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πŸ•΄ Is Voting by Mobile App a Better Security Option or Just 'A Bad Idea'? πŸ•΄

Security experts say voting by app adds another level of risk, as mobile-voting pilots expand for overseas military and voters with disabilities.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Pwn2Own Adds Industrial Control Systems to Hacking Contest πŸ•΄

The Zero Day Initiative will bring its first ICS Pwn2Own competition to the S4x20 conference in January.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ›  Stegano 0.9.7 πŸ› 

Stegano is a basic Python Steganography module. Stegano implements two methods of hiding: using the red portion of a pixel to hide ASCII messages, and using the Least Significant Bit (LSB) technique. It is possible to use a more advanced LSB method based on integers sets. The sets (Sieve of Eratosthenes, Fermat, Carmichael numbers, etc.) are used to select the pixels used to hide the information.

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via "Security Tool Files β‰ˆ Packet Storm".
πŸ” Top 5 things to know about alternative data πŸ”

Alternative data allows businesses to discover trends and financial opportunities without compromising consumer privacy. Tom Merritt explains the five things you need to know about alternative data.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ” Top 5 things to know about alternative data πŸ”

Alternative data allows businesses to discover trends and financial opportunities without compromising consumer privacy. Tom Merritt explains the five things you need to know about alternative data.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ Fortinet Bolsters Endpoint Security with enSilo Acquisition πŸ•΄

As companies reduce their vendor count, consolidation will likely continue to accelerate in the next year.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
⚠ New Facebook AI fools facial recognition ⚠

The technology - which Facebook won't use in its own apps - subtly distorts face images so they're still recognizable, but not to machines.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ PHP team fixes nasty site-owning remote execution bug ⚠

The PHP development team has fixed a bug that could allow remote code execution in some setups of the programming language.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Gradient β€œcelebrity matching” photo app sparks privacy fears ⚠

The Kardashians love the Gradient app - but they're being paid to use it, whereas for you it's the other way round. Is it safe?

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via "Naked Security".
❌ ThreatList: Most Retail Hardware Bug Bounty Flaws Are Critical ❌

Overall, across all retail programs, more than 18 percent of all bug bounty submissions are critical in severity, a new Bugcrowd report found.

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via "Threatpost".
❌ Country of Georgia Suffers Widespread Cyberattack ❌

The attack on local web-hosting provider Pro-Service - likely politically motivated - took out 2,000 websites and the national television station.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ What Do You Do When You Can't Patch Your IoT Endpoints? πŸ•΄

The answer, in a word, is segmentation. But the inconvenient truth is that segmentation is hard.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Why It's Imperative to Bridge the IT & OT Cultural Divide πŸ•΄

As industrial enterprises face the disruptive forces of an increasingly connected world, these two cultures must learn to coexist.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
ATENTIONβ€Ό New - CVE-2015-9506 (amazon_s3, easy_digital_downloads)

The Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) Amazon S3 extension for WordPress, as used with EDD 1.8.x before 1.8.7, 1.9.x before 1.9.10, 2.0.x before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.11, 2.2.x before 2.2.9, and 2.3.x before 2.3.7, has XSS because add_query_arg is misused.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
❌ Fancy Bear Targets Sporting, Anti-Doping Orgs As 2020 Olympics Loom ❌

The APT is once again targeting the sports world, Microsoft warns.

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via "Threatpost".
❌ New Adwind Variant Targets Windows, Chromium Credentials ❌

A new version of the typically platform-agnostic Adwind trojan has been spotted targeting Windows applications and systems and Chromium-based browsers.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ Cybersecurity Trumps Political, Reputational Concerns for Companies πŸ•΄

The average company has seen its risk increase, with cybersecurity topping the list of business threats, followed by damage to reputation and financial risks, a report finds.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Joker’s Stash Drops Largest-Ever Credit Card Cache on Dark Web ❌

1.3 million stolen cards, mostly from India, could fetch $130 million for the cybercrooks.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ” Research finds 2019 increase in breaches and cybersecurity spending πŸ”

The ServiceNow and Ponemon study found an average 24% increase in cybersecurity spending and a 17% rise in attacks.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ Who Made the List Of 2019's Nastiest Malware? πŸ•΄

This year's compilation features well-known ransomware, botnet, and cryptomining software.

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via "Dark Reading: ".