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โŒ Electrolux, Others Conned Out of Big Money by BEC Scammer โŒ

Kenenty Hwan Kim has pleaded guilty to swindling the appliance giant and other companies in a set of elaborate schemes.

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via "Threatpost".
๐Ÿ” Friday Five: 6/5 Edition ๐Ÿ”

The city of Minneapolis hit with a DDoS attack, Zoom's new security policy causes social media uproar, and a wave of cyber-attacks target anti-racism sites - catch up on the week's news with the Friday Five.

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via "Subscriber Blog RSS Feed ".
๐Ÿ›  Faraday 3.11.1 ๐Ÿ› 

Faraday is a tool that introduces a new concept called IPE, or Integrated Penetration-Test Environment. It is a multiuser penetration test IDE designed for distribution, indexation and analysis of the generated data during the process of a security audit. The main purpose of Faraday is to re-use the available tools in the community to take advantage of them in a multiuser way.

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via "Security Tool Files โ‰ˆ Packet Storm".
โŒ FTC Slams Childrenโ€™s App Developer for COPPA Violations โŒ

Children's app developer HyperBeard must pay $150,000 after the FTC claimed it violated privacy laws.

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via "Threatpost".
๐Ÿ•ด Spear-Phishing Campaign Hits Developer Collaboration System Users ๐Ÿ•ด

Users of Zeplin, a popular developer and designer collaboration system, have been hit with new waves of spear-phishing attacks in the last month.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
๐Ÿ•ด Q&A: Eugene Spafford on the Risks of Internet Voting ๐Ÿ•ด

Allowing people to cast their ballots online to circumvent coronavirus-related health concerns introduces problems that we simply don't know how to manage, says the Purdue University professor and security leader.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
โš  Monday review โ€“ the hot 15 stories of the week โš 

Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.

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via "Naked Security".
โŒ Can Governments Defeat Nation-State Attacks on Critical Infrastructures? โŒ

The one cyber risk that governments are much better at controlling than we are is insider threats. Governments have been dealing with people threats for centuries and have powerful tools at their disposal for such investigations.

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via "Threatpost".
๐Ÿ” Ransomware: Consumers would hold CEOs personally responsible for attacks ๐Ÿ”

Some people believe the CEO of a company hit by ransomware should pay a fine, resign, or even be sent to prison, says Veritas.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
๐Ÿ•ด Safeguard Your Remote Workforce ๐Ÿ•ด

DDoS attacks on VPN servers can not only bring remote work to a standstill but also cut off admins from accessing their systems. Here are three ways to stay safer.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
๐Ÿ” How open source software vulnerabilities create risk for organizations ๐Ÿ”

Security flaws in open source software have increased and can take a long time to be added to the National Vulnerability Database, says RiskSense.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
๐Ÿ›  Bing.com Hostname / IP Enumerator 1.0.3 ๐Ÿ› 

This tool enumerates hostnames from Bing.com for an IP address. Bing.com is Microsoft's search engine which has an IP: search parameter. Written in Bash for Linux. Requires wget.

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via "Security Tool Files โ‰ˆ Packet Storm".
๐Ÿ›  UFONet 1.5 ๐Ÿ› 

UFONet abuses OSI Layer 7-HTTP to create/manage 'zombies' and to conduct different attacks using GET/POST, multithreading, proxies, origin spoofing methods, cache evasion techniques, etc.

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via "Security Tool Files โ‰ˆ Packet Storm".
๐Ÿ›  OpenStego Free Steganography Solution 0.7.4 ๐Ÿ› 

OpenStego is a tool implemented in Java for generic steganography, with support for password-based encryption of the data. It supports plugins for various steganographic algorithms (currently, only Least Significant Bit algorithm is supported for images).

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via "Security Tool Files โ‰ˆ Packet Storm".
๐Ÿ” Ransomware attack: Why a small business paid the $150,000 ransom ๐Ÿ”

The CFO of a small company that was the victim of a ransomware attack and reveals why they paid the ransom (in Bitcoin) to gain back control of their systems.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
โŒ Phishing Attack Hits German Coronavirus Task Force โŒ

More than 100 executives at a multinational company that's part of a German task force for creating coronavirus protective gear, were targeted in an ongoing phishing attack.

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via "Threatpost".
โŒ SMBGhost RCE Exploit Threatens Corporate Networks โŒ

The release of a PoC for the Windows flaw known as "SMBGhost" could set off cyberattack waves, CISA warned.

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via "Threatpost".
๐Ÿ” Ransomware attack: Why a small business paid the $150,000 ransom ๐Ÿ”

The CFO of a small company that was the victim of a ransomware attack and reveals why they paid the ransom (in Bitcoin) to gain back control of their systems.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
โš  Double-crossing ransomware decryptor scrambles your files again! โš 

Just when you thought a bad thing could get no worse...

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via "Naked Security".
๐Ÿ•ด Flaws Found in Some Open Source Projects Exploited More Often ๐Ÿ•ด

A study of major open source projects finds that 3.3% of vulnerabilities are exploited, but the rate of exploitation varies significantly.

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via "Dark Reading: ".