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Microsoft Notified 10,000 Victims of Nation-state Attacks

Retrieved from ZDNet - By: Catalin Cimpanu

Microsoft reported that over the past year it notified nearly 10,000 users that they had been targeted and/or compromised by nation-state hackers; most coming from Iran, North Korea, and Russia....

Posted: July 18, 2019, 9:21 AM

Cisco Webex Emails

Today many staff received an email from Cisco Webex regarding the creation of their new account. This email is legitimate, but we didn't intend to announce this yet as we are still finalizing the...

Posted: July 17, 2019, 2:00 PM

Attack Lets Android Apps Function Without Permission

Retrieved from The Hacker News - by: Swati Khandelwal

Research has revealed that over 1,300 Android apps are gathering sensitive information even when users specifically deny permission for those apps to function.  Read more here:...

Posted: July 17, 2019, 9:49 AM

Cracked windshield helps hacker find bug in Tesla

Retrieved from SC Magazine - By: Bradley Barth

A hacker cracked the windshield in his Tesla which led to the the discovery of a software bug. This discovery, under Tesla's bug bounty reward program, resulted in a hefty reward for the hacker. ...

Posted: July 17, 2019, 9:34 AM

Firefox will mark all HTTP pages as 'not secure'

Retrieved from ZDNet - By: Catalin Cimpanu

Mozilla Firefox has announced that, like Google Chrome has done in the past, this coming October they will be introducing a "not secure" indicator for HTTP websites in Firefox Red more here:...

Posted: July 17, 2019, 9:19 AM

Instagram Account Vulnerability Earns Hacker $30,000

Retrieved from Security Week - By: Eduard Kovacs

Facebook awards researcher and ethical hacker, Laxman Muthiya $30,000 for discovering a critical vulnerability that hackers could have easily exploited to hack Instagram accounts. Read more...

Posted: July 15, 2019, 10:26 AM

Media File Jacking via WhatsApp and Telegram

Retrieved from Security Week - By: Eduard Kovacs

Symantec warns that hackers can exploit a default configuration in WhatsApp and Telegram in order to manipulate media files transferred by users if they have the "save to gallery" option enabled....

Posted: July 15, 2019, 8:49 AM

Zoom Security Flaw Exposes Webcam Hijack Risk

Retrieved from Forbes - By: Zak Doffman

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/07/09/warning-as-millions-of-zoom-users-risk-webcam-hijack-change-your-settings-now/#102891c642d9

Posted: July 10, 2019, 10:47 AM