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ATENTIONβ€Ό New - CVE-2015-9303

The simple-share-buttons-adder plugin before 6.0.0 for WordPress has XSS.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
πŸ•΄ Security Pros, Congress Reps Talk National Cybersecurity at DEF CON πŸ•΄

Cybersecurity and government leaders discussed why Congress is unprepared for a major cyberattack and how the two parties can collaborate.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ 4 Dating Apps Pinpoint Users’ Precise Locations – and Leak the Data ❌

Grindr, Romeo, Recon and 3fun were found to expose users' exact locations, just by knowing a user name.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ Hackers Can Hurt Victims with Noise πŸ•΄

Research presented at DEF CON shows that attackers can hijack Wi-Fi- and Bluetooth-connected speakers to produce damaging sounds.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon Blasted For Data Privacy Policies ❌

A U.S. senator is giving the four telecommunications companies until Sept. 4 to outline how they plan to better protect customer data privacy.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ FBI Plans to Monitor Social Media May Spark Privacy Issues πŸ•΄

A new initiative to pull data from social media platforms may clash with policies prohibiting the use of information for mass surveillance.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Security Flaws Discovered in 40 Microsoft-Certified Device Drivers πŸ•΄

Attackers can use vulnerable drivers to escalate privilege and execute malicious code in every part of the system.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” Famous con man Frank Abagnale: Crime is 4,000 times easier today πŸ”

Frank Abagnale, the real life inspiration behind the Spielberg hit movie, "Catch Me If You Can" talks to TechRepublic's Karen Roby about cybersecurity, passwords and where executives go wrong.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ Researchers Show How SQLite Can Be Modified to Attack Apps πŸ•΄

New technique involves query hijacking to trigger a wide range of memory safety issues within the widely used database engine, Check Point says.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” Famous con man Frank Abagnale: Crime is 4,000 times easier today πŸ”

Frank Abagnale, the real life inspiration behind the Spielberg hit, "Catch Me If You Can" talks to TechRepublic's Karen Roby about cybersecurity, passwords and where executives go wrong.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ DEF CON Voting Village: It's About 'Risk' πŸ•΄

DHS, security experts worry about nation-state or other actors waging a disruptive or other attack on the 2020 election to sow distrust of the election process.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
⚠ Android users menaced by pre-installed malware ⚠

Google Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone has found a new and concerning route for malware to find its way on to Android devices - malicious apps that have been factory pre-installed.

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ•΄ Moving on Up: Ready to Climb to the Cloud? πŸ•΄

Among the complications: traditional security tools work poorly or not at all in the cloud, and if a company screws up, the whole Internet will know.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Moving on Up: Ready for Your Apps to Live in the Cloud? πŸ•΄

Among the complications: traditional security tools work poorly or not at all in the cloud, and if a company screws up, the whole Internet will know.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Edge Feature Section πŸ•΄

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” How to get rid of Google passwords on your Android device πŸ”

Android users can now verify their identity via fingerprint or screen lock, rather than a password, according to a Google Security Blog post.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ 2019 Pwnie Award Winners (And Those Who Wish They Weren't) πŸ•΄

This year's round-up includes awards into two new categories: most under-hyped research and epic achievement.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
⚠ Chrome Incognito mode detection fix busted by researchers ⚠

Remember that Chrome update that stopped websites from detecting Incognito mode? Well, researchers claim to have found a way around it.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Hacked devices can be turned into acoustic weapons ⚠

Security researcher Matt Wixey found that many gadgets aren't protected from being turned into hearing-damaging weapons. Or melting.

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ•΄ History Doesn't Repeat Itself in Cyberspace πŸ•΄

The 10th anniversary of the US Cyber Command is an opportunity to prepare for unknowns in the rapidly changing cybersecurity landscape.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ British Airways E-Ticketing Flaw Exposes Passenger Flight, Personal Data ❌

A vulnerability in British Airways' e-ticketing system could enable a bad actor to view passengers' personal data or change their booking information.

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via "Threatpost".