IT Security News Weekly Summary – Week 06

• IT Security News Daily Summary 2020-02-09

• Kuo Warns of Delays and Low Labor Return Rates at Apple Supplier Factories in China Due to Coronavirus

• Everything You Need to Know About the Apple Pencil

• Emergency call service in Australia to use AI to detect signs of heart attack

• DEF CON 27, Recon Village – Bug Crowd’s ‘Lets Get Technical And Hunt Harder’

• Robert M. Lee’s & Jeff Haas’ Little Bobby Comics – ‘WEEK 263’

• DEF CON 27, Recon Village – Jaime Sanchez’ ‘Derevolutionizing OS Fingerprinting: Cat And Mouse Game’

• DC1000B Marks Kingston’s Entrance into NVMe Data Center Drives

• What is Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM)?

• Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity

• Hackers Deface Facebook’s Official Twitter And Instagram Accounts

• Journey to security: Data safety for travelers

• Singapore Accounts For Half Of Netflix Government Takedown Demands

• Facebook official Twitter and Instagram accounts hacked!

• Europe Needs a China Strategy; Brussels Needs to Shape It

• What Will We Learn From The Iowa Caucus App?

• Week in review: Most exploited vulns in 2019, Emotet sprads via Wi-Fi, Patch Tuesday forecast

• The number of cyber attacks on Saudi Aramco is increasing

• How to Share Files Securely Online: Dropbox, Firefox Send, and More

• Maastricht University finally paid a 30 bitcoin ransom to crooks

• Security Affairs newsletter Round 250

• Singapore accounts for half of Netflix government takedown demands

• HomePod Turns Two, Lower-Priced Model Might Launch Later This Year

• Windows 10 Start Menu Suggests Firefox Users Switch to Edge

• There is No Easy Fix to AI Privacy Problems

• 5 Critical Zero-day Vulnerabilities Affected Tens of Millions of Cisco Switches, Routers, IP Phones and Cameras

• How Smart Cards Work

• FBI is investigating more than 1,000 cases of Chinese theft of US technology

• New Top 10 Best Antivirus for Android in 2020 -100 % Mobile Protection

• IT Security News Daily Summary 2020-02-08

• XKCD ‘Tax AI’

• Microsoft’s Surface Duo Spotted in the Wild, Video Leaked

• Microsoft’s Surface Duo Spotted in the Wild

• DEF CON 27, Recon Village – Anthony Rose’s ‘Hack To Basics: Adapting Exploit Frameworks To Evade Microsoft ATP’

• Upcoming Low-Cost iPhone Again Rumored to Be Priced at $399

• Foxconn’s Plans to Restart Apple Device Production on Monday Were Called Off By Chinese Health Authorities

• DEF CON 27, Recon Village – Richard Gold’s ‘Asset Discovery Making Sense Of The Ocean Of OSINT’

• Lock My PC Used By Tech Support Scammers, Dev Offers Free Recovery

• Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale

• Report: Facebook Still Allowing Anti-Vaccine Content Despite Ban

• Cyborgs, Trolls and Bots: A Guide to Online Misinformation

• NO FATE

• IoT devices at major Manufacturers infected with crypto-miner

• After Action Review, (Sat, Feb 8th)

• Apple Deliberately Restricts Old Versioned iPhones’ Performance; Gets Fined!

• 
Sandbox Detection Tricks & Nice Obfuscation in a Single VBScript , (Fri, Feb 7th)

• China Alleges India for Cyber-attacks Amid the Coronavirus Outbreak. Demands International Cooperation.

• Top Stories: iOS 13.4 Beta, iPhone ‘CarKey’ Leak, New Apple TV?

• Pro-Trump Trolls Flooded the Iowa Caucus Phone Lines

• Facebook’s official Twitter and Instagram accounts hacked by OurMine

• How to Get Your Yahoo Breach Settlement Money

• How AI Is Tracking the Coronavirus Outbreak

• Comment: Ransomware Attacks Are Now Targeting Industrial Control Systems

• Group-IB detects Half a Million Indian Banks’ Cards on Joker’s Stash Cardshop

• New CPU Releases By Intel & AMD in 2020

• How to protect your privacy on an iOS device

• The Week in Ransomware – February 7th 2020 – Exploiting Drivers

• Facebook’s Twitter and Instagram Accounts Hacked

• A new twist on “Parental consent”

• Hackers deface Facebook’s official Twitter and Instagram accounts

• The Coronavirus Shows Why the U.S. Must Make Pandemic Disease a National Security Priority

• RobbinHood ransomware exploit GIGABYTE driver flaw to kill security software

• 2020-02-07 – Quick post: Emotet epoch 2 infection with Trickbot gtag mor93

• EFF Report: Amazon’s RING App Distributing PII To 3rd Parties

• Windows 7 Users Suddenly Can’t Shut Down Their PCs, How to Fix

• Dark web hackers selling payment card data of half a million Indians

• Windows 7 Error Prevents Computer Shutdown, How to Fix

• IT Security News Daily Summary 2020-02-07

• Wacom Tablet Data Exfiltration Raises Security Concerns

• DEF CON 27, Recon Village – Mitchell Parker’s ‘Building OSINT And Recon Program To Address Healthcare’

• Friday Squid Blogging: An MRI Scan of a Squid’s Brain

• Is technology killing globalization?

• Why Monitoring Third-Party SSL Certificates Matters

• TA505 Hackers Behind Maastricht University Ransomware Attack

• Protect Yourself From Threats and Fraud With XTN

• Twitter Outage Prevents Users From Sending New Tweets

• Can CISA deliver nationwide election security?

• R&D rules need upgrade, experts say

• Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Update to Fix Wallpaper Bug

• HHS taps into nationwide drug-testing data

• Nuspire Report: Cyberattackers Took a Holiday in Preparation for 2020

• A two-pronged strategy for IoT security awareness

• FDA wants to upgrade ethics filing platform

• AI could constantly scan the internet for data privacy violations, a quicker, easier way to enforce compliance

• Google Takeout Serves Up Video Files to Strangers

• 5 Cybersecurity Scandals That Could’ve Been Easily Prevented

• Critical Android Bluetooth Bug Enables RCE, No User Interaction Needed

• Google Chrome to block file downloads – from .exe to .txt – over HTTP by default this year. And we’re OK with this

• Misconfigured Docker Registries Expose Orgs to Critical Risks

• CCPA and GDPR: The Data Center Pitfalls of the ‘Right to be Forgotten’

• Google Maps: online interventions with offline ramifications

• Identity Verification And Fraud Prevention In 2020: Closing The Trust Gap

• Apple deprecating macOS kernel extensions (KEXTs) is a great win for security

• Threat Roundup for January 31 to February 7

• What is Cloud Networking?

• Five Examples of IIoT/IoT Security Threats

• STOMP 2 DIS: Brilliance in the (Visual) Basics

• Facebook “Demands” Controversial Company Stop Gathering Facial Recognition Data

• RobbinHood Kills Security Processes Before Dropping Ransomware

• Hackers imitating CDC, WHO with coronavirus phishing emails

• Emotet Hacks Nearby Wi-Fi Networks to Spread to New Victims

• For minimum password length, are 14-character passwords sufficient?

• Appeals Court Win for Open Source Advocate Speaking Out on Licensing Restrictions

• Security in 2020: Revisited

• Metamorfo Malware Returns to Target the Finance Industry

• Android Malware Steals Data From Apps, Records Audio, Captures Screenshots

• Chrome Will Block Insecure Downloads on HTTPS Pages

• Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in January 2020

• Iranian APT 35 Group Posing as Journalist to Phish Victims

• The Oscar nominated movie you just downloaded could be a malware

• Election Security After Iowa

• Busted: Wacom Secretly Tracks How You Use Your Apps

• Apple TV+ Gets First Comedy Series With Launch of ‘Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet’

• IoT Devices at Major Manufacturers Infected With Malware via Supply Chain Attack

• Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: MailTo (NetWalker) Ransomware

• Future-proofing government by fostering connections

• Clause Addition to the IT Act; Social Media Companies Now Responsible For All Nonuser Generated Content

• Automation Part 1: The Robots Are Coming

• From 1s & 0s to Wobbly Lines: The Radio Frequency (RF) Security Starter Guide

• What are some Windows Server 2019 SDN security features?

• Data Crunching: How IT Can Help Your Business to Grow

• Organizations Quick to Patch Critical Citrix ADC Vulnerability

• Apple Stores in China Won’t Reopen as Planned on February 10 Due to Coronavirus Concerns

• Facebook’s Bug Bounty Caught a Data-Stealing Spree

• RobbinHood – the ransomware that brings its own bug

• Cyber News Rundown: Emotet Targets Tax Season

• From 1s & 0s to Wobbly Lines: The Security Pro’s Radio Frequency Starter Kit

• Cyber Attacks Could Cause Financial Crisis, Says ECB Chief Christine Lagarde – Security Expert Reaction

• Designing the Smart Experience at Akamai HQ

• Expert Advise On Google Chrome To Start Blocking Insecure Downloads From Secure Pages

• Week in security with Tony Anscombe

• Robbin Hood – the ransomware that brings its own bug

• New References to AMD Processors Discovered in macOS 10.15.4 Beta

• Google Chrome To Bar HTTP File Downloads

• As coronavirus challenges mount, WHO’s reputation is being hijacked for data theft scams

• Google Docs Phishing Scam – Expert Insight

• Top Best PDF Editor Rank Article 2018

• Lawyers Could Net $30m in Yahoo Data Breach Settlement

• How Shadow IT could put your organization at risk

• Improving email security with MTA-STS

• Uncle Sam tells F-35B allies they’ll have to fly the things a lot more if they want to help out around South China Sea

• Crypto Exchange Loses “Almost All Funds” in Hack

• Ransomware Attack on Translink Ireland

• Banking Trojan ‘Metamorfo’ Now Targeting Online Users’ Banking Services

• Android Phone Users Targeted By Latest Anubis Banking Trojan Campaign – Expert Reaction

• Gorgon Group Grows More Sophisticated

• New Ransomware Targets Industrial Control Systems

• Experts On New Banking Trojan Tricks Users To Retype Passwords Only For Them To Be Stolen

• Hackers Using Oscar Nominated Movies As Bait To Phish And Spread Malware

• Ransomware installs Gigabyte driver to kill antivirus products

• This Week in Security News: ZDI Bug Hunters Rake in $1.5M in 2019 and Metamorfo Trojan Malware Campaign Targets Online Banking Users

• Open source takes on managing and securing the electrical grid

• Critical Citrix RCE Flaw Still Threatens 1,000s of Corporate LANs

• Day 4 of outage: UK’s Manchester police deploy exciting new carbon-based method to record crime

• Japanese defense contractors Pasco and Kobe Steel disclose security breaches

• DoJ Looking for Victims of ‘Quantum Stresser’ DDoS Service

• 5 Measures to Harden Election Technology

• Brazil Judge Rejects Hacking Accusation Against Greenwald

• Phishing Campaign Targets 250 Android Apps with Anubis Malware

• Heimdal™ Security Discovers Gangs Hiding Behind Multiple Domains to Avoid TTPC Detection

• Smart, or Not So Smart? What the Ring Hacks Tell Us About the Future of IoT

• Critical Bluetooth bug leaves Android users open to attack

• The Quarantine Power: A Primer in Light of the Coronavirus Situation

• Infrastructure of Australian Transportation Company Infected with Mailto Ransomware

• Pompeo Visited Ukraine. Good. What Next?

• Those Affected By The Yahoo! Hacks May Only Get 60 Cents

• FBI Outlines Technique Behind DDoS Attacks on US Voter Registration Website

• Coronavirus Brings China’s Surveillance State Out Of The Shadows

• OneWeb Launches Another 34 Broadband Satellites

• First Clinical Trial Of Gene Editing To Help Target Cancer

• U.S. Finance Sector Hit With Targeted Backdoor Campaign

• 2019 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report

• What Leadership Qualities for CISOs Are Most Important in 2020?

• US Mulls Controlling Stake In Ericsson, Nokia To Counter Huawei

• The Cloud’s Sunny Future: The Rewards of Working in Cloud Security

• Critical Bluetooth Vulnerability Exposes Android Devices to Attacks

• Microsoft LDAP Channel Binding and Signing Patch

• New Study Reveals Cybersecurity Risks in the World’s Largest Airports

• Gaming Became Industry Most Affected by DDoS Attacks in 2019

• How to Publish Java Artifacts to Nexus Using Jenkins and Maven

• Learn How Check Point Secured the Branch Office VMware SD-WAN™ for a Global Chemical Company

• Researchers transmit data covertly by altering screen brightness

• Malicious Optimizers Hosted on Google Play Amassed 470,000 Downloads

• Keys to the Kingdom, Smart Cities Security Concerns

• Apple Fined 25 Million Euros in France for Slowing Down Older iPhones With iOS Update

• UK government rolls out red carpet for infamous spyware vendor

• BYO Hardware Driver: New Ransomware Attacks Kernel Memory

• Bouygues Construction falls victim to ransomware

• White Hats Shine a Light on Philips Hue Hack

• Iran-linked APT group Charming Kitten targets journalists, political and human rights activists

• Foxconn Warns Staff to Keep Away From Shenzhen iPhone Plant as Virus Prevention Efforts Continue

• Why hacking must be addressed in digital privacy policymaking

• Best antivirus software: 12 top tools

• Cybercrooks busted for multimillion-dollar identity fraud

• Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints

• 8 top OSINT tools: Find sensitive public info before hackers do

• Wacom driver caught monitoring third-party software use

• Top 5 Platforms You Can Use to Increase Your Chances of Passing Microsoft 70-741 Exam with Practice Tests

• GIGABYTE Driver exploited by ransomware to kill AV Processes

• UK Government Under Fire Over NSO Group Links

• Election hacked by Russians

• Phishing scam spreading fake invoices with malware

• Magecart Gang Attacks Olympic Ticket Reseller and Survival Food Sites

• Chinese hacking campaign warning by Malaysia government

• Fraudsters disguised as journalists in phishing campaign

• Why Smart Buildings Are Vulnerable To Hackers

• Device security firm Forescout snapped up by Advent in $1.9 billion deal

• Senior’s Complete Guide to Internet Scams

• FCW Insider: Feb. 7

• WhatsApp Desktop Platform Security Flaw Allowed Access To Local File System

• Japanese Defense Contractors Pasco, Kobe Steel Disclose Old Breaches

• US Appeals Court Refuses To Overturn Net Neutrality Ruling

• Happy New Fear! Gift-wrapped spam and phishing

• The Coronavirus Effect: Facial Recognition Useless Due to Face Masks

• What Makes An Anti-Malware App Suitable For You

• Facebook Encryption Plans Slammed by Children’s Charities

• Sandbox Detection Tricks & Nice Obfuscation in a Single VBScript , (Fri, Feb 7th)

• Critical Android Bluetooth flaw CVE-2020-0022 could be exploited without user interaction

• Hackers Use Vulnerable Windows Driver to Turn Off the Antivirus

• 42 arrested for trafficking stolen waste from Spain to Asia

• Come eliminare virus da Google Chrome

• Phishers impersonate WHO, exploit coronavirus-related anxiety

• Google Chrome to Get New Feature Blocking Insecure Downloads

• Group of 10 hackers was convicted for stealing gasoline and selling

• February 2020 Patch Tuesday forecast: A lot of love coming our way

• Are We Phish in a Barrel?

• Bill to Prevent Child Porn Could Kill Encryption

• OAIC wants visual on what telcos are handing over under data retention regime

• Weekly Update 177

• New infosec products of the week: February 7, 2020

• Android owners – you’ll want to get these latest security patches, especially for this nasty Bluetooth hijack flaw

• NSA offers Cloud Security guidance in the wake of Azure errors

• Glitch makes data from Google Photos leak to strangers

• Review: Cyber Minds

• Discrepancies between data sanitization policy creation and execution put data at risk

• 43% of cloud databases are currently unencrypted

• New Bluetooth Vulnerability in Android Let Remote Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code & Silently Take Your Device Control

• In 2020, 5G deployments will continue at a frantic pace

• Cops are getting full URLs under Australia’s data retention scheme

• ISC Stormcast For Friday, February 7th 2020 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=6858, (Fri, Feb 7th)

• Healthcare security: How can blockchain help?

• LogicHub launches MDR+ to provide flexible end-to-end detection and response

• Hackers Can Exfiltrate Sensitive Data from Air-Gapped Computers Using Screen Brightness

• Human Rights Commission wants data retention period limited to six months

• US Attorney General says US and allies should invest in Huawei competitors

• Enea Unified Data Manager: A cloud-native network function for 4G and 5G data management

• Facebook fixed a WhatsApp bug that allowed hackers to access local file system

• 2020-02-06 – Quick post: Pcap of Emotet infection with Trickbot

• Malaysia warns of Chinese hacking campaign targeting government projects

• Keysight and Samsung collaborate to accelerate mobile operators’ deployment of 5G services

• Evading Antivirus with Better Meterpreter Payloads

• Google Play apps with 470k installs can log in to your Facebook and Google accounts

• Critical Android Bluetooth Flaw Exploitable without User Interaction

• Sysnet secures funding to support growth and accelerate development of security product offerings

• Google fixes no-user-interaction bug in Android’s Bluetooth component

• Nexthink appoints new CTO, two additional board members, and a new Chairman

• Google fixes no-user-interaction bug in Android’s Bluetooth component

• CISA “not well-positioned” to execute nationwide election security strategy in 2020

• Michel Robert joins Epsilon as Group Chief Executive Officer

• We Respect Your Privacy…

• IT, Legal, Compliance: We Need to Talk.

• How Technology Has Altered the Education Landscape

• Women Unite Over CTF: Inspiring Women to InfoSec

• Case Study: Jouve Digital Takes on Cybersecurity

• IT Security News Daily Summary 2020-02-06

• U.S. Homeland Security has used facial recognition on over 43.7 million people

• The Iowa caucuses app had another problem: It could have been hacked

• How to use 7zip to encrypt files

• Japanese Defense Contractors Kobe Steel, Pasco Disclose Breaches

• New docs outline scope, security requirements for CIA enterprise cloud

• Next-generation endpoint security goes beyond the endpoint

• Good: IT admins scrambled to patch 80 per cent of public-facing Citrix boxes to close nightmare hijack hole

• Adposhel adware takes over browser push notifications administration

• How to combat the top 5 enterprise social media risks

• U.S. 5G security is imperiled by Trump administration infighting and fantasies

• Google to block some HTTP file downloads starting with Chrome 83

• Delivering on the promise of smart parking

• Two More Japanese Defense Contractors Disclose Security Breaches

• Researchers Reveal How Smart Lightbulbs Can Be Hacked to Attack

• Congressional watchdog slams Homeland Security over election security prep

• Chattanooga taps AI to identify hate speech

• 90% of CISOs Would Cut Pay for Better Work-Life Balance

• Hands-On With the Third-Generation iPhone-Compatible Moto 360 Android Watch

• Phishing Personified

• Apple Makes Independent Repair Shops Sign Draconian Contracts to Get Official Parts

• NSS Labs quietly acquired by private equity firm

• Google Chrome to Block Mixed Content Downloads, Prevents MiTM Attacks

• Lessons from Australia’s “OAIC’s Notifiable Data Breach Statistics Report”

• Hackers can steal data from air-gapped PC using screen brightness

• Best Practices for Storage Reclamation – Part 1 of 3

• Obama team couldn’t cope with Russian election meddling, report says

• Forescout acquired by private equity firm for $1.9 billion

• ICS Strengths and Weaknesses (from security perspective)

• Agencies look to ‘low code’ to speed development

• Phishing Attack Disables Google Play Protect, Drops Anubis Trojan

• Why Congress holds the key to DOD tech

• Anchore Federal Streamlines Government DevSecOps Workflows

• Prying “.R” Script Files Away from Xcode (et al) on macOS

• Why Congress holds key to DOD tech

• ACSC Releases Advisory on Mailto Ransomware Incidents

• Access Control Implementation in ICS

• War Powers: 
The Broken Balance Between the Branches

• Emotet Evolves With Wi-Fi Spreader

• The House Impeachment: A Postmortem

• Open-Source Security Projects: Choosing a Brandable .com Domain>

• Facebook now lets parents monitor their children’s chats

• Forescout Acquired by Private Equity Team

• Members of Anonymous Hack UN Website to Support Taiwan

• Cybersecurity Vendor Landscape Transforming as Symantec, McAfee Enter New Eras

• New “SaveTheQueen” Ransomware Found

• Australia’s Toll Group Hit With Ransomware Delaying Goods Shipments Globally

• Why shortcuts lead to failure: Lessons from app disaster in Iowa caucus

• The postmortem: Shadow took lots of shortcuts with Iowa 2020 caucus app

• Adware.Adposhel takes over your web push notifications administration

• Facebook now lets you monitor your children’s chats

• Iranian Hackers Target Journalists in New Phishing Campaign

• DoJ Asks Victims of the Quantum DDoS Service to Come Forward

• Cannabis dispensaries: Security and risk considerations for continued growth

• Metamorfo Returns with Keylogger Trick to Target Financial Firms

• Protecting users from insecure downloads in Google Chrome

• AirPods and AirPods Pro Manufacturing Could Be Impacted by Coronavirus, Leading to Greater Supply Shortages

• Facebook Tops Imitated Brands as Attackers Target Tech

• After the Iowa Caucus Meltdown, New Hampshire Says It’s Ready

• Ransomware Exploits GIGABYTE Driver to Kill AV Processes

• Interview in sputniknews.com: Experte zu Handy-Hacks: So kann man sich schützen

• U.S. Finance Sector Hit with Targeted Backdoor Campaign

• Vodafone To Remove Huawei From Core European Networks

• App Developer Calls For Open Revolt Against Apple

• Realtek HD Audio Driver Package – DLL Preloading and Potential Abuses (CVE-2019-19705)

• A Matter of Trust

• European Parliament Says It Will Not Use Facial Recognition

• Russian Disinformation Ongoing Problem, Says FBI Chief

• Why shortcuts lead to failure: Lessons from app disaster in Iowa

• Cisco Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

• Security Experts Note Buggy Iowa Caucus App Is Buggy

• Children’s Advocates Criticize Facebook Encryption

• Charming Kitten Uses Fake Interview Requests To Target Public Figures

• Apple TV App on Select LG Smart TVs Will Support Dolby Atmos Sound ‘Later This Year’

• Four Reasons Your Cloud Security Is Keeping You Up At Night

• Porn Sites Suffer Highest Number of DDoS Attacks

• New Campaign Leverages BitBucket to Deliver Arsenal of Malware

• Sentar Awarded $164m Cybersecurity Task Order by US Defense Health Agency

• Governments Are Soft Targets for Cyber-criminals

• Obama response to 2016 Russian election meddling had ‘many flaws,’ Senate report finds

• Donald Trump Now Has the Senate GOP’s Blessing to Undermine Democracy

• Iowa and the maladministration of technology

• Invisible Pixel Patterns Can Communicate Data Covertly

• Ethical hacking: IoT hacking tools

• Visionary security partners to be honored at the very first Microsoft Security 20/20 event

• What Can You Do in 44 Seconds?

• S2 Ep25: You’ve seen WHAT on public Trello boards? – Naked Security Podcast

• Cloud Security Firm Netskope Raises $340 Million at $3 Billion Valuation

• Shoe with GPS embedded insole tracks ‘lost’ alzheimer’s & dementia patients

• New Apple TV With A12 Chip or Later Uncovered in tvOS 13.4 Beta

• Beware of malware disguised as Oscar-nominated movies including Joker and Parasite

• Wacom drawing tablets track every app you open

• DLL Hijacking Vulnerability Found in Realtek HD Audio Driver

• Oscar Nominated Movies Featured in Phishing, Malware Attacks

• Cloud security platform Netskope raises $340 million at $3 billion valuation

• Emotet attacks— a spike to start the year…

• Millions of UK Businesses lack a Cyber Insurance Policy

• iOS 13.4 Beta Reveals ‘CarKey’ Feature That Would Turn Your iPhone or Apple Watch Into a Car Key

• Shoe with GPS embedded insole track ‘lost’ alzheimer’s & dementia patients

• Update now – WhatsApp flaw gave attackers access to local files

• This latest phishing scam is spreading fake invoices loaded with malware

• 120 Million Medical Records Leaked! Global Medical Report Sheds More Light.

• Europeans Deserve to Have Their Governments Test—Not Trust—Filters

• BEC Scammers’ Interest in the Real Estate Sector Rises

• The Report: Impeachment, The Final Day

• Why we encourage newcomers and seasoned presenters alike to submit a paper for VB2020

• How Can We Make Election Technology Secure?

• 25 arrests in series of police actions against an Albanian drug trafficking gang

• A Complete Guide to Perform External Penetration Testing on Your Client Network | Step-by-Step Methods

• Philips Smart Lights Vulnerability Allows Hopping To Devices On The Network – Experts Advise

• 4 Times a Security Breach Was Narrowly Avoided

• Facebook Controls Let Parents Read Their Children’s Chats – Expert Comments

• Patch Management Company Automox Raises $30 Million

• Insider threats have increased 47%

• Forescout Technologies to be Acquired in $1.9 Billion Deal

• One In Three NHS Computers Is Still Running Outdated Windows 7 Software

• Armis Discovers 5 Zero-day Vulnerabilities in Cisco’s Discovery Protocol Impacting Tens of Millions of Enterprise-grade Devices

• SECURITY ALERT: US Users Targeted with Corona Virus Phishing Attacks

• Emotet Attacks Spread Alongside Fears of Coronavirus

• Louisiana Governor Urges Officials to Ready for Cyberattacks

• Apple Closes 42 Stores In China Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

• Open Source & Secure Software Development Are Not Mutually Exclusive

• The RSAC 2020 Trend Report

• Worlds gets $10 million to help enterprises observe their physical environments with AI

• The Tap Economy Part 1: Screen Commerce

• Huawei Hits Verizon With Patent Lawsuit

• IoT is a gold mine for hackers using fileless malware for cyberattacks

• Announcing Cortex XDR Managed Threat Hunting Service And New XDR Features

• IBM CEO Ginni Rometty Steps Down, Arvind Krishna To Take Over

• Researchers reckon 500k PCs infested with malware after dodgy downloads install even more nasties from Bitbucket

• What Data Carriers Can Collect About You Using Just the Phone Number

• Twitter bans deepfakes, but only those ‘likely to cause harm’

• Dutch court rules AI benefits fraud detection system violates EU human rights

• How your network could be hacked through a Philips Hue smart bulb

• Bug in Philips Smart Light Allows Hopping to Devices on the Network

• How your screen’s brightness could be leaking data from your air-gapped computer

• Experts On FBI Warns Re Potential DDoS Attack On State Voter Registration Website

• Persistent Engagement and Cost Imposition: Distinguishing Between Cause and Effect

• RSAC Sets Finalists for Innovation Sandbox

• cdpwn – Millions of devices at risk due to flaws in implementations of Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)

• Malicious Optimizer and Utility Android Apps on Google Play Communicate with Trojans that Install Malware, Perform Mobile Ad Fraud

• Cut Your Security Operations Time By 60% with the New R80 Security Management-as-a-Service

• University of Maastricht Paid 30 Bitcoins to Ransomware Attackers

• Experts Reaction On Researcher Finds Vulnerability In WhatsApp Desktop Platform

• Biased AI Is Another Sign We Need to Solve the Cybersecurity Diversity Problem

• Health Share of Oregon discloses data breach, theft of member PII

• FBI Director Warns of Ongoing Russian ‘Information Warfare’

• Google’s Chrome 80 clamps down on cookies and notification spam

• Windows 10 patch expert: Dear Mr Panay, please fix Microsoft’s buggy updates

• What Expert Says On 500,000+ Bitbucket Hosts Have Been Infected With Malware

• Charming Kitten Uses Fake Interview Requests to Target Public Figures

• A New Clue for the Kryptos Sculpture

• Experts Insight On Brazilian Firm Exposes Personal Details Of Thousands Of Soccer Fans

• Dropbox Passes $1M Milestone for Bug-Bounty Payouts

• Iranian Phishers Use Journalist’s Identity to Steal Info

• Risk profiling gives PPD real-time view of vulnerabilities

• 6 tips for building your cybersecurity bench

• Health Records Firm Epic and About 60 Client Hospitals Object to Data Sharing Rules Supported by Apple

• Why Are People Worried About Huawei?

• Android pulls 24 ‘dangerous’ malware-filled apps from Play Store

• 90% of UK Data Breaches Due to Human Error in 2019

• Microsoft: We Detect 77,000 Web Shells Each Month

• Dutch university pays $220,000 ransom to infamous Russian cybercrime ring

• Return of the CamuBot Banking Trojan attack

• Facebook’s Messenger Kids App to Allow Parents to Peer into Their Childs Inbox

• Emotet can spread to poorly secured Wi-Fi networks and computers on them

• Personal Information of 654K Medicaid patients exposed in breach

• This crafty malware makes you retype your passwords so it can steal them

• Air-Gapped Computers targeted by exfiltrating data from using screen brightness

• Philips Smart Light bug allows hopping to devices on network

• Phishing scam circulating about Coronavirus “safety measures”

• Twitter Confirms it Will Only Ban “Harmful” Deepfakes

• Check Point Research Brand Phishing report – Q4

• Qualcomm Confirms EU Antitrust Probe Of 5G Chips

• Hacking Wi-Fi networks by exploiting a flaw in Philips Smart Light Bulbs

• 3 Malware Trends to Watch Out for in 2020

• Bitbucket Abused as Malware Slinger

• Location of Couple Infected with Coronavirus Found Using Phone Tracking System

• The Rise of the Open Bug Bounty Project

• Biggest Password Mistakes: Notes From an Expert

• Charming Kitten Hackers Pose a High-Profile Journalists to Target Public Figures

• Honware: IoT honeypot for detecting zero-day exploits

• Which vulnerabilities were most exploited by cybercriminals in 2019?

• Your Smartphone: Ground Zero for Cyberattacks

• Firmware Backdoors Discovered in Surveillance Cameras

• The Goldilocks principle for zero trust fraud prevention

• LCD pwn System: How to modulate screen brightness to covertly transmit data from an air-gapped computer… slowly

• Chrome 80 Released With 56 Security Fixes

• Academics steal data from air-gapped systems using screen brightness variations

• Cyberattackers decreased their activity at the end of 2019, but only to change tactics

• Cyber Threat to Phillips Hue Bulbs

• ISC Stormcast For Thursday, February 6th 2020 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=6856, (Thu, Feb 6th)

• How IoT devices open a portal for chaos across the network

• In 2019 over 9.9 billion malware attacks were recorded

• How the B-Team watches over Australia’s encryption laws and cybersecurity

• FUD-free analysis: Natural language processing (NLP)

• So You Want to Achieve NERC CIP-013-1 Compliance…

• Navy seeks unmanned fleet, but Congress needs convincing

• Acunetix 13 web app security scanner comes with many innovations

• A look at CMMC

• NCP Secure Enterprise Management Server now supports 2FA through a web interface

• Secure Code Warrior and Manicode Security to lead Learning Lab at RSA Conference 2020

• Wind River and T-Systems deliver 5G cloud network management

• Yahoo! hack! payout! nearly! approved! and! the! question! is! how! to! spend! 60! cents!?

• Samsung introduces high-performing DRAM, helps advance supercomputers, AI-driven data analytics

• When Your Used Car is a Little Too ‘Mobile’

• NTT DATA Services enters strategic collaboration agreement with AWS

• Vixie: The Unintended Consequences of Internet Privacy Efforts

• Majority of Network, App-Layer DDoS Attacks in 2019 Were Small

• Aon acquires Cytelligence, a firm with deep expertise in cyber incident response

• DEF CON 27, Recon Village – Joe Gray’s ‘DECEPTICON: Deceptive Techniques To Derail OSINT Attempts’

• Automox raises $30 million to automate endpoint hardening

• Terrifying bug in WhatsApp allows hackers to steal files. So get patching all nine of you using it on the desktop

• Retirement claims for feds spike in January

• NYPD Abandons Paper Memo Books for New iPhone App

• BlackBerry’s New Digital Workplace Secures the Modern Workforce

• FBI still not pushing for encryption legislation

• Azure AD for Remote Users

• Department of Energy Adds Attivo Decoys for Critical Infrastructure Security

• IT Security News Daily Summary 2020-02-05

• The 11 Best Cyber Security Books — Recommendations from the Experts

• IoT Malware Campaign Infects Global Manufacturing Sites

• Governance is key to smooth the adoption of automation

• DHS looks to automate cyber compliance

• Army gets tactical with latest cloud pilot

• How Twitter’s Default Settings Can Leak Your Phone Number

• How To Protect Your Phone Number On Twitter

• Apple Shipped an Estimated 30.7 Million Apple Watches in 2019, Beating Entire Swiss Watch Industry

• (ISC)2 Expands Cybersecurity Awareness Efforts in Australia with Strategic Partnership

• Sketchy behavior? Wacom tablet drivers phone home with names, times of every app opened on your computer

• Fake browser update pages are “still a thing”, (Wed, Feb 5th)

• Hackable Cisco Phones, a Locust Invasion, and More News

• CDPwn vulnerabilities open millions of Cisco enterprise devices to attack

• 2020-02-04 – Pcap and malware for an ISC diary (SocGholish)

• Medicaid CCO Vendor Breach Exposes Health, Personal Info of 654K

• Three agencies team on cyber defense of energy infrastructure

• Congratulations to the 2020 Federal 100

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