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⚠ Power to the people! Google backtracks (a bit) on forced Chrome logins ⚠

Google thought it was a such a great idea to start logging you into everything when you logged into something... that it forgot to ask.

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ•΄ 7 Most Prevalent Phishing Subject Lines πŸ•΄

The most popular subject lines crafted to trick targets into opening malicious messages, gleaned from thousands of phishing emails.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
⚠ Mobile password managers vulnerable to phishing apps ⚠

Several leading Android-based password managers can be fooled into auto-filling login credentials on behalf of fake phishing apps.

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ•΄ Google To Let Users Disable Automatic Login to Chrome πŸ•΄

The decision comes days after security researcher had blasted company for jeopardizing user privacy with browser update.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Android App Verification Issues Pave Way For Phishing Attacks ❌

A research team suggested a new secure-by-design API after discovering design flaws in the way Android apps are verified by password managers.

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via "The first stop for security news | Threatpost ".
⚠ WhatsApp cofounder: β€œI sold my users’ privacy” ⚠

Regretful WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton has joined the ranks of the Silicon Valley mea-culpa-rati.

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via "Naked Security".
❌ iPhone XS Passcode Bypass Hack Exposes Contacts, Photos ❌

Bypass works on iOS 12 and Apple's latest iPhone XS model phones allowing an attacker to access contacts and photos.

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via "The first stop for security news | Threatpost ".
❌ Another Linux Kernel Bug Surfaces, Allowing Root Access ❌

Android, Debian and Ubuntu users are still at risk.

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via "The first stop for security news | Threatpost ".
πŸ•΄ Facebook Hacked, 50 Million Users Affected πŸ•΄

A vulnerability in Facebook's "View As" feature let attackers steal security tokens linked to 50 million accounts, the company confirms.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” Python is a hit with hackers, report finds πŸ”

Imperva: Up to 77 percent of the sites we monitor were attacked by a Python-based tool.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
❌ Facebook Data Breach Impacts Almost 50 Million Accounts ❌

Hackers exploited a flaw in Facebook’s code impacting its β€œView As” feature.

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via "The first stop for security news | Threatpost ".
⚠ Big Facebook breach: 50 million accounts affected ⚠

Facebook has suffered a data breach affecting almost 50 million accounts. Another 40 million have been reset as a "precautionary" measure.

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ” Facebook discloses network breach affecting 50 million user accounts πŸ”

Facebook said attackers exploited a vulnerability in its code that let them steal access tokens when users switched over to a public profile view via the "View As" feature.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ FBI IC3 Warns of RDP Vulnerability πŸ•΄

Government agencies remind users that RDP can be used for malicious purposes by criminal actors.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ 'Torii' Breaks New Ground For IoT Malware πŸ•΄

Stealth, persistence mechanism and ability to infect a wide swath of devices make malware dangerous and very different from the usual Mirai knockoffs, Avast says.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ 4 Traits of a Cyber-Resilient Culture πŸ•΄

Companies with a solid track record of cybersecurity share these practices and characteristics.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
⚠ Monday review – the hot 23 stories of the week ⚠

From the big Facebook breach to vulnerable Android password managers - catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days. It's weekly roundup time.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Monero fixes major β€˜burning bug’ flaw, preventing mass devaluation ⚠

The flaw arises from the use of stealth wallet addresses, an anonymity concept that's especially important to privacy-sensitive Monero users.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Facebook: turn off SMS 2FA if you don’t want your number used for ads ⚠

Facebook has been adding phone numbers registered for 2FA to the other data it uses to target people with advertising.

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via "Naked Security".
ATENTIONβ€Ό New - CVE-2015-9268

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS) before 2.49 has unsafe implicit linking against Version.dll. In other words, there is no protection mechanism in which a wrapper function resolves the dependency at an appropriate time during runtime.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".