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πŸ” Hacking for the Greater Good Has Never Been Easier πŸ”

Experts on a panel at Black Hat stressed Wednesday that there's never been a greater need for hackers and public interest technologists to foster a safe digital society.

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πŸ•΄ Researchers Show Vulnerabilities in Facial Recognition πŸ•΄

The algorithms that check for a user's 'liveness' have blind spots that can lead to vulnerabilities.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Black Hat 2019: Security Culture Is Everyone's Culture πŸ•΄

In his Black Hat USA keynote, Square's Dino Dai Zovi discussed lessons learned throughout his cybersecurity career and why culture trumps strategy.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Black Hat 2019: 5G Security Flaw Allows MiTM, Targeted Attacks ❌

Academic researchers carry out attacks on high-end commercial devices as well as narrowband IoT sensors.

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via "Threatpost".
❌ Black Hat 2019: Microsoft Protocol Flaw Leaves Azure Users Open to Attack ❌

At Black Hat USA 2019, researchers showed how a previously-disclosed flaw on Windows systems that could allow arbitrary code execution could also impact Hyper-V.

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via "Threatpost".
⚠ Microsoft puts another nail in VBScript coffin ⚠

Listen up, VBScript fans: your favourite scripting language's days are numbered.

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via "Naked Security".
❌ DEF CON 2019: 35 Bugs in Office Printers Offer Hackers an Open Door ❌

A raft of bugs in six popular models can allow a hacker to wreak havoc on a corporate network.

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via "Threatpost".
❌ Black Hat 2019: WhatsApp Users Still Open to Message Manipulation ❌

Attack vectors disclosed last year are still fully exploitable, researchers demoed at Black Hat USA 2019.

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via "Threatpost".
⚠ S2 Ep3: Ransomware, surveillance and data theft – Naked Security Podcast ⚠

Episode 3 of the podcast is now live. This week, host Anna Brading is joined by Paul Ducklin, Mark Stockley and Ben Jones.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ More than 2m AT&T phones illegally unlocked by bribed insiders ⚠

The alleged, now indicted ringleader paid more than $1m in bribes to insiders who planted malware and hardware for remote unlocking.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Twitter may have shared your data with its ad partners without your permission ⚠

Some user data, such as country and device type, was exposed to some advertisers for over a year.

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ•΄ Slow Your Roll Before Disclosing a Security Incident πŸ•΄

Transparency rules, but taking the right amount of time to figure out what happened will go a long way toward setting the record straight.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
⚠ Cisco 220 Series Smart Switch owners told to apply urgent patch ⚠

Businesses running any of Cisco’s 220 Series Smart Switches have some urgent patching work on their hands.

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ•΄ WhatsApp Messages Can Be Intercepted, Manipulated πŸ•΄

Check Point security researchers demonstrate how a dangerous security weakness in the messaging application can be abused to spread fake news and carry out online scams.

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πŸ•΄ Enterprises Must Be Wary of Ransomware Targeting Network File Shares & Cloud Assets πŸ•΄

New research shows that criminals are evolving ransomware attacks against servers, network hosts, and IaaS cloud assets in search of bigger payoffs from businesses.

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❌ The Threat in the Cloud: Phishing Abuses Amazon AWS S3 Buckets ❌

An ongoing campaign is hosting its phishing landing pages on enterprise-class public cloud storage services -- a nascent trend meant to throw defenders off.

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via "Threatpost".
❌ Ransomware Sees Triple-Digit Spike in Corporate Detections ❌

A pair of reports released at Black Hat mark the huge shift away from targeting consumers.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ Yes, FaceApp Really Could Be Sending Your Data to Russia πŸ•΄

FaceApp has an unprecedented level of access to data from 150 million users. What could its endgame be? We unpack three potential risks.

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πŸ” Russian phishing campaign using AWS to host landing pages designed to avoid detection πŸ”

Assets used as part of phishing campaigns are being hosted on AWS, with heavy XOR obfuscation to limit detection, according to a Proofpoint report.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ” Ransomware attacks on businesses up 365% this year πŸ”

Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting businesses with ransomware instead of consumers for a bigger payout, according to Malwarebytes.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
⚠ Update your iPhone – remote control holes revealed by researchers ⚠

You might not think your phone is as exposed as an internet server - but it's handling plenty of untrusted data from unknown sources!

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via "Naked Security".