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πŸ” How--and why--you should enable Housekeeping in Elementary OS Juno πŸ”

Elementary OS Juno includes a number of improvements and additions, including a slight security bump over previous releases.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ Cyberattacks Top Business Risks in North America, Europe, EAP πŸ•΄

The World Economic Forum reports cyberattacks are a top enterprise concern following WannaCry and the rise of e-commerce.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ 7 Cool New Security Tools to be Revealed at Black Hat Europe πŸ•΄

Black Hat Europe's Arsenal lineup will include demonstrations of tools addressing everything from unsecured cloud buckets to unknown IoT devices.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Veterans Find New Roles in Enterprise Cybersecurity πŸ•΄

Facebook and Synack create programs to educate vets and grow employment opportunities while shrinking the cybersecurity talent gap.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Paris Agreement on Cybercrime Falls Short of Unanimous Agreement πŸ•΄

More than 50 nations and 150 global companies agree to join effort to fight cybercrime.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Emotet Campaign Ramps Up with Mass Email Harvesting Module ❌

The new variant can exfiltrate emails for a period going back 180 days, en masse.

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via "Threatpost | The first stop for security news".
πŸ” ​4 best practices to combat new IoT security threats at the firmware level πŸ”

Firmware may be the next frontier for IoT hacks. See below how the healthcare industry addresses these threats.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ 2018 On Track to Be One of the Worst Ever for Data Breaches πŸ•΄

A total of 3,676 breaches involving over 3.6 billion records were reported in the first nine months of this year alone.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
⚠ Does wiping your iPhone count as destroying evidence? ⚠

Police say it's a felony, but a woman arrested in connection with a drive-by shooting says she doesn't even know how to remotely wipe.

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ” Ransomware no. 1 cyberthreat to SMBs, and the average attack costs $47K πŸ”

More than half of SMBs experienced a ransomware attack in the first half of 2018, according to a Datto report.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
⚠ DEA and ICE hiding cameras in streetlights and traffic barrels ⚠

Drug and immigration cops in the US are buying surveillance cameras to hide in streetlights and traffic barrels.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ WordPress GDPR compliance plugin hacked ⚠

There's no obvious executable payload in the attack but the attackers may be building a collection of websites and biding their time.

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ•΄ Sophisticated Campaign Targets Pakistan's Air Force πŸ•΄

Espionage campaign uses a variety of new evasion techniques.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Podcast: IoT Firms Face a β€˜Tidal Wave’ of Lawsuits, Attorney Explains ❌

An attorney in the infamous 2015 Jeep hack predicts that more lawsuits related to IoT security are looming in the future.

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via "Threatpost | The first stop for security news".
⚠ Google and Cloudfare traffic diverted to China… do we need to panic? ⚠

A brief outage on Monday diverted traffic to providers such as Google and Cloudflare via China - was it a blunder or a hack?

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ” Why Gen Z has the most dangerous password practices πŸ”

Some 87% of Gen Zers reuse old passwords across multiple accounts, compared to 75% of the whole employee population, a SailPoint report found.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ RIP, 'IT Security' πŸ•΄

Information security is vital, of course. But the concept of "IT security" has never made sense.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Netskope Announces Series F Funding Round πŸ•΄

The $168.7 million round will go toward R&D and global expansion, says cloud access security broker provider.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Adobe Fixes Acrobat and Reader Flaw With Publicly-Available PoC ❌

Overall, the company released only three patches as part of its regularly-scheduled November update.

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via "Threatpost | The first stop for security news".
❌ Unpatched Android OS Flaw Allows Adversaries to Track User Location ❌

The vulnerability is one of many with the same root cause: Cross-process information leakage.

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via "Threatpost | The first stop for security news".
πŸ•΄ Google Traffic Temporarily Rerouted via Russia, China πŸ•΄

The incident, which Google reports is now resolved, could be the result of either technical mistakes or malicious activity.

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via "Dark Reading: ".