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🔐 Why that email from your boss could be a scam waiting to happen 🔐

Impersonation fraud is on the rise, and SMBs lose an average of $35,000 to these attacks, according to Lloyds Bank.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🔐 How to improve citizen communication with state governments? Digital interaction 🔐

Americans need more individualized and accessible digital services from their government agencies, according to a Conduent report.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🕴 Russian National Extradited for 2014 JP Morgan Hack 🕴

Andrei Tyurin was arrested for his involvement in a hacking campaign targeting US financial institutions, financial news publishers, brokerage firm, and other companies.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
Ransomware campaign targets businesses with fake invoice message

Locky ransomware was once of the most prolific forms of ransomware - a new 'PyLocky' ransomware campaign by attempting to piggyback on its past success.

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via "Latest topics for ZDNet in Security".
ATENTION New - CVE-2016-7078

foreman before version 1.15.0 is vulnerable to an information leak through organizations and locations feature. When a user is assigned _no_ organizations/locations, they are able to view all resources instead of none (mirroring an administrator's view). The user's actions are still limited by their assigned permissions, e.g. to control viewing, editing and deletion.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
ATENTION New - CVE-2016-7077

foreman before 1.14.0 is vulnerable to an information leak. It was found that Foreman form helper does not authorize options for associated objects. Unauthorized user can see names of such objects if their count is less than 6.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
ATENTION New - CVE-2016-7075

It was found that Kubernetes as used by Openshift Enterprise 3 did not correctly validate X.509 client intermediate certificate host name fields. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass authentication requirements by using a specially crafted X.509 certificate.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
ATENTION New - CVE-2016-7071

It was found that the CloudForms before 5.6.2.2, and 5.7.0.7 did not properly apply permissions controls to VM IDs passed by users. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary VMs on systems managed by CloudForms if they know the ID of the VM.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
ATENTION New - CVE-2016-7067

Monit before version 5.20.0 is vulnerable to a cross site request forgery attack. Successful exploitation will enable an attacker to disable/enable all monitoring for a particular host or disable/enable monitoring for a specific service.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
Apple Finally Boots Sneaky Adware Doctor App from Mac App Store

Hours after researchers publicly disclosed an app that was caught stealing and uploading browser history data, Apple removed it from the Mac App Store.

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via "The first stop for security news | Threatpost ".
🕴 The Equifax Breach One Year Later: 6 Action Items for Security Pros 🕴

The Equifax breach last September was the largest consumer breach in history. We talked to experts about lessons learned and steps companies can take to prevent and minimize future breaches.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
Tor Brings Onion Browser to Android Devices

In parts of the developing world, dissidents and journalists face hostile governments and other threats -- and mobile is their only access to the internet.

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via "The first stop for security news | Threatpost ".
🔐 Top 5 riskiest airport Wi-Fi 🔐

Whatever you do, try to avoid connecting to free wifi at these airports, begs TechRepublic's Tom Merritt

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🔐 5 riskiest airport Wi-Fi 🔐

TechRepublic's Tom Merritt counts down the top 5 riskiest wifi at airports in the U.S.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
ATENTION New - CVE-2016-7061

An information disclosure vulnerability was found in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform before 7.0.4. It was discovered that when configuring RBAC and marking information as sensitive, users with a Monitor role are able to view the sensitive information.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
ATENTION New - CVE-2016-7056

A timing attack flaw was found in OpenSSL 1.0.1u and before that could allow a malicious user with local access to recover ECDSA P-256 private keys.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
ATENTION New - CVE-2016-7041

Drools Workbench contains a path traversal vulnerability. The vulnerability allows a remote, authenticated attacker to bypass the directory restrictions and retrieve arbitrary files from the affected host.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
ATENTION New - CVE-2016-7035

An authorization flaw was found in Pacemaker before 1.1.16, where it did not properly guard its IPC interface. An attacker with an unprivileged account on a Pacemaker node could use this flaw to, for example, force the Local Resource Manager daemon to execute a script as root and thereby gain root access on the machine.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
🔐 The secret to get employees to go back to school for cybersecurity: Pay their tuition 🔐

With the growing need for cybersecurity professionals in the enterprise, sponsored tuition could help fill skill gaps, and 72% of workers are willing to go back to school for it.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
ProtonVPN, NordVPN Flaws Open Door to Privilege Escalation

The flaws disclosed this month are related to a critical bug previously discovered by VerSprite in April 2018.

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via "The first stop for security news | Threatpost ".
🕴 GAO Says Equifax Missed Flaws, Intrusion in Massive Breach 🕴

A report from the Government Accountability Office details the issues found and opportunities missed in the huge 2017 Equifax data breach.

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via "Dark Reading: ".