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🕴 HackerOne Reveals Top 10 Bug-Bounty Programs 🕴

Rankings based on total bounties paid, top single bounty paid, time to respond, and more.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 Russian Cybercriminal Behind CardPlanet Sentenced to 9 Years 🕴

Aleksei Burkov will go to federal prison for operating two websites built to facilitate payment card fraud, hacking, and other crimes.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 University of California SF Pays Ransom After Medical Servers Hit 🕴

As one of at least three universities hit in June, the school paid $1.14 million to cybercriminals following an attack on "several IT systems" in the UCSF School of Medicine.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
ATENTION New - CVE-2019-20416

Affected versions of Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript via a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the project configuration feature. The affected versions are before version 8.3.0.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
ATENTION New - CVE-2019-20415

Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center in affected versions allows remote attackers to modify logging and profiling settings via a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability. The affected versions are before version 7.13.3, and from version 8.0.0 before 8.1.0.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
iOS 14 flags TikTok, 53 other apps spying on iPhone clipboards

TikTok, for one, promised to knock this off months ago but was caught red-handed, still at it, by the new clipboard notification in iOS 14.

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via "Naked Security".
ATENTION New - CVE-2017-18922

It was discovered that websockets.c in LibVNCServer prior to 0.9.12 did not properly decode certain WebSocket frames. A malicious attacker could exploit this by sending specially crafted WebSocket frames to a server, causing a heap-based buffer overflow.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
How to Safeguard Data When the Majority of Your Workforce is Remote

More employees working remotely most likely means an increased reliance on cloud services and applications.

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via "Threatpost".
🔐 Botnet Encyclopedia helps security teams analyze suspicious activity in data centers 🔐

New resource lists source IPs, connect-back servers, and attack flows for established campaigns and emerging threats.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
CISA: Nation-State Attackers Likely to Exploit Palo Alto Networks Bug

An authentication-bypass vulnerability allows attackers to access network assets without credentials when SAML is enabled on certain firewalls and enterprise VPNs.

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via "Threatpost".
🕴 3 Ways to Flatten the Health Data Hacking Curve 🕴

With more people working from home, health data security is more challenging but vitally important. These tips can help safeguard healthcare data.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 3 Years After NotPetya, Many Organizations Still in Danger of Similar Attacks 🕴

The same gaps that enabled ransomware to spread remain in patching, network segmentation, backup practices, security experts say.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
ATENTION New - CVE-2019-20893

An issue was discovered in Activision Infinity Ward Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 through 2019-12-11. PartyHost_HandleJoinPartyRequest has a buffer overflow vulnerability and can be exploited by using a crafted joinParty packet. This can be utilized to conduct arbitrary code execution on a victim's machine.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
🕴 Profile of the Post-Pandemic CISO 🕴

Projects that were high priorities before the COVID-19 outbreak have taken a back seat to new business needs. For security leaders that has meant new responsibilities that could very well stick around in the pandemic's aftermath.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🔐 Why organizations often have trouble containing cyberattacks 🔐

Many companies are hampered by the use of too many security tools and the lack of specific playbooks for common attacks, says IBM Security.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
ATENTION New - CVE-2019-19163

A Vulnerability in the firmware of COMMAX WallPad(CDP-1020MB) allow an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to execute arbitrary code, because of a using the old version of MySQL.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
ATENTION New - CVE-2019-19161

CyMiInstaller322 ActiveX which runs MIPLATFORM downloads files required to run applications. A vulnerability in downloading files by CyMiInstaller322 ActiveX caused by an attacker to download randomly generated DLL files and MIPLATFORM to load those DLLs due to insufficient verification.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
UCSF Pays $1.14M After NetWalker Ransomware Attack

UCSF has paid more than $1 million after a ransomware attack encrypted data related to "important" academic research on several servers.

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via "Threatpost".
Google joins Apple in limiting web certificates to one year

Is it fair to expect everyone to renew all their web certificates every year? Apple says yes, and now Google does too.

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via "Naked Security".
🕴 CISA Issues Advisory on Home Routers 🕴

The increase in work-from-home employees raises the importance of home router security.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🔐 How to protect your remote desktop environment from brute force attacks 🔐

An RDP compromise provides a cybercriminal with a backdoor for ransomware and other types of malware, says security provider ESET.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".