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πŸ•΄ Employees Say They're Working From Home Without Security Guidance πŸ•΄

Working from home is new for many enterprise employees, yet many say they've received little in the way of new training or technology to keep them safe.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” 296 GB of Data from Police Departments Leaked Online πŸ”

An activist group posted nearly 300 gigabytes of data from police departments, including scanned documents, videos, emails, audio files, and more, online Friday.

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❌ Adobe Prompts Users to Uninstall Flash Player As EOL Date Looms ❌

Adobe will prompt Flash Player users to uninstall the application before the Dec. 31, 2020 end of life date hits.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ Firmware Flaw Allows Attackers to Evade Security on Some Home Routers πŸ•΄

Networking devices sold under at least one major brand have a firmware vulnerability that allows hackers to take control of the device, a cybersecurity firm claims.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ How to Wring Every Last Drop Out of Your Security Budget πŸ•΄

In the face of tighter budgets and lowered spending forecasts due to the pandemic, optimizing and improving the efficiency of security programs -- without sacrificing integrity -- has never been more important.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Microsoft Acquires IoT/OT Security Firm CyberX πŸ•΄

Deal extends Microsoft Azure for legacy industrial devices.

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❌ Report: β€˜BlueLeaks’ Exposes Sensitive Data From Police Departments ❌

DDoSecrets has published data from over 200 police departments, law enforcement training and support resources and fusion centers.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ Pandemic Accelerates Priceline's 'Coffee Shop' Remote-Access Strategy πŸ•΄

The travel-booking giant had been slowly starting to transition away from VPN dependence. Then COVID-19 happened, and suddenly 700 third-party call-center workers were working from home.

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⚠ β€˜BlueLeaks’ exposes sensitive files from hundreds of police departments ⚠

The journalist collective DDoSecrets published nearly 270GB of data on Juneteenth: the date commemorating the end of US enslavement.

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via "Naked Security".
❌ Remote Workers Pose New Security Risks ❌

Organizations sent workers home during COVID-19 lockdown without adequate security preparation.

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via "Threatpost".
❌ The Evolution of DevSecOps ❌

A recent DivvyCloud survey found that in 2019, a majority of respondents reported being in the final optimization stages of their cloud journey, with 59% indicating they are in the DevOps Optimization stage (an 11% increase from 2018).

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ 5 Steps for Implementing Multicloud Identity πŸ•΄

Why embracing, not fighting, decentralization will pave the way to smoother cloud migrations.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Hackbit Ransomware Attack Uses GuLoader, Malicious Microsoft Excel Attachments ❌

Recent spearphishing emails spread the Hackbit ransomware using malicious Microsoft Excel attachments and the GuLoader dropper.

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via "Threatpost".
⚠ United States wants HTTPS for all government sites, all the time ⚠

Making .GOV domains secure - it'll take "a few years" yet

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ›  Sifter 7.4 πŸ› 

Sifter is a osint, recon, and vulnerability scanner. It combines a plethora of tools within different module sets in order to quickly perform recon tasks, check network firewalling, enumerate remote and local hosts, and scan for the blue vulnerabilities within Microsoft systems and if unpatched, exploits them.

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via "Security Tool Files β‰ˆ Packet Storm".
πŸ” Shadow IT: It's a bigger threat than you think πŸ”

File sharing, remote work, and vulnerable employees are leaving company networks open to potential cyberattack

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ” Shadow IT: It's a bigger threat than you think πŸ”

File sharing, remote work, and vulnerable employees are leaving company networks open to potential cyberattack

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ Cybercrime Infrastructure Never Really Dies πŸ•΄

Despite the takedown of the "CyberBunker" threat operators in 2019, command-and-control traffic continues to report back to the defunct network address space.

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πŸ” How Women Make Engineering Great πŸ”

On International Women in Engineering Day, our CTO Debra Danielson gives examples of female engineers who have made a profound impact and why diversity in engineering matters.

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πŸ” Only 31% of Americans concerned with data security, despite 400% rise in cyberattacks πŸ”

Bad actors have flooded the enterprise with coronavirus-related attacks, but professionals working from home have other worries, Unisys Security found.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".