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❌ Shoring Up the 2020 Election: Secure Vote Tallies Aren’t the Problem ❌

With many in the public sphere warning about a potential compromise of the integrity of the Presidential Election, security researchers instead flag online resources and influence campaigns as the biggest problem areas.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ” IoT botnets: Smart homes ripe for a new type of cyberattack πŸ”

The burgeoning smart home device market has given rise to digital intrusion and potential energy market manipulation on a massive scale.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ The Fatal Flaw in Data Security πŸ•΄

Simply stated: No matter how sophisticated your security software is, data cannot be simultaneously used and secured. But that may be changing soon.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Lazarus Group Targets Cryptocurrency Firms Via LinkedIn Messages ❌

The North Korean-linked APT's latest campaign shows that it is shifting focus to target the cryptocurrency and financial verticals.

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via "Threatpost".
❌ Safari Bug Revealed After Apple Takes Nearly a Year to Patch ❌

Polish security researcher unveiled the flaw in a cross-browser sharing API that could allow attackers to steal user files.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ›  Sifter 9.5 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›  Falco 0.25.0 πŸ› 

Sysdig falco is a behavioral activity monitoring agent that is open source and comes with native support for containers. Falco lets you define highly granular rules to check for activities involving file and network activity, process execution, IPC, and much more, using a flexible syntax. Falco will notify you when these rules are violated. You can think about falco as a mix between snort, ossec and strace.

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via "Security Tool Files β‰ˆ Packet Storm".
πŸ•΄ Palo Alto Networks to Acquire The Crypsis Group for $265M πŸ•΄

This is the latest in a series of acquisitions that Palo Alto has made since 2018.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Three Easy Ways to Avoid Meow-like Database Attacks πŸ•΄

The largest problem facing database security today is the disconnect between security teams and DBAs beginning from the moment of configuration and continuing throughout the database lifecycle.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” DOJ Discusses China's Efforts to Steal US IP πŸ”

John Demers, the Justice Department's top national security official, said that 80% of state-connected espionage cases relate to China.

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via "Subscriber Blog RSS Feed ".
πŸ•΄ Online Business Fraud Down, Consumer Fraud Up πŸ•΄

Criminals are changing tactics to match changing business conditions in the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” How phishing attacks have exploited Amazon Web Services accounts πŸ”

Phishing campaigns could compromise business data and use Amazon's cloud platform to launch further attacks, says KnowBe4.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ Phishing Attack Used Box to Land in Victim Inboxes πŸ•΄

A phishing attack targeting government and security organizations used a legitimate Box page with Microsoft 365 branding to trick victims.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Election Security's Sticky Problem: Attackers Who Don't Attack Votes πŸ•΄

If election defenders are protecting votes, and adversaries are attacking something else entirely, both sides might claim success, "Operation BlackOut" simulation shows.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Four More Bugs Patched in Microsoft’s Azure Sphere IoT Platform ❌

Researchers have unearthed more vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s IoT security solution.

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via "Threatpost".
ATENTIONβ€Ό New - CVE-2019-14904

A flaw was found in the solaris_zone module from the Ansible Community modules. When setting the name for the zone on the Solaris host, the zone name is checked by listing the process with the 'ps' bare command on the remote machine. An attacker could take advantage of this flaw by crafting the name of the zone and executing arbitrary commands in the remote host. Ansible Engine 2.7.15, 2.8.7, and 2.9.2 as well as previous versions are affected.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
❌ How to Write a Cybersecurity Playbook During a Pandemic ❌

IT teams have had to learn to be dynamic as workforces continue to shift strategies while COVID-19 drags on.

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via "Threatpost".
❌ Medical Data Leaked on GitHub Due to Developer Errors ❌

Up to 200,000 patient records from Office 365 and Google G Suite exposed by hardcoded credentials and other improper access controls.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ Deep Fake: Setting the Stage for Next-Gen Social Engineering πŸ•΄

Humans are susceptible to normalcy bias, which may leave us vulnerable to disinformation that reinforces our beliefs.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” What a year of penetration testing data can reveal about the state of cybersecurity πŸ”

From web app flaws to a lack of 2FA, Rapid7 found lots of common soft targets in the networks it breached on behalf of clients.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
❌ Disinformation Spurs a Thriving Industry as U.S. Election Looms ❌

Threat actors are becoming increasingly sophisticated in launching disinformation campaigns - and staying under the radar to avoid detection from Facebook, Twitter and other platforms.

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via "Threatpost".