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Decade-Long Bank Account Hacking Scheme Gets Fraudster 57 Months

Brooklyn man Jason Mickel Elcock was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for a series of account hijacking attacks spanning more than a decade, having used stolen personal and financial information to pilfer over $1.1 million from banks and online retailers. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/decade-long-bank-account-hacking-scheme-gets-fraudster-57-months/
Mozilla Firefox Bug Let Third-Parties Access Saved Passwords

Mozilla patched a vulnerability in the Firefox web browser with the launch of the 68.0.2 release which would allow unauthorized users to copy passwords from the browser's built-in Save Logins database even when protected with a master password. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mozilla-firefox-bug-let-third-parties-access-saved-passwords/
Windows 10 Insider Build 18963 Adds GPU Temperature Monitoring

Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18963 (20H1) to Insiders in the Fast ring, a build that adds GPU temperature to the Windows Task Manager and allows users to rename their virtual desktops. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-insider-build-18963-adds-gpu-temperature-monitoring/
Steam Security Saga Continues with Vulnerability Fix Bypass

A bypass for a recent Steam vulnerability that could allow malware or a local attacker to gain admin privileges has been disclosed on Twitter. This new method allows an attacker to bypass the fix created by Steam and exploit the vulnerability again. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/steam-security-saga-continues-with-vulnerability-fix-bypass/
The Week in Ransomware - August 16th 2019 - Fairly Slow

Been a pretty slow week with mostly new variants of existing ransomware being released. The most interesting story was researchers at Check Point being able to install ransomware on a Canon DSLR camera. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-week-in-ransomware-august-16th-2019-fairly-slow/
Windows Updates Start Rolling Out to Fix Visual Basic Issues

Microsoft has started to release new Windows updates that fix Visual Basic and VBScript issues that were introduced in recent updates. These updates are first rolling out for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows 10 version 1709. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-updates-start-rolling-out-to-fix-visual-basic-issues/
VLC Media Player 3.0.8 Released with 13 Security Fixes

VideoLan has released VLC Media Player 3.0.8 and it is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This release fixed 13 security vulnerabilities as well as providing improvements to video playback. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vlc-media-player-308-released-with-13-security-fixes/
iOS 12.4 Jailbreak Released After Apple Unpatches Older Bug

iOS security researcher Pwn20wnd released a public jailbreak for the latest stable iOS version after Apple reintroduced a vulnerability patched in iOS 12.3, previously exploited to jailbreak iOS 12.2. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ios-124-jailbreak-released-after-apple-unpatches-older-bug/
Gmail Is Down, Displays "Something Went Wrong" Errors

Google's free Gmail email service is currently experiencing a worldwide outage which prevents users from logging in and displays "Something went wrong" errors when they're trying to sign in to their accounts. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/gmail-is-down-displays-something-went-wrong-errors/