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‘Dirty little secret’ extortion email threatens to give your family coronavirus

donderdag 19 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

...And it's got your password as "proof".

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NIST shared dataset of tattoos that’s been used to identify prisoners

donderdag 19 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

The EFF got in touch with the institutions that have the dataset. Some deleted it, while one refused and others didn't bother to respond.

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Cryptojacking is almost conquered – crushed along with coinhive.com

donderdag 19 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Cryptojacking may not be entirely gone following the shutdown of notorious cryptomining service Coinhive - but it's drastically diminished.

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Delayed Adobe patches fix long list of critical flaws

donderdag 19 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

This week the company made amends, issuing fixes for an unusually high CVE-level 41 vulnerabilities, 21 of which are rated critical.

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Facebook accidentally blocks genuine COVID-19 news

donderdag 19 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Facebook is denying that a recent content moderation glitch has anything to do with workforce issues, but blames automatic systems.

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Android malware uses coronavirus for sextortion and ransomware combo

woensdag 18 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

The app says it will notify you of coronavirus cases... but in fact it locks up your phone and sextorts you for money at the same time

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VMware patches virtualisation bugs

woensdag 18 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Virtualisation company VMware patched two bugs this week that affected a large proportion of its client-side virtual machines.

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Uber to file federal suit against LA over users’ real-time location data

woensdag 18 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Real-time, in-trip geolocation data isn't good for traffic/bike lane planning, a draft of the suit says. What it's good for is surveillance.

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DDoS attack on US Health agency part of coordinated campaign

woensdag 18 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

It coincided with a disinformation campaign carried out via SMS, email and social media claiming that national quarantine was imminent.

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Human traffickers use social media oversharing to gain victims’ trust

woensdag 18 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Posts about money or family trouble are being used to gain trust by those who force victims into sex work or slavery, the FBI warns.

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Slack fixes account-stealing bug

dinsdag 17 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Slack has fixed a bug that allowed attackers to hijack user accounts by tampering with their HTTP sessions.

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Tor browser fixes bug that allows JavaScript to run when disabled

dinsdag 17 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

The Tor browser has a bug that could allow JavaScript to execute on websites even when users think they’ve disabled it for maximum anonymity.

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WordPress to get automatic updates for plugins and themes

dinsdag 17 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Good news for website admins: the ability to automatically update plugins and themes is being beta-tested for WordPress 5.5, due in August.

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Europol busts up two SIM-swapping hacking rings

dinsdag 17 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

What a nightmare: your phone goes dead, and you can't log into your bank account because it's controlled by a hacker who's draining you dry.

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Microsoft patches wormable Windows 10 ‘SMBGhost’ flaw

maandag 16 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

What’s the difference between a scheduled security update and one that’s out-of-band? In this case, it's two days.

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Report calls for web pre-screening to end UK’s child abuse ‘explosion’

maandag 16 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

The IICSA report cited "unprecedented levels of depravity" and said that encryption is getting in the way of current screening.

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Open source bugs have soared in the past year

maandag 16 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Open source bugs have skyrocketed, according to a report from WhiteSource, with XSS flaws account for a quarter of those bugs.

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Senate bill would ban TikTok from government phones

maandag 16 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Concerns over cybersecurity risk and possible spying by China have already brought about bans from DHS, DoD, TSA, and the State Department.

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Monday review – the hot 23 stories of the week

maandag 16 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Amazon and eBay shopper data was exposed, and the EARN IT act threatens end-to-end encryption. These stories and more in the weekly roundup.

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EARN IT Act threatens end-to-end encryption

vrijdag 13 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

The bill, which would undercut Section 230 protections for online publishing, presents itself as a way to stop online child abuse.

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Homeland Security sued over secretive use of face recognition

vrijdag 13 maart 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

As of June 2019, CBP had processed more than 20 million travelers using facial recognition, civil rights group ACLU says.

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