Report Looks at COVID-19’s Massive Impact on Cybersecurity

Market NewsBy Product_Team September 16, 2020

Cynet’s report shares several interesting data points and findings, such as the cyberattack volume change observed in various industry sectors, the increased use of spearphishing as an initial attack vector, and the approaches being used to distribute malware in spearphishing attacks.

Bluetooth Spoofing Bug Affects Billions of IoT Devices

Market NewsBy Product_Team September 16, 2020

The ‘BLESA’ flaw affects the reconnection process that occurs when a device moves back into range after losing or dropping its pairing, Purdue researchers said.

Data Breaches Exposes Vets, COVID-19 Patients

Market NewsBy Product_Team September 16, 2020

Social engineering and employee mistakes lead to breach Veteran’s Administration and the National Health Service.

Impact of Instagram privacy and security changes on WatchGuard Wi-Fi Cloud

Market NewsBy Product_Team September 16, 2020

Impact of Instagram privacy and security changes on WatchGuard Wi-Fi Cloud mterry Tue, 09/15/2020 – 14:06 Categories: Wi–Fi Dear Wi-Fi Cloud User, WatchGuard values the privacy of everyone’s personal data, and we take steps to ensure security and data privacy throughout our products and company infrastructure. Instagram recently announced changes to their API usage to improve…

QR Codes Serve Up a Menu of Security Concerns

Market NewsBy Product_Team September 16, 2020

QR code usage is soaring in the pandemic — but malicious versions aren’t something that most people think about.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Security Open to RCE

Market NewsBy Product_Team September 16, 2020

Two bugs (CVE-2020-4703 and CVE-2020-4711) in IBM’s Spectrum Protect Plus data-storage protection solution could enable remote code execution.

Windows Exploit Released For Microsoft ‘Zerologon’ Flaw

Market NewsBy Product_Team September 16, 2020

Security researchers and U.S. government authorities alike are urging admins to address Microsoft’s critical privilege escalation flaw.

MFA Bypass Bugs Opened Microsoft 365 to Attack

Market NewsBy Product_Team September 15, 2020

Vulnerabilities ‘that have existed for years’ in WS-Trust could be exploited to attack other services such as Azure and Visual Studio.

Feds Warn Nation-State Hackers are Actively Exploiting Unpatched Microsoft Exchange, F5, VPN Bugs

Market NewsBy Product_Team September 15, 2020

Monday’s CISA advisory is a staunch reminder for federal government and private sector entities to apply patches for flaws in F5 BIG-IP devices, Citrix VPNs, Pulse Secure VPNs and Microsoft Exchange servers.

Cloud Leak Exposes 320M Dating-Site Records

Market NewsBy Product_Team September 15, 2020

A misconfigured, Mailfire-owned Elasticsearch server impacted 70 dating and e-commerce sites, exposing PII and details such as romantic preferences.

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