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Microsoft Shells Out $100K for IoT Security

A three-month Azure Sphere bug-bounty challenge will offer top rewards for compromising Pluton or Secure World within Microsoft's IoT security suite.

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via "Threatpost".
🔐 Healthcare organizations targeted with password spraying attacks 🔐

Malicious campaigns are using password spraying as a type of brute-force attack to find weak passwords at healthcare and medical facilities.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🔐 Survey: Over half of employees admit to watching adult content on work devices 🔐

A study from Kaspersky also reveals significant changes in the ways people work since COVID-19.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🕴 When Achieving Deadpool Status Is a Good Thing 🕴

It means attackers have been met with sufficient resistance that it's no longer worth their trouble and have moved on

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🔐 Coronavirus-themed spam surged 14,000% in two weeks says IBM 🔐

Since February, spam exploiting the novel coronavirus has jumped by 4,300% and 14,000% in the past 14 days, according to IBM X-Force, IBM's threat intelligence group.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🔐 Zoom 5.0: How to better secure meetings with the latest features 🔐

With the new 5.0 version of Zoom, the app has added features to help you protect your virtual meetings from Zoombombing and other unwanted intrusion.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🕴 The Price of Fame? Celebrities Face Unique Hacking Threats 🕴

Hackers are hitting the sports industry hard on social media and luring quarantined consumers with offers of free streaming services, a new report shows.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🔏 CPRA – a.k.a. CCPA 2.0 – Qualifies for 2020 Ballot 🔏

The California Privacy Rights Act, a new data privacy effort introduced to narrow the scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act, now has enough support to make it onto the November 2020 ballot.

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via "Subscriber Blog RSS Feed ".
🔐 How to protect yourself from coronavirus-related SMS spam 🔐

Spammers are sending text messages with deceptive links designed to exploit interest and fear around COVID-19, says AdaptiveMobile Security.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
InfinityBlack Dismantled After Selling Millions of Credentials

In the Europol-led takedown, police shut down databases with more than 170 million entries.

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via "Threatpost".
ATENTION New - CVE-2018-8956

ntpd in ntp 4.2.8p10, 4.2.8p11, 4.2.8p12 and 4.2.8p13 allow remote attackers to prevent a broadcast client from synchronizing its clock with a broadcast NTP server via soofed mode 3 and mode 5 packets. The attacker must either be a part of the same broadcast network or control a slave in that broadcast network that can capture certain required packets on the attacker's behalf and send them to the attacker.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
🕴 Microsoft Reportedly in Talks to Acquire CyberX 🕴

CyberX was founded in 2013 and has raised $48 million to build its cybersecurity platform for IoT and industrial control systems.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 Half of Companies Have Suffered a Cybersecurity Issue Amid COVID-19 Crisis 🕴

Survey shows 49% expect to experience a data breach or cybersecurity incident in the next month.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 Financial Phishing Attacks Take Off, Malware Declines 🕴

In the past year, the number of digital threats increased by nearly half as phishing swamped malware to become the most dominant attack technique.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 What is an 'Endpoint'? 🕴

Some companies' endpoint security strategies may now cover an ever-widening array of devices, as Dark Reading's latest State of Endpoint Security survey discovered.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🔐 Alarming number of pharma executive login credentials available on the Dark Web 🔐

A new report details major vulnerabilities among the executive suite at some of the largest pharmaceutical companies.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
Lazarus Group Hides macOS Spyware in 2FA Application

The Dacls RAT has been ported from an existing Linux version.

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via "Threatpost".
🕴 Attacks on WordPress Sites Surge 🕴

Defiant says it observed a 30-fold increase in attacks in just the past few days.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 Maze Ransomware Operators Step Up Their Game 🕴

Investigations show Maze ransomware operators leave "nothing to chance" when putting pressure on victims to pay.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
Police nab InfinityBlack hackers

Five alleged members of hacking group InfinityBlack got some unexpected visitors last week when Polish law enforcement arrested them.

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via "Naked Security".
Fake news Facebook accounts used coronavirus to attract followers

In April, the company yanked 1,887 misleading accounts, pages and groups tied to eight influencer networks building fake engagement.

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via "Naked Security".