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POPULAR CYBERSECURITY PUBLICATIONS
2019-10-22 18:30:00 UTC
Dark Reading
Dark Reading
The AI (R)evolution: Why Humans Will Always Have a Place in the SOC

In cybersecurity, the combination of men, women and machines can do what neither can do alone -- form a complementary team capable of upholding order and fighting the forces of evil.

2019-10-22 18:00:00 UTC
Dark Reading
Dark Reading
NordVPN Breached Via Data Center Provider's Error

The VPN company said that one of its 3,000 servers in a third-party data center was open to exploitation through a misconfigured management tool.

2019-10-22 17:13:00 UTC
ThreatPost
ThreatPost
No ‘Silver Bullet’ Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks

Karsten Nohl, who was behind this week's research that outlined new eavesdropping hacks for Alexa and Google Home, says that privacy for smart home assistants still has a ways to go.

Hacks IoT Newsmaker Interviews Podcasts Privacy Alexa Amazon Alexa Apple Apple Siri Google Home Smart Assistant Devices Smart Home Smart Home Hack
2019-10-22 16:00:00 UTC
The Daily Swig
The Daily Swig
VPN vendors contest impact of certificate breaches

NordVPN, TorGuard privacy squall will likely blow over users’ heads, says VPN market expert

2019-10-22 15:11:00 UTC
ThreatPost
ThreatPost
Magecart 5 Linked to Carbanak Gang

The Magecart splinter group known for supply-chain attacks appears to be tied to advanced threat actors.

Malware Web Security Advanced Threat Actors Carbanak Card Skimmers Dridex Magecart 5 Malwarebytes
2019-10-22 14:24:00 UTC
Naked Security | Sophos
Naked Security | Sophos
US nuclear weapons command finally ditches 8-inch floppies

The disks are part of the command centres that run the country’s nuclear missile deterrent on behalf of SACCS.

Government Security Floppy Disk IBM ICBM Nuclear Missile SACCS Strategic Automated Command And Control System US Military
2019-10-22 14:24:00 UTC
Naked Security | Sophos
Naked Security | Sophos
Storing your stuff securely in the cloud

How much of our stuff is going to the cloud? Probably a lot more than you realize. Let's look at the risks and how to mitigate them.

Data Loss Security Threats Backups Cloud Security Cloud Storage Data Access Data Security Rogue Insider
2019-10-22 13:58:00 UTC
The Daily Swig
The Daily Swig
Russian cybercrooks co-opted Iranian hacking tools to attack dozens of countries

False flags and masquerades

2019-10-22 13:40:00 UTC
Naked Security | Sophos
Naked Security | Sophos
Vatican launches smart rosary – complete with brute-force flaw

Now fixed, the Vatican's new fitness-and-prayer eRosary and its accompanying app, Click to Pray, were found to have a serious privacy bug.

Government Security Security Threats Vulnerability Brute Force Click To Pray ERosary Fidus Information Security Vatican Wearables Worldwide Prayer Network
2019-10-22 13:00:00 UTC
ThreatPost
ThreatPost
Three Service Account Secrets Straight from Hackers and Security Pros

A survey of nearly 300 Black Hat conference attendees this year showed strong agreement that service accounts are an attractive target.

Black Hat Critical Infrastructure Hacks Vulnerabilities Web Security Account Security Password Security Passwords Service Account Survey

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OUR TAKE ON TRENDING STORIES
June 2024
By SUE DENIM
Dark-Web Forum Collapse, Lockbit’s Misdirection, and Europol’s Botnet Crackdown.
In the ever-dramatic world of cybercrime, a small dark-web forum has found itself in a downward spiral, now up for sale. As covered in our weekly insight, the forum was breached by an unknown threat actor, prompting the admin to panic and shut it down. This came just days after the admin had taken to Telegram to badmouth the threat actor community and insult Shiny Hunters, the admin of Breach Foru...

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SPOTLIGHT, VULNERABILITY CHAT & PRIVACY HEADLINES
22 July 2024
BREACHAWARE HQ

A total of 9 breaches were found and analysed resulting in 2,948,750 leaked accounts containing a total of 14 different data types. The breaches found publicly and freely available included Avito, Lulu Hypermarket, The Cellula, Boutique Curly and NATO Wiki