ECU Student Charged with Cyber-stalking

ECU Student Charged with Cyber-stalking

A student at East Carolina University has been charged with cyber-stalking after allegedly posing as a member of a rival fraternity to upload a racist post to social media. A police investigation was launched after an offensive message, purporting to be from the university’s Theta Chi chapter, was uploaded anonymously to Yik Yak in August.  The post read:  “Theta Chi rush party, PNMs (potential new members) and girls only. No blacks. Girls 5$ @door. Call or…

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Brewer’s Token Gaffe Causes Massive PII Breach

Brewer’s Token Gaffe Causes Massive PII Breach

An authentication error left the personal data of hundreds of thousands of BrewDog customers and Equity for Punks shareholders exposed for a year and a half.  The gaffe involving an API bearer token was discovered by researchers at security consulting and testing company Pen Test Partners.  “Every mobile app user was given the same hard-coded API Bearer Token, rendering request authorization useless,” wrote the researchers in a blog post published today. The mistake allowed any user to access the personal…

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People Behind CSR at Cisco: How Meraki’s Charlie Gebhardt engages employees in volunteer and giving efforts – Cisco Blogs

People Behind CSR at Cisco: How Meraki’s Charlie Gebhardt engages employees in volunteer and giving efforts – Cisco Blogs

Welcome to our blog series on the people behind Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Cisco. Each blog in this series will highlight a different Cisco employee who works closely with CSR initiatives across the company. Cisco Meraki is a complete cloud-managed networking solution that integrates hardware, software, and cloud services. Besides its products, another distinct aspect of the Meraki business unit is that its employees are deeply engaged in community impact and volunteerism. Charlie Gebhardt is…

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Motion Picture Academy employs cutting-edge tech to keep Oscar contenders secure

Motion Picture Academy employs cutting-edge tech to keep Oscar contenders secure

With video use on the rise across the board, new technologies are being deployed to prevent it from being pirated or showing up in places it shouldn’t. Image: Shutterstock/redstone Like so many other things in our work lives, the COVID-19 pandemic is changing the way companies use video. With so many face-to-face interactions curtailed by travel restrictions and people working from home, businesses have turned to video for doing everything from streaming live events and…

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US Shutters Psychic Mass Mail Fraud

US Shutters Psychic Mass Mail Fraud

An international psychic mail fraud scheme that sold the promise of good fortune to tens of thousands of victims has been shut down by a United States court. Earlier today, the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida entered a permanent injunction against three residents of France and two corporate defendants who had been carrying out the highly lucrative scheme. According to a complaint, Robert Lhez, Mireille Dayer and Julie Poulleau, using Arcana Center, a…

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Create, Document, and Share Live Code Examples with Jupyter Notebook

Create, Document, and Share Live Code Examples with Jupyter Notebook

Q: How do you eat a whale? A: One bite at a time… or so the saying goes. Admittedly, I don’t know of anyone who eats whale one bite at a time (or any way otherwise for that matter). But we can all agree that breaking large problems into smaller pieces is a valuable arrow in the quiver of problem-solving techniques. It’s a practice that certainly applies in the world of programming. Once the problem…

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Twitch data breach updates: login credentials or card numbers not exposed

Twitch data breach updates: login credentials or card numbers not exposed

An anonymous individual has leaked the source code and data of the popular video streaming platform Twitch via a torrent file posted on 4chan. An anonymous 4chan user has published a torrent link to a 128GB file on the 4chan discussion board, the leaked archive contains sensitive data stolen from 6,000 internal Twitch Git repositories. The leaker, who used the #DoBetterTwitch hashtag, claims to have leaked the data in response to harassment raids targeting the platform streamers…

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Join Docker This Month at KubeCon and the Cloud Engineering Summit – Docker Blog

Join Docker This Month at KubeCon and the Cloud Engineering Summit – Docker Blog

Two cloud-related conferences are coming up this month, and Docker will have speakers at both. First up, Docker CTO Justin Cormack will present at KubeCon next week. The week after that Peter McKee, Docker’s head of Developer Relations, will speak at  Pulumi Cloud Engineering Summit. At KubeCon, Justin and co-presenter Steve Lasker of Microsoft will speak on the topic of tooling for supply chain security with special reference to the Notary project. They’ll also look…

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