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2019-10-23 14:38:00 UTC
The Daily Swig
The Daily Swig
Los Angeles Superior Court hacker handed 12-year prison sentence

Texas man sent millions of phishing emails and managed to steal hundreds of credit card numbers

2019-10-23 14:30:00 UTC
Dark Reading
Dark Reading
Report: 2020 Presidential Campaigns Still Vulnerable to Web Attacks

Nine out of 12 Democratic candidates have yet to enable DNSSEC, a simple set of extensions that stops most targeted domain-based attacks.

2019-10-23 14:05:00 UTC
ThreatPost
ThreatPost
Firefox, Chrome Bugs Allow Arbitrary Code-Execution

Multiple critical memory safety bugs in Firefox 69 and Firefox ESR 68.1 in particular affect medium and large government entities and enterprises.

Vulnerabilities Web Security Arbitrary Code Execution Critical Bug CVE-2019-11764 Esr Firefox Firefox 70 Firefox ESR 68.2 Mozilla Patches Update Vulnerabilities
2019-10-23 13:46:00 UTC
The Daily Swig
The Daily Swig
Healthcare CISO: ‘Throwing money at security doesn’t make a company secure’

Security specialist Tom August on how to protect the healthcare industry despite pressure from budget cuts

2019-10-23 12:43:00 UTC
Naked Security | Sophos
Naked Security | Sophos
Alexa and Google Home phishing apps demonstrated by researchers

The researchers' "Smart Spies" apps showed how Amazon Alexa and Google Home users could be exposed to vishing and eavesdropping.

Amazon Google Phishing Privacy Actions Alexa Amazon Echo Eavesdropping Google Home Karsten Nohl Passwords Security Research Labs Skills Smart Spies Spying Apps SRL Vishing
2019-10-23 12:41:00 UTC
Naked Security | Sophos
Naked Security | Sophos
Hacker breached servers used by NordVPN

NordVPN has been forced to admit that a hacker stole an expired TLS certificate key used to securely connect customers to its web servers.

Privacy Security Threats Vulnerability Data Breach Data Hack Data Leak Hacker NordVPN TorGuard Virtual Private Network Vpn
2019-10-23 12:02:00 UTC
Naked Security | Sophos
Naked Security | Sophos
Facebook pulls fake news networks linked to Russia and Iran

It took down four foreign interference campaigns and announced initiatives to prevent foreign interference in US elections.

Facebook Fake News Instagram Social Networks 2020 US Presidential Elections BLMNews Compromised Accounts Fake Accounts Graphika Internet Research Agency IRA Iraq Liberty Front Press Nathaniel Gleicher Political Ads Russia Russian Troll Army Russian Trolls
2019-10-23 12:00:00 UTC
ThreatPost
ThreatPost
15 Years Later, Metasploit Still Manages to be a Menace

A fresh look at the penetration testing tool Metasploit reveals the 15-year old hacking tool still has some tricks up its sleeves, even against modern defenses.

Hacks Malware Web Security APT41 Backdoors Metasploit Shikata Ga Nai Ta505 Turla UNC902
2019-10-23 11:46:00 UTC
The Daily Swig
The Daily Swig
Firefox 70: Browser revamp bundles password manager and multiple security fixes

Mozilla improves privacy by clamping down on social media cross-site tracking cookies

2019-10-23 10:32:00 UTC
Naked Security | Sophos
Naked Security | Sophos
Travel database exposed PII on US government employees

A property management company owned by hotel chain Best Western has exposed 179 GB of sensitive travel information on thousands of travelers.

Amazon Data Loss Privacy Security Threats AWS Best Western Best Western Hotel & Resorts Group Data Breach Data Loss Department Of Homeland Security Elasticsearch Pii

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