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🔐 More than half of login attempts on social media accounts are fraudulent 🔐

By 2021, cybercrime is projected to cost the global economy more than $6 million in damages, according to an Arkose Labs report.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🕴 Cryptography & the Hype Over Quantum Computing 🕴

It's not time to move to post-quantum cryptography yet -- too many things are still up in the air. But you can start to become prepared by making sure your infrastructure is agile.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 IRS Alerts Taxpayers to New Email Scam 🕴

A spoofed IRS.gov link leads victims to a fraudulent Web page where they are prompted to download malware.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🔐 Famous con man Frank Abagnale provides advice to hackers 🔐

Frank Abagnale, the inspiration behind the hit movie, Catch Me If You Can, talks with TechRepublic's Karen Roby about the dangers of social media posts.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🔐 Frank Abagnale, famous con man and inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio movie character, offers advice to hackers 🔐

Frank Abagnale, the inspiration behind the hit movie, Catch Me If You Can, talks with TechRepublic's Karen Roby about the dangers of social media posts.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
Hostinger Data Breach: 14M Customer Passwords, Personal Data at Risk

Hostinger said that unauthorized access to an internal API server exposed hashed passwords of 14 million customers.

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via "Threatpost".
🔐 VM escape flaw in QEMU allows for arbitrary code execution, denial of service 🔐

Reassembly of fragmented packets can potentially be exploited against cloud-hosted virtual machine services.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
ThreatList: Half of All Social Media Logins Are Fraud

Fraudsters are using social media to spam, steal information, spread propaganda and execute social-engineering campaigns.

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via "Threatpost".
IRS Impersonation Attacks Spread Malware Nationwide

The emails are well-crafted and extremely convincing.

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via "Threatpost".
🔏 Mastercard Alerts German, Belgian DPAs Following Breach 🔏

A breach at the popular payment card vendor last week mostly involved data of Germans belonging to a loyalty program.

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via "Subscriber Blog RSS Feed ".
Apple Fixes iOS Flaw That Opened iPhones to Jailbreaks

Apple has released an emergency patch in iOS 12.4.1 that addresses a vulnerability that opened iPhones to jailbreaks.

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via "Threatpost".
🕴 'Culture Eats Policy for Breakfast': Rethinking Security Awareness Training 🕴

What's definitely not working with end-user cybersecurity awareness training - and what you can do about it.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 This Week in Web Application Attacks and Enterprise Threats 🕴

The latest on the number of attacks, types of attacks, and threats to enterprises' most critical IT infrastructure.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 3 Arrested in Transnational Fraud Indictments 🕴

According to the indictments, the accused impersonated government officials when they demanded money from their victims.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 More Than Half of Social Media Login Attempts Are Fraud 🕴

Overall, account registrations for tech companies are four times more likely to be malicious than legitimate, a new report states.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 Apple Releases Emergency Patch for iPhone Jailbreak Flaw 🕴

iOS version 12.4.1 fixes the "use after free" vulnerability.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
Weekly review – the hot 21 stories of the week

From Chrome users ignoring password warnings to the jailbreaking iOS update, and everything in between. It's weekly roundup time.

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via "Naked Security".
Court squeezes $1 million back from convicted phisher

Prolific phishing scammer Grant West has been sentenced to 10 years, 8 months, and reimbursement for victims.

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via "Naked Security".
Hostinger upgrades password security after 14m accounts breached

Millions of customers of web hosting company Hostinger have received emails bearing the bad news of a data breach.

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via "Naked Security".
GitHub joins WebAuthn club

GitHub is the latest company to support WebAuthn, a new standard that makes logging into online services using a browser more secure.

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via "Naked Security".