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Twitter’s new policy bans financial scams

September 25, 2019 0 Comments bitcoin, confidence, confidence fraud, confidence scams, cyrptocurrency, elon musk, financial scams, fraud, policy, security threats, Social networks, Spam, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:30:59 +0000

“Oh no! However shall I give away Bitcoin to all my followers?” sobbed a bunch of crooks.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/RF4–MivPx4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Sophos named a Leader in the 2019 Endpoint Forrester Wave

September 24, 2019 0 Comments Corporate, endpoint forrester wave, Intercept X, Intercept X Advanced, Sophos Products

Credit to Author: Seth Geftic| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 21:45:16 +0000

Sophos has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security Suites, Q3 2019. Sophos Intercept X, the world’s best endpoint protection, was included as one of the “15 most significant” endpoint security suites. Forrester noted that our “Intercept X product supplies on-host machine learning classification along with telemetry for its cloud-based Intercept X […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/X72epzZmrQ4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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OEM update – Sophos and Arcserve form global tech alliance

September 24, 2019 0 Comments arcserve, Corporate, Intercept X Advanced for Server, Intercept X for Server, Sophos Products

Credit to Author: Editor| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 20:51:43 +0000

Sophos has teamed up with Arcserve to form an alliance that combines our industry-leading cybersecurity for servers with the world’s leading data protection and backup expertise. The technology partnership will enable Arcserve to integrate with Sophos Intercept X Advanced for Server on its 9000 series appliances, delivering multi-layer protection that combines anti-ransomware and other threat […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/nRTLZ0P7W_Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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YouTube ‘influencers’ get 2FA tokens phished

September 24, 2019 0 Comments 2-factor Authentication, 2fa, account hijacking, Google, modlishka, otp, reverse proxy toolkit, security threats, Social networks, titan, two-factor authentication, u2f, youtube, yubico

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 14:50:29 +0000

100K or so creators in the YouTube car community were targeted by a phishing campaign that captured 2FA codes.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/G-FEjS09n3I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple restricts old adblocking tech

September 24, 2019 0 Comments ad blocker, Adblocker, Apple, Apple Safari, browser extensions, content blocking, online ads, Safari, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:29:26 +0000

Apple has turned off the ability for adblocking companies to use their own blocking mechanisms in Safari.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/O7GTlWpHw1M” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook has booted tens of thousands of data-grabbing apps

September 24, 2019 0 Comments apis, app developers, Cambridge Analytica, click injection, developers, facebook, fraud, graph api, jedimobi, lawsuits, lionmobi, mypersonality, Privacy, rankwave, rogue applications, Social networks, suspended apps, suspension

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 11:09:47 +0000

400 developers have been naughty with user data, noncompliant with policy, and/or have ignored Facebook’s audit, it says.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/SBAAxQd8xAE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple restricts adblocking extensions

September 24, 2019 0 Comments ad blocker, Adblocker, Apple, Apple Safari, browser extensions, content blocking, online ads, Safari, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:29:26 +0000

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Jira development and ticketing software hit by critical flaws

September 24, 2019 0 Comments altassian, CVEs, jira data center, jira service desk data center, jira service desk server, security threats, vulnerability

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:10:40 +0000

Admins have a spot of patching work on their hands after the company released updates addressing two critical flaws.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/VgbcYoVOVyk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Instagram phish poses as copyright infringement warning – don’t click!

September 24, 2019 0 Comments 2fa, Instagram, phishing

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 09:26:39 +0000

Your Instagram account has value to the crooks – so they’re coming up with some cunning tricks to get at your passsword.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Gsj6ZQF0XFA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google pulls more fake adblockers from Chrome Web Store

September 23, 2019 0 Comments ad block, ad blocking, Adblocker, adguard, bug bounty program, chrome, chrome web store, fake adblocker, Google, Google Chrome, security threats, ublock origin, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:47:31 +0000

Google has again been reprimanded for not spotting fake extensions impersonating popular brands in its Chrome Web Store.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/bENpOujBKCo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>