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โš  Facebookโ€™s down-ranking those โ€˜miracle cureโ€™ health posts we all hate โš 

Clickbait health/nutrition posts will sink in page rankings due to two ranking updates, Facebook announced.

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via "Naked Security".
โš  Open Sesame! Zipatoโ€™s smart hub hacked to open front doors โš 

The Zipato controller has three critical security flaws which could be used together by hackers to open your homeโ€™s doors for you, according to researchers.

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via "Naked Security".
โš  Why are they โ€œsmartโ€ locks if more money buys you less security? โš 

Smart locks are cool and useful - but they are also a great reminder that cybersecurity is all about value, not cost.

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via "Naked Security".
โš  Deepfake revenge porn now a crime in Virginia โš 

It's the first state to enact a deepfakes ban, but it's not going to be the last: laws are being considered in many other states.

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via "Naked Security".
โš  Mannequin Challenge videos teach computers to see โš 

An internet craze could change the way computers see, thanks to research published by Google.

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via "Naked Security".
โš  Bitcoin eats as much energy as Switzerland โš 

That's around seven gigawatts, equal to 0.21% of the world's supply: as much power as generated by seven Dungeness nuclear power plants.

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via "Naked Security".
โš  OpenPGP experts targeted by long-feared โ€˜poisoningโ€™ attack โš 

Somebody out there has taken a big dislike to Robert J. Hansen (โ€˜rjhโ€™) and Daniel Kahn Gillmor (โ€˜dkgโ€™), two well-regarded experts in the specialised world of OpenPGP email encryption.

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via "Naked Security".
๐Ÿ” Friday Five: 7/5 Edition ๐Ÿ”

Cracking a five year Facebook malware campaign, this week's CDN outage, and an app fined for leaking users' photos - catch up on the week's news with this recap!

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via "Subscriber Blog RSS Feed ".
๐Ÿ•ด Why Your GDPR Implementation Plan Needs CISOs & 'Legal Engineers' to Work Together ๐Ÿ•ด

Lawyers must step into the shoes of technical roles and craft legal guidance that can be easily put into use.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
โš  5 tips to stay secure on social media โš 

Social media isn't for everyone, but lots of us love it - so here's how to be in it and win it.

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via "Naked Security".
โŒ PGP Ecosystem Targeted in โ€˜Poisoningโ€™ Attacks โŒ

Two researchers are being singled out in what are called PGP poisoning or flood attacks that render the authentication tool unusable for victims.

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via "Threatpost".
๐Ÿ•ด Intelligent Authentication Market Grows to Meet Demand ๐Ÿ•ด

Confidence in user identity is critical to prevent fraud and theft, and companies are looking for new ways to get the necessary assurance.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
โŒ WordPress Plugin WP Statistics Patches XSS Flaw โŒ

A cross-site scripting vulnerability in WordPress plugin WP Statistics could have enabled full website takeover.

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via "Threatpost".
๐Ÿ•ด UK Forensics Firm Paid Ransom in Cyberattack ๐Ÿ•ด

Victim firm Eurofins Scientific handles more than 70,000 criminal cases per year in the UK.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
โŒ Data Breach Lessons from the Trenches โŒ

How companies can identify their own insecure data, remediate data breaches and proactively secure data against future attacks.

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via "Threatpost".
โš  Monday review โ€“ the hot 23 stories of the week โš 

From RDP BlueKeep's message for admins to Medtronic's recall of hackable insulin pumps - and everything in between.

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via "Naked Security".
โš  New Yearโ€™s eve gaming DDoSer lulz himself into a 27-month sentence โš 

Back in 2014, @DerpTrolling said he attacked sites simply based on requests from people who tweeted suggested targets.

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via "Naked Security".
โš  ISPs call Mozilla โ€˜Internet Villainโ€™ for promoting DNS privacy โš 

ISPA has shortlisted Mozilla for the sort of award that, on the face of it, no tech company should be keen to win - 2019โ€™s Internet Villain.

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via "Naked Security".
๐Ÿ•ด 7 Hot Cybersecurity Trends to Be Highlighted at Black Hat ๐Ÿ•ด

Just some of the research and ideas worth checking out at this year's 'security summer camp.'

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via "Dark Reading: ".
โš  Privacy and security risks as Sign In with Apple tweaks Open ID protocol โš 

An open letter from the OpenID Foundation says that Apple introduced potential risks when it diverged from the OpenID Connect protocol.

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via "Naked Security".
๐Ÿ” How to use multiplexing to speed up the SSH ๐Ÿ”

Improve the speed SSH can run commands on remote servers with the help of multiplexing.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".