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πŸ” Why you should use a Managed Security Service Provider instead of in-house security πŸ”

​MSSPs provide flexibility, expertise, and efficiencies in scale. Learn about more advantages below.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ Open Source & Machine Learning: A Dynamic Duo πŸ•΄

If machine learning can be demonstrated to solve particular use cases in an open forum, more analysts will be willing to adopt the technology in their workflows.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Access Control Lists: 6 Key Principals to Keep in Mind πŸ•΄

Build them carefully and maintain them rigorously, and ACLs will remain a productive piece of your security infrastructure for generations of hardware to come.before adding them to the toolbox.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Apple Blasts Facebook Over Data-Sucking β€˜Research’ App ❌

Another one of Facebook's apps has been banned from Apple's ecosystem due to the level of data that it collects and how it was distributed.

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via "Threatpost | The first stop for security news".
πŸ” Centrally manage account security by joining ESXi hosts to Active Directory πŸ”

VMware host servers require advanced software to manage them en masse. Admins can restrict access using AD services to authenticate and manage user account security.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
❌ Stealthy Malware Disguises Itself as a WordPress License Key ❌

A spam injector hides in plain site within WordPress theme files.

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via "Threatpost | The first stop for security news".
πŸ•΄ Discover Issues New Cards Following Data Breach πŸ•΄

The credit card company reports Discover's card systems were not involved in the breach, discovered in August 2018.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
⚠ Ep. 017 – DNS hijacking, a weird breach and a cybersecurity confession [PODCAST] ⚠

Here's the latest Naked Security podcast - enjoy!

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ” Apple revokes Facebook's ability to deploy apps internally amid privacy scandal dispute πŸ”

Facebook allegedly violated Apple's developer policy by operating a "focus group" paying users $20/month to agree to activity monitoring, and is now paying the price.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ Access Control Lists: 6 Key Principals to Keep in Mind πŸ•΄

Build them carefully and maintain them rigorously, and ACLs will remain a productive piece of your security infrastructure for generations of hardware to come.before adding them to the toolbox.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Yes, You Can Patch Stupid πŸ•΄

Before you start calling users stupid, remember that behind every stupid user is a stupider security professional.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Attackers Can Track Kids’ Locations via Connected Watches ❌

A severe flaw exposes sensitive information for 35,000 kids and 20,000 individual accounts.

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via "Threatpost | The first stop for security news".
πŸ•΄ Massive DDoS Attack Generates 500 Million Packets per Second πŸ•΄

January 10 torrent involved nearly four times as many packets as last year's huge attack on GitHub, says Imperva.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Rubrik Data Leak is Another Cloud Misconfiguration Horror Story πŸ•΄

A server security mishap exposed vast stores of data belonging to clients of Rubrik, a security and cloud management firm.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Justice Dept. Alerting Victims of North Korean Botnet Infections πŸ•΄

US officials disrupt North Korea's Joanap attack infrastructure.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
ATENTIONβ€Ό New - CVE-2017-18360

In change_port_settings in drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.3, local users could cause a denial of service by division-by-zero in the serial device layer by trying to set very high baud rates.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
⚠ Apple kicks Facebook’s snoopy Research app out of the App Store ⚠

It was paying people, including teens, up to $20 to install an app that got root access for β€œnearly limitless access,” encryption or no.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Phone cloner gets 65 months in jail ⚠

A US court has sentenced a man to over five years for his part in a massive telecommunications fraud involving stolen cellphone accounts and reprogrammed phones.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ 14k HIV+ records leaked, Singapore says sorry ⚠

Singapore's Ministry of Health said the HIV status of 14,200 people, plus confidential data of 2,400 of their contacts, is in the possession of somebody who's not authorized to have it and who's published it online.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Update now! Chrome and Firefox patch security flaws ⚠

Google and Mozilla are tidying up security features and patching vulnerabilities in Chrome and Firefox for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

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via "Naked Security".