Researcher: I Hacked Trump’s Twitter by Guessing Password
Trump’s weak Twitter password and lack of basic two-factor authentication protections made it shockingly simple to hack his account, Dutch security researcher Victor Gevers reported.
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Facebook, News and XSS Underpin Complex Browser Locker Attack
An elaborate set of redirections and hundreds of URLs make up a wide-ranging tech-support scam.
Microsoft Teams Phishing Attack Targets Office 365 Users
Up to 50,000 Office 365 users are being targeted by a phishing campaign that purports to notify them of a “missed chat” from Microsoft Teams.
Google said Chrome 86 will automatically block malicious notifications that may be used for phishing or malware.
Messages that threaten people to ‘vote for Trump or else’ are part of foreign adversaries’ attempts to interfere with the Nov. 3 election, according to feds.
The majority of the bugs in Cisco’s Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) and Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software can enable denial of service (DoS) on affected devices.
Over half of Oracle’s flaws in its quarterly patch update can be remotely exploitable without authentication; two have CVSS scores of 10 out of 10.
Cybercriminal gang Darkside sent $20K in donations to charities in a ‘Robin Hood’ effort that’s likely intended to draw attention to future data dumps, according to experts.
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Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Facebook and WhatsApp are top brands leveraged by cybercriminals in phishing and fraud attacks – including a recent strike on a half-million Facebook users.
