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FBI Warns of Ongoing Zoom-Bombing Attacks on Video Meetings

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned today of hijackers who join Zoom video conferences used for online lessons and business meetings with the end goal of disrupting them or for pulling pranks that could be later shared on social media platforms. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-warns-of-ongoing-zoom-bombing-attacks-on-video-meetings/
Marriott Reports Data Breach Affecting Up to 5.2 Million Guests

Marriott International​​​​​​​ today revealed that the personal information of roughly 5.2 million hotel guests was impacted in a data breach incident detected at the end of February 2020. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/marriott-reports-data-breach-affecting-up-to-52-million-guests/
Critical WordPress Plugin Bug Lets Hackers Turn Users Into Admins

A critical privilege escalation vulnerability found in the Rank Math WordPress SEO plugin can allow attackers to give administrator privileges to any registered user on one of the 200,000 sites with active installations if left unpatched. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-wordpress-plugin-bug-lets-hackers-turn-users-into-admins/
Microsoft Delays Disabling Insecure TLS in Browsers Until July

Microsoft announced today that it will delay disabling support for the insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols from Microsoft web browsers because of the current global situation until the second half of 2020, with an estimated time of roll out during July. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-delays-disabling-insecure-tls-in-browsers-until-july/
Microsoft Updates Windows 10 PowerToys With New Utilities

Microsoft updated the open-source Windows 10 PowerToys toolset with new utilities for quickly switching between windows, for previewing files in Windows Explorer, and for batch resizing images from the context menu. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-updates-windows-10-powertoys-with-new-utilities/
Hacker Group Backdoors Thousands of Microsoft SQL Servers Daily

Hackers have been brute-forcing thousands of vulnerable Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) servers to install cryptominers and remote access Trojans (RATs) since May 2018 as researchers at Guardicore Labs discovered in December. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-group-backdoors-thousands-of-microsoft-sql-servers-daily/
Cloudflare Launches a DNS-Based Parental Control Service

Cloudflare introduced today '1.1.1.1 for Families,' a privacy-focused DNS resolver designed to help parents in their efforts to safeguard their children's online security and privacy​​​​​​ by automatically filtering out bad sites.​​​​​​​ [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-launches-a-dns-based-parental-control-service/
How to Mitigate the Windows Font Parsing Zero-Day Bug via GPO

Active Directory (AD) admins can mitigate the recently disclosed and actively exploited remote code execution (RCE) zero-day found in the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library in large AD environments using group policies. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/how-to-mitigate-the-windows-font-parsing-zero-day-bug-via-gpo/