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CEO charged with sale of counterfeit Cisco devices to govt, health orgs

Onur Aksoy, the CEO of a group of dozens of companies, was indicted for allegedly selling more than $1 billion worth of counterfeit Cisco network equipment to customers worldwide, including health, military, and government organizations. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/ceo-charged-with-sale-of-counterfeit-cisco-devices-to-govt-health-orgs/
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PyPI mandates 2FA for critical projects, developer pushes back

On Friday, the Python Package Index (PyPI), repository of open source Python projects announced plans to rollout two factor authentication for maintainers of "critical" projects. Although many praised the move, the developer of a popular Python project decided to delete his code from PyPI in retaliation. [...]
Mangatoon data breach exposes data from 23 million accounts

Manga comic reading app Mangatoon has suffered a data breach that exposed the account information of 23 million users after a hacker stole it from an Elasticsearch database. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mangatoon-data-breach-exposes-data-from-23-million-accounts/
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PyPI mandates 2FA for critical projects, developer pushes back

On Friday, the Python Package Index (PyPI), repository of open source Python projects announced plans to rollout two factor authentication for maintainers of "critical" projects. Although many praised the move, the developer of a popular Python project decided to delete his code from PyPI in retaliation. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pypi-mandates-2fa-for-critical-projects-developer-pushes-back/
Maastricht University wound up earning money from its ransom payment

Maastricht University (UM), a Dutch university with more than 22,000 students, said last week that it has recovered the ransom paid after a ransomware attack that hit its network in December 2019. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/maastricht-university-wound-up-earning-money-from-its-ransom-payment/
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