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Cryptocurrency Scam Spreads Across High-Profile Twitter Accounts
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
Twitter accounts belonging to former president Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates are among those hijacked in a massive cryptocurrency scam.
By Dark Reading Staff , 7/15/2020
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New Attack Technique Uses Misconfigured Docker API
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A new technique builds and deploys an attack on the victim's own system
By Dark Reading Staff , 7/15/2020
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Puzzles and Riddles Help InfoSec Pros Solve Real-World Problems
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
A researcher shares the unexpected lessons learned in years of creating puzzles and riddles for his cybersecurity colleagues.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 7/15/2020
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'Patch ASAP': Cisco Issues Updates for Routers, VPN Firewall
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Cisco issues five critical security patches among a batch of some 31 updates.
By Dark Reading Staff , 7/15/2020
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Vulns in Open Source EHR Puts Patient Health Data at Risk
Jai Vijayan, Contributing WriterNews
Five high-risk flaws in health IT software from LibreHealth, a researcher at Bishop Fox finds.
By Jai Vijayan Contributing Writer, 7/15/2020
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How Nanotechnology Will Disrupt Cybersecurity
Bernie Brode, Nano Product ResearcherCommentary
Tangible solutions related to cryptography, intelligent threat detection and consumer security are closer than you think.
By Bernard Brode , 7/15/2020
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Top 5 Questions (and Answers) About GRC Technology
Matt Kunkel, Co-founder & CEO, LogicGateCommentary
For the first time in a long time, we must shift from managing localized risks against a landscape of economic growth to managing those issues under much less certain circumstances.
By Matt Kunkel Co-founder & CEO, LogicGate, 7/15/2020
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DevSecOps Requires a Different Approach to Security
Robert Lemos, Contributing WriterNews
Breaking applications into microservices means more difficulty in gaining good visibility into runtime security and performance issues, says startup Traceable.
By Robert Lemos Contributing Writer, 7/14/2020
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Microsoft Patches Wormable RCE Flaw in Windows DNS Servers
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
Patch Tuesday security updates address a critical vulnerability in Windows DNS Servers, which researchers believe is likely to be exploited.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 7/14/2020
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'Make Your Bed' and Other Life Lessons for Security
Joshua Goldfarb, Independent ConsultantCommentary
Follow this advice from a famous military commanders' commencement speech and watch your infosec team soar.
By Joshua Goldfarb Independent Consultant, 7/14/2020
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Google Cloud Unveils 'Confidential VMs' to Protect Data in Use
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
Confidential Virtual Machines, now in beta, will let Google Cloud customers keep data encrypted while it's in use.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 7/14/2020
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Critical Vulnerability Hits SAP Enterprise Applications
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RECON could allow an unauthenticated attacker to take control of SAP enterprise applications through the web interface.
By Dark Reading Staff , 7/14/2020
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New Mirai Variant Surfaces with Exploits for 9 Vulnerabilities Products
Jai Vijayan, Contributing WriterNews
Impacted products include routers, IP cameras, DVRs, and smart TVs.
By Jai Vijayan Contributing Writer, 7/14/2020
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Crypto-Primer: Encryption Basics Every Security Pro Should Know
Jan Youngren, Cybersecurity Expert, VPNpro.comCommentary
With so many choices for encrypting data and communication, it's important to know the pros and cons of different techniques.
By Jan Youngren Cybersecurity Expert, VPNpro.com, 7/14/2020
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99% of Websites at Risk of Attack Via JavaScript Plug-ins
Steve Zurier, Contributing WriterNews
The average website includes content from 32 different third-party JavaScript programs, new study finds.
By Steve Zurier Contributing Writer, 7/14/2020
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COVID-19: Latest Security News & Commentary
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By Dark Reading Staff , 7/14/2020
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Zero-Trust Efforts Rise with the Tide of Remote Working
Robert Lemos, Contributing WriterNews
With employees likely to continue to spend much, if not all, of their time working from home, companies are focusing more on technologies to boost the security of their now-distributed workplace.
By Robert Lemos Contributing Writer, 7/13/2020
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A Paramedic's Lessons for Cybersecurity Pros
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
A paramedic turned cybersecurity expert shares his experiences in both fields, highlights their similarities, and explains how they can learn from each other.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 7/13/2020
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Lost in Translation: Serious Flaws Found in ICS Protocol Gateways
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark ReadingNews
These oft-forgotten devices contain serious vulnerabilities that allow attackers to hack OT systems remotely, researchers will reveal at Black Hat USA next month.
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Executive Editor at Dark Reading, 7/13/2020
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Russian Hacker Convicted for Social Network Hacks
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The Russian national was convicted of hacking into accounts at LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring.
By Dark Reading Staff , 7/13/2020
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CVE-2020-10287
PUBLISHED: 2020-07-15
The IRC5 family with UAS service enabled comes by default with credentials that can be found on publicly available manuals. ABB considers this a well documented functionality that helps customer set up however, out of our research, we found multiple production systems running these exact default cre...
CVE-2020-10288
PUBLISHED: 2020-07-15
IRC5 exposes an ftp server (port 21). Upon attempting to gain access you are challenged with a request of username and password, however you can input whatever you like. As long as the field isn't empty it will be accepted.
CVE-2020-15780
PUBLISHED: 2020-07-15
An issue was discovered in drivers/acpi/acpi_configfs.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.7. Injection of malicious ACPI tables via configfs could be used by attackers to bypass lockdown and secure boot restrictions, aka CID-75b0cea7bf30.
CVE-2019-17639
PUBLISHED: 2020-07-15
In Eclipse OpenJ9 prior to version 0.21 on Power platforms, calling the System.arraycopy method with a length longer than the length of the source or destination array can, in certain specially crafted code patterns, cause the current method to return prematurely with an undefined return value. This...
CVE-2019-20908
PUBLISHED: 2020-07-15
An issue was discovered in drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c in the Linux kernel before 5.4. Incorrect access permissions for the efivar_ssdt ACPI variable could be used by attackers to bypass lockdown or secure boot restrictions, aka CID-1957a85b0032.
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