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Monday review – the hot 20 stories of the week

maandag 24 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

From Bella Thorne publishing her own nudes to the Yubikey recall - and everything in between. It's weekly roundup time.

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Microsoft uses AI to push Windows 10 upgrade to users

vrijdag 21 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

From November, users running some versions of Windows 10 will be required to upgrade or find themselves unable to receive security updates.

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Used Nest cams were letting previous owners spy on you

vrijdag 21 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Google says it's fixed the issue, but we haven't heard details on how many, and which, products were affected.

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Florida city will pay over $600,000 to ransomware attackers

vrijdag 21 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Riviera Beach, Florida, has agreed to pay attackers over $600,000 three weeks after its systems were crippled by ransomware.

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Government is exposing identities of child abuse victims

vrijdag 21 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

DHS and FBI investigators are using Facebook profile IDs in court records - IDs that are easily used to look up their profile pages.

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Update Firefox now! Zero-day found in the wild

donderdag 20 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Mozilla has fixed a critical zero-day bug in the latest point releases of the Firefox web browser.

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Google launches new Chrome protection from bad URLs

donderdag 20 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

The "Suspicious Site Reporter" extension lets users easily report dubious sites, while a new warning flags potential typosquatting pages.

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Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency is big news but will it be secure?

donderdag 20 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ll know that earlier this week Facebook announced plans for a new global cryptocurrency for absolutely everyone called Libra.

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“Deeply personal medical” records exposed online

donderdag 20 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

The Facebook ad agency xSocialMedia exposed 150K medical histories, along with identifying information for the people involved.

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Netflix researcher spots TCP SACK flaws in Linux and FreeBSD

woensdag 19 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Three vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD and Linux kernels could allow attackers to induce a denial-of-service by clogging networking I/O.

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Pass the salt! Popular CMSs aren’t securing passwords properly

woensdag 19 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

A group of researchers has discovered that many of the web's most popular content management systems are using obsolete algorithms to protect their users' passwords.

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Hospitals are being suffocated by robocalls

woensdag 19 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Some pretend to be hospitals to get patients' payment data. Others pose as the goverment and try to get confidential data from hospitals.

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Millions of Venmo transactions scraped (again)

woensdag 19 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Not much has changed since a year ago, when a bot was tweeting out publicly visible Venmo "drug" deals from the public-by-default company.

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90% off Ray-Bans? It’s a 100% Instagram SCAM!

dinsdag 18 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

The ads look like they're been shared by friends, but they're really pod people who've hijacked accounts.

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Bella Thorne steals hacker’s thunder, publishes nude photos herself

dinsdag 18 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Sheesh! At this rate, extortionists are going to have to seek alternate employment.

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The US is reportedly seeding Russia’s power grid with malware

dinsdag 18 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

The US is alleged to have been quietly planting malware throughout Russia's energy networks in response to years of Russian attacks on its own power grid.

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Phishing attack lures victims with encrypted message alert

dinsdag 18 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Why are phishing emails so enduringly popular with the bad guys? A new approach may suggest that curiosity is at play.

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Yubico recalls FIPS Yubikey tokens after flaw found

maandag 17 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Security token maker Yubico has issued an important advisory affecting high-end versions of its YubiKey authentication key.

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Privacy foul for soccer league app that eavesdropped on users

maandag 17 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

The LaLiga app used phones' GPS and microphones to sniff out bars that were broadcasting soccer matches illegally.

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I’d like to add you to my professional network of people to spy on

maandag 17 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

A deepfake was reportedly spotted in the wild: LinkedIn's well-connected, young, attractive Eurasia/Russia expert "Katie Jones."

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Widely used medical infusion pump can be remotely hijacked

maandag 17 juni 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

These vulnerable infusion pumps can be remotely hacked to alter the delivery of IV fluids and medications such as painkillers or insulin.

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