In America, student schools you! Albion College has a plan for students to return safely to campus this fall amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. It involves being tracked by an app that, at least until a few days ago, appears to have been insecure.… …read more Source:: Register

The purchase by a private equity fund was announced in February and completed today. …read more Source:: DarkReading

While reported breach numbers are down, a handful of “mega” breaches resulted in more data records being exposed than ever before, analysis shows. …read more Source:: DarkReading

The website of Notepad++ is banned in China as of Monday, “obviously due to” its release of editions named “Free Uyghur” and “Stand with Hong Kong,” the source code and text editor announced on Twitter. TechCrunch reports: First released in 2003 by France-based developer Don Ho, free-to-use Notepad++ operates on Windows and supports some 90…

A researcher developed a killswitch exploiting a buffer overflow in Emotet – preventing the malware from infecting systems for six months. …read more Source:: Threatpost

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Amazon is being investigated by German authorities for allegedly abusing its market position during the coronavirus pandemic. The investigation, being led by the German Federal Cartel Office, is looking at Amazon’s relationship with third-party sellers on its platform. It began around April and comes after the Cartel…

Everything you need to bring the gym home. …read more Source:: CNet

The NBA Playoffs have finally arrived. …read more Source:: CNet

Since its 1996 PC release, id’s seminal shooter Quake has been ported to everything from flip phones and smartphones to game consoles and Web browsers. But even many serious fans of the series don’t know about Quake Arcade Tournament Edition (Quake ATE), an officially licensed version of the game that ran on custom arcade cabinets….

HO boy, here we go again The download page for veteran code wrangler Notepad++ has apparently been blocked by Chinese authorities after its website posted a message in support of those opposing China’s so-called “national security law”.… …read more Source:: TheRegister