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SC Magazine: More than 2,000 former graduate students of Johns Hopkins University are being notified that their personal information – including Social Security numbers – was stored on a server that was accessible via the internet, and was accessed a few dozen times.

Computer Weekly: Business should improve awareness of current cyber risks and threats to stay ahead of cyber criminals, security and law enforcement professionals have told delegates at Infosecurity Europe 2014 in London. “While security technology will help, a contemporary and dynamic awareness of real-world risks and threats is very important,” said Lee Miles, deputy head of the UK’s National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU).

Indepedent: Eircom has suffered a security breach, leading to the suspension of email services to 350,000 Eircom.net accounts over the last 18 hours. A company spokesman said that the breach was detected on Tuesday.

softpedia - Now that Microsoft no longer supports old versions of Internet Explorer and Windows XP, software developers across the world abandon these solutions one by one and today it's Adblock's turn to give up on them. Starting with the next release, Adblock Plus, the browser add-on that removes advertisements and contributes to a cleaner browsing experience no matter the website, today announced that Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported, which means...

Computing - IT in the enterprise is ridiculously bloated and should move towards the implementation of automated services even if it means the ‘scary' prospect of jobs being lost. That's the view of ServiceNow CEO and President Frank Slootman who made the comments during a Q&A session with press and analysts at the firm's Knowledge 14 conference in San Francisco. Slootman told the gathered audience that the only reason why many organisations haven't implemented automated...

Wired - Checkout counters in the U.S. are an embarrassing technological backwater compared to those in most other developed countries, but this may finally be coming to an end. All it took was somebody hacking 40 million credit and debit cards. Today, Target–the retail chain where all those cards were stolen–said that, starting in early 2015, all of its own credit and debit cards will be “chip-and-PIN-enabled.”  

BBC - The Heartbleed bug has turned cyber criminals from attackers into victims as researchers use it to grab material from chatrooms where they trade data. Discovered in early April, Heartbleed lets attackers steal data from computers using vulnerable versions of some widely used security programs.  

security Affairs - Adobe has just released a security updates for Flash Player to fix critical vulnerabilities that are being exploited by hackers to track Syrian dissidents. Adobe has just released security updates for Flash Player to fix critical vulnerabilities that are being exploited in a series of cyber attacks targeting Syrian dissidents complaining about the government.  

Register: Backing up the NSA's claim that it was caught by surprise by the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug, the White House has tried to explain the rules under which it allows agencies to hoard security vulnerabilities. In this White House blog post, cybersecurity coordinator Michael Daniel says leaving a huge number of vulnerabilities undisclosed would not be in America's national interest: “Building up a huge stockpile of undisclosed vulnerabilities while leaving the Internet vulnerable and the American...

Tripwire: Target Corporation has announced the appointment of Bob DeRodes as Chief Information Officer to help guide effort in the wake of a massive data breach that exposed account details of more than 100 million customers, and has also provided details on the security enhancements the company has implemented, which include plans to incorporate MasterCard chip-and-PIN technology across their REDcard portfolio. “Effective May 5, Bob DeRodes will lead Target’s information technology transformation as executive vice president...