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🔐 Robocalls annually scam one in 10 Americans, to a loss of $9.5 billion 🔐

Computerized auto dialers deliver pre-recorded phone calls with 60 billion expected in 2019 alone. Here's how to handle robocalls.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🕴 7 Considerations Before Adopting Security Standards 🕴

Here's what to think through as you prepare your organization for standards compliance.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
Google October Android Security Update Fixes Critical RCE Flaws

Google's October security update fixed several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities.

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via "Threatpost".
🔐 How to build a better cybersecurity defense with deception technologies 🔐

This new cybersecurity defense mechanism proactively protects organizations and prevents attacks.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🔐 How MIT researchers use machine learning to detect IP hijackings before it occurs 🔐

The goal is to predict incidents in advance by tracing it back to the actual hijackers.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🔐 More companies use multi-factor authentication, but security still weak from poor password habits 🔐

Users still have to juggle far too many passwords, which leads to password sharing, reuse, and other bad habits, according to a new report from password manager LastPass.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🕴 Business Email Compromise Attacks Spike 269% 🕴

A new Mimecast report finds a significant uptick in BEC attacks, malware attachments, and spam landing in target inboxes.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🔐 Only 1 in 5 enterprises have DMARC records set up with an enforcement policy 🔐

More companies than ever are adopting new email security methods, like DMARC, but few actually put them to full use.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
Sextortionists Get Past Defenses with Cryptocurrency Shift

A new campaign is evading secure email gateways that rely on identifying word patterns in order to filter out spam.

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via "Threatpost".
🔏 Breach at New Zealand Medical Center Could Impact One Million Patients 🔏

A cyber attack on the company's website in August prompted an investigation that uncovered additional attacks dating back to 2016.

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via "Subscriber Blog RSS Feed ".
🕴 Most US Presidential Campaign Websites Offer Little Privacy Protection 🕴

New audit finds that privacy policies on 70% of the sites have no limits on data sharing.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
Apple Tackles Over a Dozen Bugs in its Catalina 10.15 Update

Apple released fixes for Catalina and patches for iCloud and iTunes for Windows software.

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via "Threatpost".
🔐 UT Austin launches first ever healthcare cybersecurity leadership program in the US 🔐

With the shortage of cybersecurity professionals in the US, UT's program aims to develop individuals who can mitigate security risks in healthcare.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
Critical Microsoft Remote Desktop Flaw Fixed in Security Update

Microsoft has released fixes for nine critical and 49 important vulnerabilities as part of Patch Tuesday.

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via "Threatpost".
🕴 Can the Girl Scouts Save the Moon from Cyberattack? 🕴

The Girl Scouts Cyber Challenge event, later this month, pledges to give middle and high-school girls a realistic, and fun, look at cybersecurity careers.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🛠 Faraday 3.9.2 🛠

Faraday is a tool that introduces a new concept called IPE, or Integrated Penetration-Test Environment. It is a multiuser penetration test IDE designed for distribution, indexation and analysis of the generated data during the process of a security audit. The main purpose of Faraday is to re-use the available tools in the community to take advantage of them in a multiuser way.

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via "Security Tool Files ≈ Packet Storm".
Intimate Details on Healthcare Workers Exposed as Cloud Security Lags

Ponemon survey data shows that only a third of IT staff say they take a security-first approach to data storage in the cloud.

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via "Threatpost".
🕴 NSA Issues Advisory on VPN Vulnerability Trio 🕴

Vulnerabilities with Pulse Secure, Fortinet, and Palo Alto Networks VPNs are called out in the advisory.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 Utilities' Operational Networks Continue to Be Vulnerable 🕴

More than half of utilities have suffered an outage or data loss in the last 12 months, but only a minority of organizations seem ready for an attack that could affect operations, a survey finds.

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🕴 Microsoft Issues 9 Critical Security Patches 🕴

None of the total 59 patches were for previously known vulnerabilities nor are any under active attack, Microsoft reports.

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via "Dark Reading: ".