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⚠ Will the new iPhone 11 track you even if you tell it not to? ⚠

Does turning location access off for all your apps mean that location access is off altogether?

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ•΄ 10 Notable Cybersecurity Acquisitions of 2019, Part 2 πŸ•΄

As mergers and acquisitions continued to shape the security industry throughout 2019, these deals were most significant.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Elder Scrolls Online Targeted by Cybercrooks Hunting In-Game Loot ❌

A phishing attack is masquerading as messages from the game's developers.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ Two Bayrob Cybercrime Members Sentenced to 20 and 18 Years in Prison πŸ•΄

The Romanian nationals stole some $4 million in a vast malware, botnet, and cryptocurrency operation.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” NYDFS Cybersecurity TPSP Certification of Compliance Deadline Looms πŸ”

The New York Department of Financial Services' Cybersecurity Regulation was implemented years ago but one of the regulation's compliance deadlines remains.

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via "Subscriber Blog RSS Feed ".
πŸ” Intel expert divulges security trends πŸ”

Intel's Amit Elazari Bar On discussed IoT security, ethical hackers, bug bounties, and more.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ Maersk CISO Says NotPeyta Devastated Several Unnamed US firms πŸ•΄

At least two companies may have been dealt even more damage than the shipping giant, which lost nearly its entire global IT infrastructure.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Romanian Duo Receives Jailtime For Infecting 400,000 With Malware ❌

Since 2007, the two allegedly operated a cybercrime ring called "Bayrob Group."

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via "Threatpost".
⚠ Serious Security: Understanding how computers count ⚠

The hard disks that fail abruptly at 32,768 hours of use - why simply 'adding 1' can send you into oblivion.

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via "Naked Security".
❌ Birth Certificate Data Laid Bare on the Web in Multiple States ❌

A platform that allows online applications for copies of birth certificates did not store its data properly.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ Microsoft 'Campaign Views' Offers Full Look at Office 365 Attacks πŸ•΄

Campaign views, arriving in public preview, aims to share more context around how attackers targeted an organization and whether its defenses worked.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Scientists Break Largest Encryption Key Yet with Brute Force πŸ•΄

The key, only one-third the length of most commercial encryption keys, took more than 35 million compute hours to break.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
⚠ TikTok settles class action over child privacy one day after it’s filed ⚠

The $1.1m settlement is an β€œexcellent result,” TikTok said, unsurprisingly: compared with its $5.7m FTC fine, it's dirt cheap.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Facebook users were duped by Cambridge Analytica, FTC rules ⚠

Delete the data, and don't do any of that again, the FTC told the data analytics company, which already filed for bankruptcy in 2018.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ EU releases its 5G conclusions ⚠

The Chinese company is at the heart of a security spat with the US that has also been causing some consternation in the UK.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Snatch ransomware pwns security using sneaky β€˜safe mode’ reboot ⚠

The Sophos Managed Threat Response (MTR) team has warned the industry of a dangerous new ransomware trick.

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via "Naked Security".
❌ DHS Rolls Back Facial-Recognition Expansion Plan ❌

Biometric facial scanning won’t be a requirement for all U.S. citizens traveling internationally after all, the department decided.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ” Network attacks increased in third quarter, WatchGuard says πŸ”

One network attack targeted the same vulnerability exploited in the Equifax data breach from September 2017, according to a new report.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ Deliver a Deadly Counterpunch to Ransomware Attacks: 4 Steps πŸ•΄

You can't prevent all ransomware attacks. However, it's possible to ensure that if a breach happens, it doesn't spread, affect business, and become a newsworthy event.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” Want to attain and retain customers? Adopt data privacy policies πŸ”

Customers won't buy services or products from companies if they don't trust how their data will be used, Cisco found.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
ATENTIONβ€Ό New - CVE-2013-2095

rubygem-openshift-origin-controller: API can be used to create applications via cartridge_cache.rb URI.prase() to perform command injection

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via "National Vulnerability Database".