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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: ".
πŸ•΄ The Right to Be Patched: How Sentient Robots Will Change InfoSec Management πŸ•΄

It won't be long before we consider embodied AI as a form of "life" - and that will have a variety of paradigm-shifting, somewhat irritating, and potentially hilarious impacts on the daily lives of cybersecurity and privacy professionals.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
⚠ Report: 53% of social media logins are fraud ⚠

Most attacks are from botnets. The goals: spreading spam, stealing data, spreading propaganda, and social-engineering consumers for profit.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Android 10 coming soon, with important privacy upgrades ⚠

It's semi-official: Android 10 (nΓ©e Q), the next version of the Android operating system, could start shipping 3 September.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ US charges 80 in world-spanning romance scam and email fraud ring ⚠

The $6m scam targeted women worldwide and victimized more than a dozen companies.

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ•΄ Never Forget Your Passwords Again! πŸ•΄

You never know what those late-night infomercials are going to turn up.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Magecart Hits 80 Major eCommerce Sites in Card-Skimming Bonanza ❌

Mainly motorsports and luxury apparel sites, all of them were running outdated versions of the Magento eCommerce platform.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ” A ransomware revival leads to 2.2 billion stolen credentials on the dark web in Q1 πŸ”

In a new report, McAfee Labs said cybercriminals were focusing in on attacking weak IoT devices and extracting huge troves of data from large companies.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ” Tackling cyberthreats in the sports industry πŸ”

The franchises behind sporting events are frequently open to significant cybersecurity threats. TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with a security expert about the unique challenges facing athletic organizations.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ” Tackling cyberthreats in the sports industry πŸ”

The franchises behind sporting events are frequently open to cybersecurity threats. TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with a security expert about the unique challenges facing athletic organizations.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
❌ Dangerous Cryptomining Worm Racks Up 850K Infections, Self-Destructs ❌

Law enforcement takedown causes Retadup malware to eat itself.

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via "Threatpost".
ATENTIONβ€Ό New - CVE-2012-6719

The sharebar plugin before 1.2.2 for WordPress has SQL injection.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
ATENTIONβ€Ό New - CVE-2012-6718

The sharebar plugin before 1.2.2 for WordPress has XSS, a different issue than CVE-2013-3491.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
ATENTIONβ€Ό New - CVE-2012-6717

The redirection plugin before 2.2.12 for WordPress has XSS, a different issue than CVE-2011-4562.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
ATENTIONβ€Ό New - CVE-2011-5329

The redirection plugin before 2.2.9 for WordPress has XSS in the admin menu, a different issue than CVE-2011-4562.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".