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❌ 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".
πŸ•΄ Remote Work Exacerbating Data Sprawl πŸ•΄

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: ".
πŸ›  nfstream 6.1.3 πŸ› 

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 β‰ˆ Packet Storm".
πŸ•΄ Nearly 70% of IT & Security Pros Hone Their Cyber Skills Outside of Work πŸ•΄

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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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” Tech jobs: These are the skills most in demand as companies change their priorities πŸ”

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".
πŸ” 75% of AppSec practitioners see a growing cultural divide between AppSec and developers πŸ”

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".
πŸ•΄ Permission Management & the Goldilocks Conundrum πŸ•΄

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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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ 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".
πŸ•΄ Microsoft Extends Data Loss Prevention to Cloud App Security πŸ•΄

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

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Can Schools Pass Their Biggest Cybersecurity Test Yet? πŸ•΄

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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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ 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".
πŸ•΄ Startup Aims to Map and Track All the IT and Security Things πŸ•΄

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

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ New Google Search Hacks Push Viruses & Porn πŸ•΄

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

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” Georgia Clinic Pays $1.5M to Settle HIPAA Noncompliance πŸ”

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

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πŸ” Four ways CISOs can move enterprise security into the new normal πŸ”

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".
πŸ›  OpenSSL Toolkit 1.1.1h πŸ› 

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 β‰ˆ Packet Storm".
❌ Google Chrome Bugs Open Browsers to Attack ❌

Google's new release of Chrome 85.0.4183.121 for Windows, Mac, and Linux fixes 10 security flaws.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ” How to create a secure username πŸ”

Passwords are the most important factor for securing your accounts. But you need to pay attention to your usernames as well, says NordPass.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".