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⚠ Review that! Fake TripAdvisor review peddler sent to jail ⚠

Jail time for fake reviews is β€œa landmark ruling for the Internet,” TripAdvisor said.

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ” Google reinstates www to URLs in Chrome after user backlash, but only temporarily πŸ”

Less than a week after Chrome was updated to hide the "www" from users, Google have put the subdomain back into the address bar, but only temporarily.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
⚠ Review that! Fake TripAdvisor review peddler sent to jail ⚠

Jail time for fake reviews is β€œa landmark ruling for the Internet,” TripAdvisor said.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Major US mobile carriers want to be your password ⚠

Project Verify from Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile aims to replace your password.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Blockchain hustler beats the house with smart contract hack ⚠

A hacker used their own code to tamper with a smart contract run by a betting company, and walked off with $24,000.

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via "Naked Security".
❌ Magecart Threat Group Racks Up More Hack Victims ❌

The threat group has racked up a list of victims including Feedify, Groopdealz and British Airways.

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via "The first stop for security news | Threatpost ".
πŸ” Why 31% of data breaches lead to employees getting fired πŸ”

North America is the region where C-Suite leaders are most likely to be blamed for a breach.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ” German manufacturers lose $50B to cyber attacks, SMBs at greatest risk πŸ”

A quarter of German manufacturing companies reported losing sensitive mobile phone data, according to a Bitkom survey.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ Cybersecurity Is Only 1 Part of Election Security πŸ•΄

Protecting the 2018 election cycle means fixing the information infrastructure.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Guccifer to Be Extradited to US for Prison Sentence πŸ•΄

Four-year, four-month term will follow a longer sentence in hacker's home country of Romania.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Five Weakest Links in Cybersecurity That Target the Supply Chain ❌

Third-party breaches have become an epidemic as cybercriminals target the weakest link. Organizations such as BestBuy, Sears, Delta and even NYU Medical Center are just a few that have felt the impact of cyberattacks through third-party vendors. The fallout from these breaches can be costly, as the average enterprise pays $1.23 million per incident, up […]

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via "The first stop for security news | Threatpost ".
πŸ•΄ Military, Government Users Just as Bad About Password Hygiene as Civilians πŸ•΄

New report comes out just as group of US senators chastise Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for not using multifactor authentication.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ EternalBlue Infections Persist πŸ•΄

Indonesia, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Egypt, Russia, China, among the top 10 nations with the most machines infected with the exploit.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ E.U.: Tech Giants Face Big Fines, 1 Hour Limit to Remove Extremist Content ❌

The rules would apply to all hosting service providers offering services in the E.U., regardless of size, even if they’re not based there.

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via "The first stop for security news | Threatpost ".
πŸ•΄ How Secure are our Voting Systems for November 2018? πŸ•΄

Anomali CEO Hugh Njemanze discusses the importance of sharing threat intelligence across the country's highly decentralized voting systems to safeguard the integrity of upcoming elections.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Researchers Heat Up Cold-Boot Attack That Works on All Laptops ❌

The attack bypasses BIOS mitigations for cold-boot compromise on models from Apple, Dell, Lenovo and all others made in the last 10 years.

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via "The first stop for security news | Threatpost ".
πŸ” 5 ways to block spam calls πŸ”

Annoying spam calls are on the rise, and here's how to block 'em, explains TechRepublic's Tom Merritt

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
⚠ Monday review – the hot 25 stories of the week ⚠

From the hidden camera found in an AirBnb room and the smart TVs now admitting to viewers they spied on them to Google Chrome creating passwords for you, and more!

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Facebook’s robot coders step into the future of programming ⚠

Like a good junior programmer, Facebook's AI is cutting its teeth with a bit of bug fixing.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ On the hook! Phishing trip nets β€œBarbara” 5 years and whopping fine ⚠

The romance and business email compromise scammer pled guilty to fraud amounting to $25m.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Deepfake pics and videos set off Facebook’s fake news detector ⚠

The social network is expanding its effort to stamp out fake news.

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via "Naked Security".