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🕴 'Dark Overlord' Cyber Extortionist Pleads Guilty 🕴

Nathan Wyatt was sentenced to five years in prison after changing a previously not guilty plea.

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🕴 'Dark Overlord' Cyber Extortionist Pleads Guilty 🕴

Nathan Wyatt was sentenced to five years in prison after changing a previously not guilty plea.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
Fileless Malware Tops Critical Endpoint Threats for 1H 2020

When it comes to endpoint security, a handful of threats make up the bulk of the most serious attack tools and tactics.

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via "Threatpost".
🕴 Remote Work Exacerbating Data Sprawl 🕴

More than three-quarters of IT executives worry that data sprawl puts their data at risk, especially with employees working from insecure home networks, survey finds.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🛠 nfstream 6.1.3 🛠

nfstream is a Python package providing fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with online or offline network data both easy and intuitive. It aims to be the fundamental high-level building block for doing practical, real world network data analysis in Python. Additionally, it has the broader goal of becoming a common network data processing framework for researchers providing data reproducibility across experiments.

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via "Security Tool Files ≈ Packet Storm".
🕴 Nearly 70% of IT & Security Pros Hone Their Cyber Skills Outside of Work 🕴

New research shows how security skills are lacking across multiple IT disciplines as well - including network engineers, sys admins, and cloud developers.

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🔐 Tech jobs: These are the skills most in demand as companies change their priorities 🔐

Keeping the hackers out remains a top priority but firms are also looking at new areas of investment.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🔐 75% of AppSec practitioners see a growing cultural divide between AppSec and developers 🔐

Thirty-nine percent of developers said the security team is responsible for securing apps, while 67% of AppSec practitioners said their teams are responsible, according to a new study.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🕴 Permission Management & the Goldilocks Conundrum 🕴

In today's COVID-19 era, managing access has become even more difficult, especially for large organizations. Here's how to get it "just right."

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Google Cloud Buckets Exposed in Rampant Misconfiguration

A too-large percentage of cloud databases containing highly sensitive information are publicly available, an analysis shows.

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via "Threatpost".
Activision Refutes Claims of 500K-Account Hack

The Call of Duty behemoth said that the reports of widespread hacks are false.

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via "Threatpost".
Firefox 81 Release Kills High-Severity Code-Execution Bugs

Mozilla has fixed three high-severity flaws with the release of Firefox 81 and Firefox ESR 78.3.

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via "Threatpost".
Microsoft Overhauls Patch Tuesday Security Update Guide

Microsoft announced a new Security Guide to help cybersecurity profession more quickly untangle relevant bugs in its monthly security bulletins.

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via "Threatpost".
🕴 Microsoft Extends Data Loss Prevention to Cloud App Security 🕴

The update, one of several announced today, is intended to help employees remain compliant when handling data across cloud applications.

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🕴 Can Schools Pass Their Biggest Cybersecurity Test Yet? 🕴

Understaffed, underfunded, and underequipped, IT teams in the K-12 sector face a slew of challenges amid remote and hybrid learning models. Here's where they can begin to protect their schools against cyberattacks.

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Known Citrix Workspace Bug Open to New Attack

Windows MSI files provide an opening for attackers even though the bug was mostly patched in July.

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via "Threatpost".
🕴 Startup Aims to Map and Track All the IT and Security Things 🕴

Security service JupiterOne spins off from a healthcare service provider's homegrown technology.

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🕴 New Google Search Hacks Push Viruses & Porn 🕴

Three incidents demonstrate how cybercriminals leverage the scourge of black-hat search engine optimization to manipulate search results.

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🔏 Georgia Clinic Pays $1.5M to Settle HIPAA Noncompliance 🔏

An investigation by HHS OCR at this clinic uncovered "longstanding, systemic noncompliance with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules."

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🔐 Four ways CISOs can move enterprise security into the new normal 🔐

Security is changing rapidly, and the COVID-19 pandemic hasn't helped. A Cisco roundtable of chief information security officer advisers plotted the course for a secure future.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🛠 OpenSSL Toolkit 1.1.1h 🛠

OpenSSL is a robust, fully featured Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide.

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via "Security Tool Files ≈ Packet Storm".