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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".
❌ Mozilla Releases Firefox 72: High-Severity Bugs Patched, Fingerpinting Nixed ❌

Mozilla tackles high-severity bugs in its latest Firefox 72 and Firefox ESR 68.4 releases at the same time rolls a major privacy feature .

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via "Threatpost".
❌ Liverpool Voyeur Used IM-RAT to Video Women at Home ❌

The case highlights the rising issue of stalkerware, which has reached epidemic proportions.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ In App Development, Does No-Code Mean No Security? πŸ•΄

No-code and low-code development platforms are part of application development, but there are keys to making sure that they don't leave security behind with traditional coding.

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πŸ•΄ TikTok Bugs Put Users' Videos, Personal Data At Risk πŸ•΄

Researchers found it was possible to spoof SMS messages from TikTok and exploit an API flaw that could grant access to users' personal data.

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via "Dark Reading: ".