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Hogwarts doesn’t teach an incantation that could have saved Harry Potter publisher Scholastic from feeling the power of an online magician who made off with millions of customer records - except perhaps the wizardry of multifactor authentication.
Luckily for those whose data was Accio'ed out of the Scholastic database, Parasocial isn't a Death Eater: They reportedly have no plans to make the data public, claiming to have breached the database out of boredom. "We devised a text mining strategy using regular expressions and demonstrated that numerous app secrets can be easily stolen, even from … highly popular Android apps," the team wrote.
It's not clear who is behind the attacks, but it's not only the country's universities that have been hit this week. DigiD, the Dutch government login service, was also hit by a DDoS attack last week, knocking it offline for most of Tuesday, January 14, the governmentNorth Korea's latest fake job campaign is more dangerous than ever
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