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2020-01-22 15:38:00 UTC
The Daily Swig
The Daily Swig
The UK’s Computer Misuse Act is ‘crying out for reform’

Cross-sector report demands changes to outdated cybercrime law

2020-01-22 15:01:00 UTC
ThreatPost
ThreatPost
Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web

The trove of information is potentially a scammer's bonanza.

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2020-01-22 15:00:00 UTC
Dark Reading
Dark Reading
Cybersecurity Lessons Learned from 'The Rise of Skywalker'

They're especially relevant regarding several issues we face now, including biometrics, secure data management, and human error with passwords.

2020-01-22 13:47:00 UTC
HackRead
HackRead
250 million Microsoft customer support records leaked in plain text

By Waqas

So Microsoft Customer Service and Support (CSS) records have been leaked online. Here's what's in the leaked data...

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2020-01-22 13:06:00 UTC
The Daily Swig
The Daily Swig
ProtonMail dismisses John McAfee’s ‘nonsensical argument’ over encryption

Antivirus pioneer posts two-minute rant explaining that ‘encryption is a worthless piece of shit technology’

2020-01-22 13:01:00 UTC
ThreatPost
ThreatPost
New Muhstik Botnet Attacks Target Tomato Routers

Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researchers observed a variant of the wormlike botnet that adds scanner technology to brute-force Web authentication.

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2020-01-22 11:39:00 UTC
Naked Security | Sophos
Naked Security | Sophos
Ubisoft sues DDoS-for-hire operators for ruining game play

The network of sites and services run by the alleged operators target the Rainbow Six Siege game, selling attacks to cheating players.

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2020-01-22 11:01:00 UTC
ThreatPost
ThreatPost
PoC Exploits Do More Good Than Harm: Threatpost Poll

More than half of security experts think that the good outweighs the bad when it comes to proof-of-concept exploits, according to a recent Threatpost poll.

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2020-01-22 10:56:00 UTC
Naked Security | Sophos
Naked Security | Sophos
NIST’s new privacy rules – what you need to know

How do you ensure you're compliant with privacy regulations? NIST has released a Privacy Framework to help you get your house in order.

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2020-01-22 10:44:00 UTC
Naked Security | Sophos
Naked Security | Sophos
Regus spills data of 900 staff on Trello board set to ‘public’

Another company has ended up accidentally spilling sensitive data from business collaboration tool Trello.

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