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πŸ” 10 mobility predictions for 2020: AI, 5G, foldable phones, and more πŸ”

Jack Wallen gazes into his crystal ball and makes his mobility predictions for 2020.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ What Should I Look for in a Data Protection Officer? πŸ•΄

The right candidate will possess the following skills.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ SQL Server 2019 Tool Tells Attackers Which Data Is Sensitive πŸ•΄

The design of SQL Data Discovery & Classification could let attackers pinpoint sensitive information while flying under organizations' radars.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” Report: Financial firms still losing customer data to malware and hackers πŸ”

Capital One mega breach in March 2019 was the third worst data loss ever.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ Mobile Devices Account for 41% of DDoS Attack Traffic πŸ•΄

DNS amplification attacks continue to dominate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, while mobile devices make up a larger share of traffic.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” How to protect your organization against the Snatch ransomware threat πŸ”

Discovered and analyzed by security provider Sophos, Snatch attempts to bypass traditional security software by rebooting your PC into Safe Mode.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ Ransomware 'Crisis' in US Schools: More Than 1,000 Hit So Far in 2019 πŸ•΄

Meanwhile, the mayor of the city of New Orleans says no ransom money demands were made as her city struggles to recover from a major ransomware attack launched last week.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Weak Crypto Practice Undermining IoT Device Security πŸ•΄

Keyfactor says it was able to break nearly 250,000 distinct RSA keys - many associated with routers, wireless access points, and other Internet-connected devices.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Financial Services Breaches Less Common, More Damaging, Than Those in Other Sectors πŸ•΄

While far less common than breaches in other industry sectors, financial services breaches were more than twice as expensive, per record exposed, than the average for tech businesses.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
⚠ Facebook employees’ payroll data nabbed in car smash-and-grab ⚠

Bye-bye, payroll data for 29,000 US Facebook employees that got left on an unencrypted drive in an employee's car.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Mozilla mandates 2FA security for Firefox developers ⚠

Mozilla last week fired off an important memo to all Firefox extension developers telling them to turn on authentication (2FA) on their addons.mozilla.org (AMO) accounts.

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ” Salary survey: Experienced security managers make more than $250,000 a year πŸ”

Security pros in banking and finance make the most money but bonuses were common across all roles and industries.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
⚠ Researchers discover weakness in IoT digital certificates ⚠

IoT devices are using weak digital certificates that could expose them to attack, according to a study released over the weekend.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Ransomware-seized New Orleans declares state of emergency ⚠

There are signs that the attackers used the particularly pernicious Ryuk strain of ransomware.

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ” Ellen DeGeneres, Lisa Kudrow, Facebook, and Google named worst password offenders of 2019 πŸ”

Big business aren't the only ones susceptible to password-related blunders, Dashlane found.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
❌ Alexa, Google Home Eavesdropping Hack Not Yet Fixed ❌

Researchers say that Amazon and Google need to focus on weeding out malicious skills from the getgo, rather than after they are already live.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ Disarming Disinformation πŸ•΄

Disinformation attacks are just as detrimental to businesses as they are to national elections. Here's what's at stake in 2020 and what infosec teams can do about them.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Data Security Startup Satori Cyber Launches with $5.25M Seed Round πŸ•΄

Satori Cyber aims to help businesses better protect and govern their information with its Secure Data Access Cloud.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Don't Make Security Training a 'One-and-Done' πŸ•΄

How to move beyond one-off campaigns and build a true security awareness program.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Siemens Contractor Sentenced for Writing 'Logic Bombs' πŸ•΄

David Tinley, 62, rigged software he wrote for the company starting in 2014 and into 2016, causing the programs to fail.

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via "Dark Reading: ".