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πŸ•΄ More Than Half of Social Media Login Attempts Are Fraud πŸ•΄

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: ".
πŸ•΄ Apple Releases Emergency Patch for iPhone Jailbreak Flaw πŸ•΄

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".
πŸ•΄ Consumers Urged to Secure Their Digital Lives πŸ•΄

Security options for consumers improve as Internet of Things devices invade homes and data on consumers proliferates online.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” Some employees willing to use company data to snag job at competitor πŸ”

A recent survey from security and fraud analytics provider Gurucul shows that some employees would take company info to get a better job with another company.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ Unsecured IoT: 8 Ways Hackers Exploit Firmware Vulnerabilities πŸ•΄

As new Internet of Things products enter the market, speed shouldn't trump concerns about security.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ 6 Ways Airlines and Hotels Can Keep Their Networks Secure πŸ•΄

As recent news can attest, travel and hospitality companies are prime targets for cybercriminals. Here are six privacy and security tips that can help lock down privacy and security.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
ATENTIONβ€Ό New - CVE-2014-10395

The cp-polls plugin before 1.0.1 for WordPress has XSS in the votes list.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
❌ Imperva Firewall Breach Exposes Customer API Keys, SSL Certificates ❌

The issue impacts users of the vendor's Cloud WAF product.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ WannaCry Remains No. 1 Ransomware Weapon πŸ•΄

Of all of the ransomware variants spotted targeting victims in the first half of 2019, the infamous WannaCry was by far the most prevalent, according to Trend Micro's detection data.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ How Do I Handle Security Alert Fatigue? πŸ•΄

Adding more security tools might add more security... or just more headaches (and risk).

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Malicious App on Google Play Tallies 100 Million Downloads ❌

Seemingly handy PDF and OCR app turns out to be a privacy horror show.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ” U.S. Wary of a Ransomware Attack Against 2020 Election πŸ”

A report Monday confirmed that the U.S. government is concerned about foreign hackers and especially ransomware when it comes to manipulating voter databases ahead of next year's election..

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via "Subscriber Blog RSS Feed ".
❌ Employers Beware: Microsoft Word β€˜Resume’ Phish Delivers Quasar RAT ❌

A round of phishing emails purports to be from job seekers - but actually uses a slew of detection evasion tactics to download malware on victim systems.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ New 'Lyceum' Threat Group Eyes Critical Infrastructure πŸ•΄

Researchers report Lyceum, otherwise known as Hexane, has targeted organizations in South Africa and the Middle East.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ CrowdStrike Launches Fund for Early-Stage Endpoint Security Startups πŸ•΄

It's goal is to accelerate delivery of third-party apps that add on and extend the company's Falcon cloud-hosted services.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Imperva Customer Database Exposed πŸ•΄

A subset of customers for the company's Incapsula web application firewall had their email addresses, hashed/salted passwords, and more open to unauthorized access, Imperva announced.

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via "Dark Reading: ".