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โŒ Twitter: Epic Account Hack Caused by Mobile Spearphishing โŒ

Hackers "mislead certain employees" to gain access to internal tools to take over high-profile accounts and push out a Bitcoin scam.

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via "Threatpost".
๐Ÿ•ด 3 Ways Social Distancing Can Strengthen your Network ๐Ÿ•ด

Security teams can learn a lot from the current pandemic to make modern hybrid business networks stronger and more resilient. Here's how.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
ATENTIONโ€ผ New - CVE-2020-10731

A flaw was found in the nova_libvirt container provided by the Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16, where it does not have SELinux enabled. This flaw causes sVirt, an important isolation mechanism, to be disabled for all running virtual machines.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
๐Ÿ” Breach of high-profile Twitter accounts caused by phone spear phishing attack ๐Ÿ”

Twitter confirmed its employees were tricked into giving hackers their credentials, which gave them access to the accounts of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Joe Biden, and others.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
โŒ Anti-NATO Disinformation Campaign Leveraged CMS Compromises โŒ

Researchers uncovered a disinformation campaign aiming to discredit NATO via fake news content on compromised news websites.

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via "Threatpost".
โŒ CWT Travel Agency Faces $4.5M Ransom in Cyberattack, Report โŒ

The corporate-travel leader has confirmed an attack that knocked systems offline.

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via "Threatpost".
๐Ÿ•ด Twitter: Employees Compromised in Phone Spear-Phishing Attack ๐Ÿ•ด

The attack earlier this month started with a spear-phishing attack targeting Twitter employees, the company says in a new update.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
๐Ÿ” Top 6 cybersecurity trends to watch for at Black Hat USA 2020 ๐Ÿ”

Experts weigh in to share their thoughts on the hottest topics to expect at this year's all-digital Black Hat conference.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
๐Ÿ” That job offer in your inbox might be part of a North Korean cyberattack ๐Ÿ”

Professionals in the aerospace and defense industries should watch out; a wave of fake job offers containing malicious documents have been spotted in the wild by McAfee researchers.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
๐Ÿ•ด New Initiative Links Cybersecurity Pros to Election Officials ๐Ÿ•ด

A University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy initiative will build a database of cybersecurity volunteers.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
๐Ÿ” Friday Five: 7/31 Edition ๐Ÿ”

The FBI warns of new DDoS attack vectors, iOS14 allows unexpected prying behavior on Instagram, and NCSC research reveals the cybersecurity sector needs improvement in inclusion - catch up on all the week's news with the Friday Five.

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via "Subscriber Blog RSS Feed ".
๐Ÿ” Security analysts: Industry has not solved the talent gap or provided clear career paths ๐Ÿ”

New survey finds that cybersecurity professionals want more training to keep up with the threat landscape and learn new software platforms.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
๐Ÿ” Top 10 apps every iOS user should download ๐Ÿ”

Check out a developer's picks of 10 essential iOS apps, which focus on security, productivity, and more.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
๐Ÿ›  Sifter 9.01 ๐Ÿ› 

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 โ‰ˆ Packet Storm".
โŒ Authorities Arrest Alleged 17-Year-Old โ€˜Mastermindโ€™ Behind Twitter Hack โŒ

Three have been charged in alleged connection with the recent high-profile Twitter hack - including a 17-year-old teen from Florida who is the reported "mastermind" behind the attack.

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via "Threatpost".
โš  Travel company CWT avoids ransomware derailment by paying $4.5m blackmail demand โš 

US travel company CWT has reportedly coughed up $4.5m to ransomware crooks who stole data and scrambled files.

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via "Naked Security".
๐Ÿ•ด 3 Arrested for Massive Twitter Breach ๐Ÿ•ด

Three individuals aged 17, 19, and 22 have been charged for their alleged roles in the massive July 15 Twitter attack.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
โŒ 4 Unpatched Bugs Plague Grandstream ATAs for VoIP Users โŒ

The flaws have been confirmed by Grandstream, but no firmware update has yet been issued.

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via "Threatpost".
ATENTIONโ€ผ New - CVE-2019-11286

VMware GemFire versions prior to 9.10.0, 9.9.1, 9.8.5, and 9.7.5, and VMware Tanzu GemFire for VMs versions prior to 1.11.0, 1.10.1, 1.9.2, and 1.8.2, contain a JMX service available to the network which does not properly restrict input. A remote authenticated malicious user may request against the service with a crafted set of credentials leading to remote code execution.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
โš  Twitter hack โ€“ three suspects charged in the US โš 

Three people have been fingered for the recent Twitter hack in which 45 high-profle accounts were taken over.

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via "Naked Security".