🕴 New Technique Makes Passwords 14M Percent Harder to Crack, Nonprofit Claims 🕴
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Tide's method for protecting passwords splinters them up into tiny pieces and stores them on distributed nodes.📖 Read
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New Technique Makes Passwords 14M Percent Harder to Crack, Nonprofit Claims
Tide's method for protecting passwords splinters them up into tiny pieces and stores them on distributed nodes.
🔐 How to sign into your Microsoft Account website without a password 🔐
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Learn how to sign in to your Microsoft Account site using your fingerprint, face, or a physical security key via Chrome, Firefox, or Microsoft Edge.📖 Read
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❌ FunkyBot Malware Intercepts Android Texts, 2FA Codes ❌
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The spyware poses as a legitimate application, spreading via SMS messages to victims' contact lists.📖 Read
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FunkyBot Malware Intercepts Android Texts, 2FA Codes
The spyware poses as a legitimate application, spreading via SMS messages to victims' contact lists.
❌ Joker Spyware Found in 24 Google Play Apps ❌
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Google has kicked 24 apps off of its official Android app marketplace after spyware was discovered in them.📖 Read
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Joker Spyware Found in 24 Google Play Apps
Google has kicked 24 apps off of its official Android app marketplace after spyware was discovered in them.
🕴 Security Pros and 'Black Hats' Agree on Most Tempting Targets 🕴
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Malicious actors look for accounts that are springboards to other systems, according to nearly 300 attendees of Black Hat USA.📖 Read
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⚠ Twitter slaps back SMS texting after @Jack hijacking ⚠
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Two problems, Twitter says: vulnerabilities that mobile carriers need to fix & its reliance on linked numbers for 2FA.📖 Read
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Twitter turns off SMS texting after @Jack hijacking
Two problems, Twitter says: vulnerabilities that mobile carriers need to fix & its reliance on linked numbers for 2FA.
🕴 8 Ways To Spot an Insider Threat 🕴
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The good news is most insider threats derive from negligence, not malicious intent. The bad news is the frequency of negligence is already ahead of where it was in 2018.📖 Read
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8 Ways To Spot an Insider Threat
The good news is most insider threats derive from negligence, not malicious intent. The bad news is the frequency of negligence is already ahead of where it was in 2018.
❌ Facebook, Microsoft Challenge Industry to Detect, Prevent ‘Deepfakes’ ❌
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Deepfake Detection Challenge aims to spur creation of technology to combat AI used for creating altered videos that intentionally mislead viewers.📖 Read
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Facebook, Microsoft Challenge Industry to Detect, Prevent ‘Deepfakes’
Deepfake Detection Challenge aims to spur creation of technology to combat AI used for creating altered videos that intentionally mislead viewers.
⚠ Facebook expands use of face recognition ⚠
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Facebook's replaced "tag suggestions" with "face recognition" - a setting Facebook says may help to save us from identity thieves.📖 Read
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Facebook expands use of face recognition
Facebook’s replaced “tag suggestions” with “face recognition” – a setting Facebook says may help to save us from identity thieves.
⚠ YouTube fined $170m for covertly tracking kids online ⚠
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YouTube can't track kids online anymore without their parents' permission, says the FTC, as it fined the Google-subsidiary $170m.📖 Read
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YouTube fined $170m for covertly tracking kids online
YouTube can’t track kids online anymore without their parents’ permission, says the FTC, as it fined the Google-subsidiary $170m.
⚠ Database exposed 133 million US Facebook users’ phone numbers ⚠
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Facebook confirmed the breach, claiming that the total number of users in the database was 210 million.📖 Read
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Database exposed 133 million US Facebook users’ phone numbers
Facebook confirmed the breach, claiming that the total number of users in the database was 210 million.
🔐 How to manage your Windows computers and devices 🔐
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Learn how to add, remove, and otherwise manage your Windows 10 devices at your Microsoft Account site.📖 Read
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🕴 Why Businesses Fail to Address DNS Security Exposures 🕴
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Increasing awareness about the critical importance of DNS security is the first step in improving the risk of being attacked. It's time to get proactive.📖 Read
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Why Businesses Fail to Address DNS Security Exposures
Increasing awareness about the critical importance of DNS security is the first step in improving the risk of being attacked. It's time to get proactive.
🕴 Job-Seeker Data Exposed in Monster File Leak 🕴
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The job website says it cannot notify users since the exposure occurred on a third-party organization's servers.📖 Read
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Job-Seeker Data Exposed in Monster File Leak
The job website says it cannot notify users since the exposure occurred on a third-party organization's servers.
🔏 Friday Five: 9/6 Edition 🔏
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iPhone hacking levels up, military veterans targeted in an identity fraud scam, and more - catch up on the week's biggest stories with the Friday Five!📖 Read
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Friday Five: 9/6 Edition
iPhone hacking levels up, military veterans targeted in an identity fraud scam, and more - catch up on the week's biggest stories with the Friday Five!
❌ News Wrap: Deepfake CEO Voice Scam, Facebook Phone Data Exposed ❌
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From deepfake to data exposures, the Threatpost team talks about the top security trends driving this week's biggest news stories.📖 Read
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News Wrap: Deepfake CEO Voice Scam, Facebook Phone Data Exposed
From deepfake to data exposures, the Threatpost team talks about the top security trends driving this week's biggest news stories.
🕴 Mail System Vulnerability Delivers Root Privileges 🕴
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The vulnerability in Exim could allow an attacker to remotely execute code with root privileges.📖 Read
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Mail System Vulnerability Delivers Root Privileges
The vulnerability in Exim could allow an attacker to remotely execute code with root privileges.
❌ Back-to-School Scams Target Students with Library-Themed Emails ❌
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Students should keep their eyes peeled for phishing emails purporting to be from their colleges, as well as online student resources laced with malware, researchers warn.📖 Read
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Back-to-School Scams Target Students with Library-Themed Emails
Students should keep their eyes peeled for phishing emails purporting to be from their colleges, as well as online resources laced with malware, researchers warn.
❌ China’s APT3 Pilfers Cyberweapons from the NSA ❌
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Large portions of APT3's remote code-execution package were likely reverse-engineered from prior attack artifacts.📖 Read
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China’s APT3 Pilfers Cyberweapons from the NSA
Large portions of APT3's remote code-execution package were likely reverse-engineered from prior attack artifacts.
❌ ThreatList: Police Use of Facial Recognition is Just Fine, Say Most Americans ❌
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A survey by Pew Research Center finds that Americans support use of facial recognition by law enforcement , but not by tech or advertising companies.📖 Read
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ThreatList: Police Use of Facial Recognition is Just Fine, Say Most Americans
A survey by Pew Research Center finds that Americans support use of facial recognition by law enforcement , but not by tech or advertising companies.
ATENTION‼ New - CVE-2016-7398
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A type confusion vulnerability in the merge_param() function of php_http_params.c in PHP's pecl-http extension 3.1.0beta2 (PHP 7) and earlier as well as 2.6.0beta2 (PHP 5) and earlier allows attackers to crash PHP and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted HTTP requests.📖 Read
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