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πŸ•΄ Tax Hacks: How Seasonal Scams Cause Yearlong Problems πŸ•΄

Tax season is marked with malware campaigns, tax fraud, and identity theft, with money and data flowing through an underground economy.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ 'Dragonblood' Vulnerabilities Seep Into WPA3 Secure Wifi Handshake πŸ•΄

A new set of vulnerabilities may put some early adopters of strong Wifi security at greater security risk.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ New 'HOPLIGHT' Malware Appears in Latest North Korean Attacks, Say DHS, FBI πŸ•΄

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security release malware analysis report, indicators of compromise for nine different executable files.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
⚠ Android phones transformed into anti-phishing security tokens ⚠

A new security feature allows users of Android 7 and later to use their smartphones to authenticate themselves to their Google accounts.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Flickr tackling online image theft with new AI service ⚠

Photo sharing website Flickr is trying to combat copyright infringement with a service that spots copies of its users' images online.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Feds say Russian 2016 election meddling spanned all US states ⚠

A multi-agency report has strengthened claims that Russia meddled with election systems in all 50 US states during the last presidential race.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Assange arrested, faces extradition for hacking ⚠

The Ecuadorean embassy finally decided it wasn't willing to shelter Julian Assange any more, so it let in UK police to arrest him.

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ” How IBM's expanding blockchain-based grocery store network will improve food safety πŸ”

Albertsons is the latest grocery store to adopt the blockchain-based system for tracing food from farm to store shelf.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ” Vulnerabilities discovered in industrial equipment increased 30% in 2018 πŸ”

As state-sponsored attackers increase their activity and cyberwar escalates, security researchers are focusing their attention on industrial systems to surface vulnerabilities.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ” Top 5 emerging risks businesses face πŸ”

With the onset of GDPR, privacy regulation compliance now tops talent shortages as the largest emerging business risk, according to Gartner.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
❌ ThreatList: Tax Scammers Launch a Raft of Fake Mobile Apps ❌

Convincing phishing pages and millions of suspicious apps are plaguing tax season.

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via "Threatpost".
❌ WordPress Yellow Pencil Plugin Flaws Actively Exploited ❌

Yet another Wordpress plugin, Yellow Pencil Visual Theme Customizer, is being exploited in the wild after two software vulnerabilities were discovered.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ Cloudy with a Chance of Security Breach πŸ•΄

Businesses must be aware of the security weaknesses of the public cloud and not assume that every angle is covered.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Home Office Apologizes for EU Citizen Data Exposure πŸ•΄

The Home Office has admitted to compromising private email addresses belonging to EU citizens hoping to settle in the UK.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ North Korea’s Hidden Cobra Strikes U.S. Targets with HOPLIGHT ❌

The custom malware is a spy tool and can also disrupt processes at U.S. assets.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ 8 'SOC-as-a-Service' Offerings πŸ•΄

These new cloud services seek to help companies figure out what their traditional SIEM alerts mean, plus how they can prioritize responses and improve their security operations.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Romanian Duo Convicted of Malware Scheme Infecting 400,000 Computers ❌

The duo are convicted of infecting 400,000 computers in the U.S. with malware and scamming victims out of millions of dollars.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ” Friday Five: 4/12 Edition πŸ”

A once defunct hacking forum returns, the New York Times on privacy, and spyware apps - catch up on the week's infosec news with this roundup!

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πŸ•΄ Romanians Convicted in Cybertheft Scheme πŸ•΄

Working out of Bucharest since 2007, a pair of criminals infected and controlled more than 400,000 individual computers, mostly in the US.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
ATENTIONβ€Ό New - CVE-2017-14199

A buffer overflow has been found in the Zephyr Project's getaddrinfo() implementation in 1.9.0 and 1.10.0.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
πŸ” 5 best password managers for Android πŸ”

If you're looking for a password manager for your Android device, Jack Wallen offers his list of what he considers to be the best five on the market.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".