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⚠ Monday review – the hot 24 stories of the week ⚠

From the fleeceware apps ripping off consumers to Microsoft's emergency IE patch - and everything in between. It's weekly roundup time.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Is the era of social media Likes over? ⚠

Instagram's testing a program to hide the Likes that have created a toxic cyberbullying environment. Now, Facebook is as well.

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ” Most Fortune 500 companies still opaque about security measures πŸ”

A Bitglass survey said 52% of the world's most profitable companies do not have any language on their websites about how they protect the data of customers.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
⚠ Social media manipulation as a political tool is spreading ⚠

Researchers say 'cyber troops' in 70 countries are using it to automate suppression, mount smear campaigns, or spread disinformation.

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ•΄ 8 Microsegmentation Pitfalls to Avoid πŸ•΄

Don't fall victim to these common mistakes on the path to developing better security boundaries and limiting the blast radius of security incidents.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ 'Harvesting Attacks' & the Quantum Revolution πŸ•΄

Stockpiles of stolen information sitting in foreign databases are ready to be exposed the minute there's a working quantum computer in five to ten years. The time to act is now.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Critical Exim Flaw Opens Servers to Remote Code Execution ❌

A fix has been issued for a critical Exim flaw that could lead to servers crashing or remote code execution attacks being launched.

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via "Threatpost".
⚠ Checkm8 jailbreak and AltStore put cracks in Apple’s walled garden ⚠

People are taking different tacks to get around Apple's tightly controlled phone rules.

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ•΄ 218M Words with Friends Players Compromised in Data Breach πŸ•΄

The same attacker was reportedly behind the Collection #1 and Collection #2 data dumps earlier this year.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Senate Passes Bill Aimed At Combating Ransomware Attacks ❌

New legislation has been approved by the U.S. senate aimed at protecting local cities and schools from ransomware attacks.

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via "Threatpost".
❌ New Bug Found in NSA’s Ghidra Tool ❌

Flaw in National Security Agency's Ghidra reverse-engineering tools allows hackers to execute code in vulnerable systems.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ” Battery Manufacturer Alleges Scientist Took Trade Secrets to China πŸ”

In a new lawsuit, a U.S. based battery company is alleging one of its former employees brazenly took its trade secrets and infringed its patents.

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via "Subscriber Blog RSS Feed ".
πŸ•΄ Baltimore Reportedly Had No Data Backup Process for Many Systems πŸ•΄

City lost key data in a ransomware attack earlier this year that's already cost more than $18.2 million in recovery and related expenses.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” How to avoid the dreaded Google Calendar malicious invite issue πŸ”

Watch out for suspicious Google Calendar invites and learn how to prevent them from making their way to your calendar.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ Microsoft Announces Ability to Force TLS Version Compliance πŸ•΄

Transport Layer Security (TLS) can be critical for security, but it must be deployed in a current version. Microsoft now provides a mechanism for administrators to guarantee the right version in their network.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
⚠ Darknet hosting provider busted in underground NATO bunker ⚠

Police overcame not only digital defenses of the "bulletproof" provider CyberBunker but also barbed wire fences and surveillance cams.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ China’s 500 megapixel camera is capable of mega-facial-recognition ⚠

The 'super camera' can identifying people dozens of meters away using facial recognition.

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via "Naked Security".
❌ Malvertising Attack Hijacks 1B+ Sessions With Webkit Exploit ❌

The eGobbler threat actor is back with a new malvertising campaign that has hijacked more than 1 billion sessions.

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via "Threatpost".
⚠ Hacking 2020 voting systems is a β€˜piece of cake’ ⚠

That's how Senator Wyden described the results of DefCon's Voting Village, where all of 100 voting systems were easily picked apart by hackers.

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via "Naked Security".