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CISA Warns of Phishing Campaign with Loan-Relief Lure
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
Phishing emails and fake website promise help with the Small Business Administration's program that aids those affected by COVID-19.
By Dark Reading Staff , 8/13/2020
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Healthcare Industry Sees Respite From Attacks in First Half of 2020
Robert Lemos, Contributing WriterNews
Breach disclosures are down, and reported ransomware attacks have also plummeted. Good news -- or a calm before the storm?
By Robert Lemos Contributing Writer, 8/13/2020
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Business Email Compromise Attacks Involving MFA Bypass Increase
Jai Vijayan, Contributing WriterNews
Adversaries are using legacy email clients to access and take over accounts protected with strong authentication, Abnormal Security says.
By Jai Vijayan Contributing Writer, 8/13/2020
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RedCurl APT Group Hacks Global Companies for Corporate Espionage
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
Researchers analyze a presumably Russian-speaking APT group that has been stealing corporate data since 2018.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 8/13/2020
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The Race to Hack a Satellite at DEF CON
Curtis Franklin Jr., Senior Editor at Dark ReadingNews
Eight teams competed to win cash, bragging rights, and the chance to control a satellite in space.
By Curtis Franklin Jr. Senior Editor at Dark Reading, 8/13/2020
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Boeing's DEF CON Debut a Sign of the Times
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark ReadingNews
In the wake of a stalemate between the airplane manufacturer and a security researcher over vulns found in its 787 aircraft's network, Boeing says it's ready to "embrace" the hacker community.
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Executive Editor at Dark Reading, 8/13/2020
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Secure Development Takes a (Remote) Village
Guy Podjarny, CEO & Cofounder, SnykCommentary
The shift to work from home isn't just about giving your Dev team the physical tools they need.
By Guy Podjarny CEO & Cofounder, Snyk, 8/13/2020
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NSA & FBI Disclose New Russian Cyberespionage Malware
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APT 28, aka Fancy Bear, is deploying the Drovorub malware designed for Linux systems as part of cyber-espionage operations.
By Dark Reading Staff , 8/13/2020
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Black Hat USA 2020 Shines Spotlight on the Mental Challenges of Cybersecurity
Eric Parizo, Senior Analyst, OmdiaCommentary
Infosec practitioners face a variety of mental struggles in areas such as awareness training, problem solving, or general mental health. Several sessions at Black Hat USA 2020 highlighted these challenges and how to overcome them.
By Eric Parizo Senior Analyst, Omdia, 8/13/2020
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Security Jobs With a Future -- And Ones on the Way Out
Joan Goodchild, Contributing Writer
Some titles are hot, while others are not, amid rapidly shifting business priorities.
By Joan Goodchild Contributing Writer, 8/13/2020
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With iOS's Privacy Nutrition Label, Apple Upstages Regulators
Heather Federman, VP of Privacy & Policy at BigIDCommentary
New iOS privacy features require developers to disclose what data they're collecting, how they're using it, and with whom they share it.
By Heather Federman VP of Privacy & Policy at BigID, 8/13/2020
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Adaptive Shield Emerges From Stealth
Jai Vijayan, Contributing WriterNews
Israeli startup joins growing number of vendors offering platform for detecting and mitigating common configuration errors in cloud environments.
By Jai Vijayan Contributing Writer, 8/13/2020
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Emotet Return Brings New Tactics & Evasion Techniques
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
Security researchers tracking Emotet report its reemergence brings new tricks, including new evasion techniques to bypass security tools.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 8/13/2020
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FireEye Announces New Bug-Bounty Program
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
The program, administered by Bugcrowd, will pay bounties of up to $2,500 per vulnerability.
By Dark Reading Staff , 8/12/2020
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Using 'Data for Good' to Control the Pandemic
Neil Sweeney, Founder & CEO, KilliCommentary
The tech community should unite to develop and distribute a universal COVID-19 contact-tracing application. Here's why and how.
By Neil Sweeney Founder & CEO, Killi, 8/12/2020
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SANS Security Training Firm Hit with Data Breach
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
A phishing email allowed an attacker to compromise a SANS employee's email environment, the organization reports.
By Dark Reading Staff , 8/12/2020
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Name That Toon: 'Rise' and Shine
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By John Klossner Cartoonist, 8/12/2020
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Threats vs. Thrift: Running Effective AppSec During a Global Crisis
Patrick Carey, Vice President Product Management, ExopriseCommentary
By looking at security testing capacity, staff expertise, and risks throughout the software supply chain, application security teams can improve their overall effectiveness.
By Patrick Carey Vice President Product Management, Exoprise, 8/12/2020
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Kr00k, KRACK, and the Seams in Wi-Fi, IoT Encryption
Ericka Chickowski, Contributing WriterNews
Black Hat talk expands on research that uncovered more weaknesses in Wi-Fi chips allowing for the unauthorized decryption of traffic.
By Ericka Chickowski Contributing Writer, 8/12/2020
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Researchers Trick Facial-Recognition Systems
Jai Vijayan, Contributing WriterNews
Goal was to see if computer-generated images that look like one person would get classified as another person.
By Jai Vijayan Contributing Writer, 8/11/2020
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CVE-2019-20383
PUBLISHED: 2020-08-13
ABBYY network license server in ABBYY FineReader 15 before Release 4 (aka 15.0.112.2130) allows escalation of privileges by local users via manipulations involving files and using symbolic links.
CVE-2020-24348
PUBLISHED: 2020-08-13
njs through 0.4.3, used in NGINX, has an out-of-bounds read in njs_json_stringify_iterator in njs_json.c.
CVE-2020-24349
PUBLISHED: 2020-08-13
njs through 0.4.3, used in NGINX, allows control-flow hijack in njs_value_property in njs_value.c. NOTE: the vendor considers the issue to be "fluff" in the NGINX use case because there is no remote attack surface.
CVE-2020-7360
PUBLISHED: 2020-08-13
An Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in SmartControl version 4.3.15 and versions released before April 15, 2020 may allow an authenticated user to escalate privileges by placing a specially crafted DLL file in the search path. This issue was fixed in version 1.0.7, which was r...
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