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Equifax Settles Class-Action Breach Lawsuit for $380.5M

Class members have until Jan. 22, next week, to claim benefits.

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How to Comprehend the Buzz About Honeypots

Honeypots are crucial tools for security researchers and security teams. Understanding what they are and what they can do can be critical for making them safe and useful for your organization.

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New Report Spotlights Changes in Phishing Techniques

Common and evolving strategies include the use of zero-font attacks, homograph attacks, and new tactics for fake attachments.

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More than 600 million users installed Android 'fleeceware' apps from the Play Store

A new set of 25 Android apps caught illegally charging users at the end of a trial period.

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ISACs Join Forces to Secure the Travel Industry

Together, the Travel & Hospitality ISAC and the Retail & Hospitality ISAC intend to improve communications and collaboration about the evolving threat landscape.

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Trump Slams Apple for Refusing to Unlock Suspected Shooter’s iPhones

Legal battle pitting Feds against the tech giant over data privacy and device security in criminal cases seems inevitable.

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Google to end support for third‑party cookies in Chrome

The company will also soon launch anti-fingerprinting measures aimed at detecting and mitigating covert tracking and workarounds

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Google to end support for third‑party cookies in Chrome

The company will also soon launch anti-fingerprinting measures aimed at detecting and mitigating covert tracking and workarounds

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How SD-WAN Helps Achieve Data Security and Threat Protection

Enterprises currently consider the technology a best practice because of its flexibility, scalability, performance, and agility.

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Facebook to notify users of third-party app logins

Facebook rolls out improved security notifications for logins with Facebook accounts on third-party apps and websites.

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P&N Bank discloses data breach, customer account information, balances exposed

The Australian bank says a cyberattack took place during a server upgrade.

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Oski Data-Stealing Malware Emerges to Target North America, China

The malware is new and in the early stages of its development -- but packs a sophisticated punch.

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You can now use an iPhone as a security key for Google accounts

All iPhones running iOS 10 or later can now be used as hardware security keys for Google accounts.

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Critical bugs in WordPress plugins InfiniteWP, WP Time Capsule expose 320,000 websites to attack

If you use these plugins you should update immediately as firewall protection will not work.

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Adobe’s first 2020 security patch update fixes code execution vulnerabilities

This month’s security round is small but resolves some important bugs.

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Go With Passphrases

Passphrases are the strongest type of passwords and the easiest to remember. Simply use an entire sentence for your password, such as "What time is coffee?" By using spaces and punctuation, you create a long password that is hard to guess but easy to remember.

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Patch Tuesday, January 2020 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to plug 50 security holes in various flavors of Windows and related software. The patch batch includes a fix for a flaw in Windows 10 and server equivalents of this operating system that prompted an unprecedented public warning from the U.S. National Security Agency. This month also marks the end of mainstream support for Windows 7, a still broadly-used operating system that will no longer be supplied with security updates.

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Oracle Ties Previous All-Time Patch High with January Updates

The software giant patched 300+ bugs in its quarterly update.

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Microsoft Patches Windows Vuln Discovered by the NSA

The National Security Agency is publicly acknowledged for its finding and reporting of CVE-2020-0601, marking the start of what it says is a new approach to security.

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Cloud Adoption & Technology Change Create Gaps in Enterprise Security

Many companies are struggling to get a handle on risk exposure because of visibility issues, Radware survey shows.