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Is “global privacy” an oxymoron?

While in France, a citizen of Brazil who resides in California books a bungee jump in New Zealand. Is it a leap of faith into the unknown, for both the operator and the thrill-seeker?

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Account details for 4 million Quidd users shared on hacking forum

Users of Quidd​, an online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, are advised to change account passwords as soon as possible.

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Network Data Shows Spikes, Vulnerability of Work-at-Home Shift

Traffic on the public Internet has grown by half this year, and videoconferencing bandwidth has grown by a factor of five, all driven by remote-work edicts.

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Dell Releases Security Tool to Defend PCs from BIOS Attacks

The SafeBIOS Events & Indicators of Attack tool gives admins visibility into BIOS configuration changes and alerts them to potential threats.

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Oracle Tackles a Massive 405 Bugs for Its April Quarterly Patch Update

Oracle will detail 405 new security vulnerabilities Tuesday, part of its quarterly Critical Patch Update Advisory.

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Dutch Police Shut Down 15 DDoS-for-Hire Services

Officials arrested a man suspected of launching a DDoS attack against two websites that send government updates to citizens.

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Overlay Malware Leverages Chrome Browser, Targets Banks and Heads to Spain

The Grandoreiro banking malware uses remote overlay and a fake Chrome browser plugin to steal from banking customers.

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Pandemic Could Make Schools Bigger Targets of Ransomware Attacks

Most have had to implement distance learning, making them much more vulnerable, Armor says.

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Dell releases new tool to detect BIOS attacks

Dell makes new tool named SafeBIOS Events & Indicators of Attack available for download for all Dell commercial PCs.

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Cybercrime May Be the World's Third-Largest Economy by 2021

The underground economy is undergoing an industrialization wave and booming like never before.

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Unclassified and Secure

By William Knowles @c4i Senior Editor InfoSec News April 12, 2020 A new report from the RAND Corporation, by Daniel Gonzales, Sarah Harting, Mary Kate Adgie, Julia Brackup, Lindsey Polley, and Karlyn D. Stanley The defense industrial base (DIB) is under attack. Foreign actors are stealing large amounts of sensitive data, trade secrets, and intellectual property every […]

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SFO Websites Hacked: Airport Discloses Data Breach

San Francisco International Airport notified users of two low-traffic websites of a data breach that occurred in March.

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Apple, Google Team on Coronavirus Tracking – Sparking Privacy Fears

Apple and Google announced that decentralized Bluetooth technology will soon be rolled out for coronavirus contact tracing. The privacy implications are worrisome for some.

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New IRS Site Could Make it Easy for Thieves to Intercept Some Stimulus Payments

The U.S. federal government is now in the process of sending Economic Impact Payments by direct deposit to millions of Americans. Most who are eligible for payments can expect to have funds direct-deposited into the same bank accounts listed on previous years' tax filings sometime next week. Today, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stood up a site to collect bank account information from the many Americans who don't usually file a tax return. The question is, will those non-filers have a chance to claim their payments before fraudsters do?

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WooCommerce Falls to Fresh Card-Skimmer Malware

The payment-card stealer differs from typical malware targeting WordPress-based e-commerce environments.

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SFO Hit by Web Compromise

Web app credentials were stolen in attacks on two airport websites.

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Only 40% of Small Business Owners Have a Cybersecurity Policy

Small business owners are concerned about cyberattacks targeting remote workers but lack the resources to invest in security.

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Dutch police take down 15 DDoS services in a week

Dutch authorities launch sudden strike against DDoS-for-hire operators; take down 15 sites in a week.

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Critical VMware Bug Opens Up Corporate Treasure to Hackers

The bug -- rated 10 in severity -- potentially affects large numbers of corporate VMs and hosts.

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When All Behavior is Abnormal, How Do We Detect Anomalies?

Identifying normal behavior baselines is essential to behavior-based authentication. However, with COVID-19 upending all aspects of life, is it possible to build baselines and measure normal patterns when nothing at all seems normal?