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❌ FBI Taps Apple to Unlock Pensacola Shooter’s iPhone ❌

It's unclear yet whether the Cupertino giant will assist, given past history of court battles over such incidents.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ Accenture to Buy Symantec's Cyber Security Services πŸ•΄

The purchase, for an undisclosed amount, is scheduled to close in March.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Car Hacking Hits the Streets πŸ•΄

The top-three carmakers sell only connected vehicles in the United States - and other manufacturers are catching up - creating a massive opportunity for attacks, which black-hat hackers are not overlooking.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Sodinokibi Ransomware Behind Travelex Fiasco: Report ❌

Researchers suspect the cybercriminals attacked using an unpatched critical vulnerability in the company's seven Pulse Secure VPN servers.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ” Cancer Center Execs Resign Following Biomedical IP Theft Concerns πŸ”

It's the latest in a series of stories involving investigations of suspected intellectual property theft at medical schools and research laboratories.

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via "Subscriber Blog RSS Feed ".
πŸ” How to set up facial recognition to sign into Windows 10 πŸ”

You can sign into Windows 10 via your face, as long as your computer has a supported camera.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ The Discovery and Implications of 'MDB Leaker' πŸ•΄

The "MDB Leaker" vulnerability in the Microsoft Access Database could lead to a memory leak if left unpatched.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ•΄ Cloudflare Adds New Endpoint, Web Security Service πŸ•΄

"Teams" and a new browser security acquisition expand the cloud firm's security offerings.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Google Fixes Critical Android RCE Flaw ❌

Google's first security update of 2020 addressed seven high and critical severity Android flaws.

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via "Threatpost".
⚠ Facebook bans deepfakes, but not cheapfakes or shallowfakes ⚠

Quick-n-sleazy edits are still OK, such as the 75% slowdown that made Nancy Pelosi slur or the edit that turned Joe Biden into a racist.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ US warns of Iranian cyber threat ⚠

The DHS has issued three warnings in the last few days encouraging people to be on alert for physical and cyber attacks from Iran.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ YouTube to treat all kid-aimed videos like they’re COPPA-liable ⚠

The FTC can fine content creators up to $42,530 per violation - even though they don't collect, receive, nor have access to kids' data.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ REvil ransomware exploiting VPN flaws made public last April ⚠

Researchers report flaws, vendors issue patches, organisations apply them - and everyone lives happily ever after. Right? Wrong!

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via "Naked Security".
❌ Get Ready for the Microsoft Windows 7 EOL on January 14th ❌

January 14, 2020, is a day cybersecurity stakeholders should pay attention to, as it marks the end of Microsoft support in Windows 7. From a security perspective, both the routine monthly security patches as well as hot fixes for attacks in the wild will not be available, effectively making any newly discovered vulnerability a Windows 7 zero-day.

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via "Threatpost".
❌ TikTok Riddled With Security Flaws ❌

The video sharing app has fixed several flaws allowing partial account takeover and information exposure.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ” Apple exec explains privacy protections, while Facebook leader looks for loopholes πŸ”

At CES 2020, Facebook privacy officer says new California law doesn't apply because the company doesn't sell data, only ads.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ The "Art of Cloud War" for Business-Critical Data πŸ•΄

How business executives' best intentions may be negatively affecting security and risk mitigation strategies - and exposing weaknesses in organizational defenses.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
ATENTIONβ€Ό New - CVE-2013-3936 (opsview, opsview_core)

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Opsview before 4.4.1 and Opsview Core before 20130522 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".