January 2020 – PossibleThreat Articles

Iowa Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Men Hired to Test Their Security

January 31, 2020 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, ars technica, chad leonard, chris nickerson, coalfire, dallas county, dallas county attorney charles sinnard, dan goodin, gary demercurio, justin wynn, matthew linholm, sen. zach whiting, state sen. amy sinclair, tom mcandrew

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 21:06:18 +0000

On Sept. 11, 2019, two security experts at a company that had been hired by the state of Iowa to test the physical and network security of its judicial system were arrested while probing the security of an Iowa county courthouse, jailed in orange jumpsuits, charged with burglary, and held on $100,000 bail. On Thursday Jan. 30, prosecutors in Iowa announced they had dropped the criminal charges. The news came while KrebsOnSecurity was conducting a video interview with the two accused (featured below).

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Serious Security – How ‘special case’ code blew a hole in OpenSMTPD

January 31, 2020 0 Comments eop, Exploit, openbsd, opensmtpd, Patch, rce, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 17:49:43 +0000

Patch now before you receive a message that’s more than just bad news!<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/4YZhTzLrMmk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Android Malware Targets Diabetic Patients

January 31, 2020 0 Comments

Read FortiGuard Labs’ analysis of a recent android malware targeting diabetic patients.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortinet/blog/threat-research/~4/Xmw8XGNbHzI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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This Week in Security News: Over 2,000 WordPress Accounts Compromised and Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Class Action Case Over Facial Recognition

January 31, 2020 0 Comments Current News, Security

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:03:53 +0000

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, over two thousand WordPress sites were compromised using a malicious script that redirects visitors to scam websites. Also, read about how Facebook has agreed to pay $550…

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The DOJ Is Finally Suing US Telecom Providers for Robocalls

January 31, 2020 0 Comments Security, Security / Security News

Credit to Author: Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 01:00:00 +0000

The defendants have allegedly connected hundreds of millions of fraudulent robocalls to US residents.

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The Fractured Future of Browser Privacy

January 31, 2020 0 Comments Security, Security / Privacy

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 20:20:40 +0000

Better anti-tracking measures have become the norm for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and other modern browsers. But they still disagree on how exactly they should work.

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Warren Pledges to Fight Disinformation, but Her Arsenal Is Limited

January 31, 2020 0 Comments Security, Security / National Security

Credit to Author: Gilad Edelman| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 19:12:44 +0000

When it comes to stopping the spread of false information in the 2020 election, everyone is at the mercy of Big Tech.

Security Sophos

UN hacked via unpatched SharePoint server

January 31, 2020 0 Comments cve-2019-0604, data loss, exposed data, GDPR, GDPR compliance, hacked servers, Privacy, security threats, sharepoint, the new humanitarian, un, un secretary-general, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 13:04:44 +0000

UN staffers: the “entire domain” was probably compromised by an attacker who was lurking on the UN’s networks.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/RonIAIVbyIQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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US Interior Dept extends drone grounding over foreign hacking fears

January 31, 2020 0 Comments china, drones, security threats, uas

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 12:39:23 +0000

The DOI has doubled down on a previous order, keeping the agency’s drones grounded for another 30 days for a more in-depth security review.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/WAwnXRjPMI8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Financial tech firms disagree on ban of customer data screen-scraping

January 31, 2020 0 Comments apis, australia, ban, consumer data right, data aggregation, data loss, financial industry, financial technology, fintech, Law & order, lisa schutz, open banking, Privacy, privacy act, screen scraping, security threats, verifier

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 12:05:49 +0000

They use it to offer things like budgeting apps. It puts passwords and privacy at risk, but some say they can’t afford to build APIs instead.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/p33_Z7ZunMU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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