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🔐 How to secure a Kubernetes cluster by preventing unwanted modules from loading 🔐

The road to secure containers is long and winding. One stop you should take on that journey is unloading unnecessary kernel modules in your Linux containers.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🕴 User-Friendly Cybersecurity: Is a Better UX the Key to a Better Defense? 🕴

Frictionless security, improved interfaces, and more usable design may improve the efficacy of security tools and features (and make life easier for users and infosec pros alike). So why has there been so much resistance?

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 Ed-Tech Company Chegg Suffers Third Breach Since 2018 🕴

The latest incident compromised names, Social Security numbers, and other data belonging to 700 current and former Chegg employees.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
Building for Billions: Addressing Security Concerns for Platforms at Scale

Lessons from Facebook and Google show how to safely scale your environment for security.

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via "Threatpost".
🔐 Scammers exploiting stimulus payments with phishing attacks and malicious domains 🔐

Since January, more than 4,000 domains related to coronavirus stimulus packages have been registered, many of them malicious or suspicious, according to Check Point Research.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🔐 How Google Cloud users can combat coronavirus-themed phishing emails 🔐

Google is striving to block Gmail messages and other content that exploit COVID-19, but there are steps users can take to fight such malware.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🕴 Things Keeping CISOs Up at Night During the COVID-19 Pandemic 🕴

Insights from discussions with more than 20 CISOs, CEOs, CTOs, and security leaders.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 Healthcare Targeted By More Attacks But Less Sophistication 🕴

An increase in attacks targeting healthcare organizations suggests that perhaps new cybercriminals are getting into the game.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
Salt Bugs Allow Full RCE as Root on Cloud Servers

Researchers say the bugs are easy to exploit and will likely be weaponized within a day.

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via "Threatpost".
🔐 How to check for weak passwords on your Linux systems with John the Ripper 🔐

Are you certain your users are working with strong passwords on your Linux servers? Let John the Ripper show you who is and who isn't.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
Microsoft Sway Abused in Office 365 Phishing Attack

The "PerSwaysion" attackers have leveraged a plethora of Microsoft services to compromise at least 150 executives in a highly targeted phishing campaign.

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via "Threatpost".
🕴 Researchers Find Baby Banking Trojan, Watch It Grow 🕴

EventBot is an Android information stealer on its way to becoming a very capable piece of malware.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 Microsoft's Records Management Tool Aims to Simplify Data Governance 🕴

Records Management is intended to help businesses manage security and data governance as more struggle to handle increased amounts of data and regulatory requirements.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
COVID-19 prompts DHS warning to review Office 365 security

The DHS is urging users to secure Office 365 accounts after reporting security weaknesses in Microsoft's online productivity service.

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via "Naked Security".
Google fights spammy extensions with new Chrome Web Store policy

The policies are specifically meant to fight spam, but they outlaw tactics taken by malicious extensions as well, including fake reviews.

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via "Naked Security".
TrickBot Attack Exploits COVID-19 Fears with DocuSign-Themed Ploy

Threat actors are spreading the tricky trojan through fake messages in another opportunistic COVID-19-related campaign, said IBM X-Force.

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via "Threatpost".
🕴 Industrial Networks' Newest Threat: Remote Users 🕴

We know remote working isn't going away anytime soon, so it's crucial we be extra vigilant about security for industrial networks and critical infrastructure.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🔏 Friday Five: 5/1 Edition 🔏

Australia's contact tracing app sparks privacy concerns, Shade ransomware ceases operations, and Google Play deals with malicious apps. Catch up on the week's news with the Friday Five!

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🕴 Apple Makes It Easier to Unlock iPhone While Wearing a Mask 🕴

The beta release of iOS 13.5 brings an updated FaceID so that users wearing masks can bypass facial recognition and unlock their phone with a code.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
Microsoft Teams Impersonation Attacks Flood Inboxes

Two separate attacks have targeted as many as 50,000 different Teams users, with the goal of phishing Office 365 logins.

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via "Threatpost".
News Wrap: Microsoft Sway Phish, Malicious GIF and Spyware Attacks

Threatpost editors discuss a phishing attack abusing Microsoft Sway, a Microsoft Teams flaw and an Android spyware campaign unearthed this week.

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via "Threatpost".