen the most reported compromised records in the higher education sector since 2006, based on data since tracking began in 2005.
Check also:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet?tag=Universities
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet?tag=DATA-BREACHES
Gust MEES's curator insight,
March 18, 2013 12:35 PM
The past year has seen a substantial uptick in the amount of total records breached. In 2012, there was a dramatic increase in the total number of reported records affected (1,977,412), but a relatively low amount of institutions (51) that reported breaches.
In fact, the past year has seen the most reported compromised records in the higher education sector since 2006, based on data since tracking began in 2005.
Check also:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet?tag=Universities
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet?tag=DATA-BREACHES
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Universities face unique challenges keeping their servers and networks secure from cyber-criminals while accommodating the influx of student and faculty-owned devices each year. A recent analysis of online transaction data highlighted to what extent some universities have already been compromised.
ThreatMextrix looked at all the data collected by its systems in September and filtered out only IP addresses that corresponded to university networks for this analysis, Faulkner said.
Read more, a MUST:
Via Gust MEES
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Apple's Dev Center went down on Thursday causing issues for developers around the world. The system remained down for three days and is still currently unavailable.
This brings up an interesting question regarding single points of failure in the mobile application distribution system. When one component goes down, or is breached in this case it affects the entire ecosystem.
===> We hear a lot about mobile apps and devices being hacked, however as I have stated before that is small potatoes when compared to the treasure trove of the back-end systems that power mobile applications and services. <===
What is the point of hacking one person’s phone when there are entire app store infrastructures to target? Via Gust MEES
Gust MEES's curator insight,
July 21, 2013 8:20 PM
===> We hear a lot about mobile apps and devices being hacked, however as I have stated before that is small potatoes when compared to the treasure trove of the back-end systems that power mobile applications and services. <===
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
Gust MEES's curator insight,
July 21, 2013 8:22 PM
===> We hear a lot about mobile apps and devices being hacked, however as I have stated before that is small potatoes when compared to the treasure trove of the back-end systems that power mobile applications and services. <===
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
Vivalist's curator insight,
July 22, 2013 4:28 AM
going up the network, identify the bottle neck and get at it - pretty simple, but they probably had to sweat a little to do it.
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Drupal, the open source content management system, is resetting the passwords for nearly one million accounts in the wake of a data breach. Via Gust MEES
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Facebook will be launching an internal investigation following the revelation by Czech blogger Bogomil Shopov that data belonging to over one million Facebook users was offered for sale for $5.
Read more, a MUST: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=13870
Via Gust MEES
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Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=MacRumors+Forum
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=MacRumors+Forum
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=MacRumors+Forum