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"Cyber-Criminals Target Zoom Users"The Bitdefender Antispam Antispam Lab has detected a new cyber-extortion campaign targeting those using the video-conferencing Zoom while undressed. A quarter of a million people have received an email claiming to have footage of them in compromising…
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"60% of Organizations Have Accelerated Their Zero Trust Projects"Researchers at Pulse Secure surveyed more than 250 technology professionals and found that the coronavirus pandemic did not impact the adoption of zero trust technology globally. They found that 60 percent of organizations accelerated zero trust…
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"U.S. Says Iranian Hackers Accessed Voter Information"According to an alert issued by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), an Iranian threat actor has accessed voter registration data. This alert follows another warning released by…
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Science of Security’s Annual Security Conference Goes Virtual and Gets Record Attendancehttps://www.nsa.gov/News-Features/Feature-Stories/Article-View/Article/2396500/science-of-securitys-annual-security-conference-goes-virtual-and-gets-record-at/fbclid/IwAR2jDU1hyqnM2qft1704FqNIoUBo15-l_tBveC451NCp3-7__zABQP2f-w8/ Photo of Adam Tagert…
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"CERT/CC Launches Twitter Bot to Give Security Bugs Random Names"The Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC) at the Carnegie Mellon University launched a Twitter bot named Vulnonym to assign random names to security bugs that receive a CVE identifier. The idea is to give neural names to security…
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"An Attacker Can Steal Sensitive User Data Over the Phone Using Smart Speakers"The use of Siri, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and other voice assistants continues to grow in popularity worldwide. These Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents have been adopted by many to help perform tasks in their everyday lives, such as searching…
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"Breaches Down 51%, Exposed Records Set New Record With 36 billion So Far"Researchers at Risk Based Security have found that there were 2,935 publicly reported breaches in the first three quarters of 2020, meaning breaches are down 51 percent from the year before. However, the number of records exposed since last year…
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"New Tool Simplifies Data Sharing, Preserves Privacy"A new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon and IBM introduces a new tool to help maintain the privacy of data shared among companies, organizations, and government. The team of researchers developed a new tool called DoppelGANger that synthesizes new…
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"Survey Uncovers High Level of Concern Over Firewalls"Ponemon Institute conducted a survey to which 603 US cybersecurity professionals responded. The survey asked them to share their thoughts on the effectiveness of firewalls in protecting against ransomware attacks and other security threats. More…
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"Half of All Virtual Appliances Have Outdated Software and Serious Vulnerabilities"A new study by Orca Security, a cloud security company, found cases of poor security flaw patching and software component updating for virtual appliances among many software vendors. Orca Security's scan of more than 2,200 virtual appliance images from…
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"Researchers at TU/e Find Huge and Sophisticated Black Market for Trade in Online 'Fingerprints'"Researchers at TU/e have discovered a sophisticated Russian-based online black marketplace in which hundreds of thousands of detailed user profiles are traded among cybercriminals. These profiles are personal fingerprints, which could be used to evade…
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"Wisconsin GOP Says Hackers Stole $2.3 Million From Trump Re-Election Effort"The Wisconsin Republican Party discovered that hackers had stolen $2.3 million from Trump re-election effort. The hackers manipulated invoices from four vendors. The invoices and other documents were altered, so when the party paid them, the…