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Stalkware is being installed on more and more victims' devices, and the trend is only accelerating, according to a new report. When spouses, colleagues, domestic partners, and random strangers install software to spy on a victim, the "stalkerware" can be a disturbing tool of abuse. And it's a tool that's part of a problem that is growing in size and scope. A new report, "The State of Stalkerware in 2019," from Kaspersky Lab, shows that...

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The feature will check the strength of saved passwords and alert users when they're compromised in a breach. Google is building a "password checkup" tool into its account controls to improve password habits by telling people if their passwords are weak and when they have been compromised. This marks an expansion of Google's Password Checkup browser extension, which has accumulated more than 1 million downloads and warned half of users to a compromised password since...

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FDA, DHS issue fresh warnings on easily exploitable URGENT/11 flaws in medical, SCADA systems, industrial controllers, and other devices. A substantially greater number of real-time operating systems (RTOSes) powering critical medical, industrial, and enterprise devices, are affected by a set of recently discovered security vulnerabilities than were originally reported. Armis, which earlier this year disclosed as many as 11 zero-day bugs in VxWorks RTOS—an OS embedded in over two billion devices—this week described five other...

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The cyber division of the Ukrainian police took to pieces an operation that made money by registering accounts used to send spam through various services, including email and social networks. The bot farm allowed its cybercriminal customers to buy large numbers of active accounts for multiple online services. These were then used to deliver unsolicited messages. Source: Bleeping Computer

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are suing the Associated Papers, parent company of the Daily Mail, for breach of the U.K.’s Data Protection Act of 2018 after the Mail published a private letter Markle sent to her father. The act, the U.K.’s complement to GDPR, requires protections for personal data, requiring that, among other things, it be “used fairly, lawfully and transparently; used for specified, explicit purposes; used in a way...

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The average cost of enterprise data breaches has risen to $1.41 million in 2018, up from $1.23 million in 2017, according to new research from Kaspersky. It's estimated that there have already been 4,000 data breaches in the first half of 2019, affecting four billion users' data.  But companies with internal cybersecurity (security operation center or SOC) experienced only half the financial loss, compared to those without protection from cyber attacks. Cyber attacks are both anticipated and rampant, and...

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In the last three years, almost two thirds (60 per cent) of businesses have experienced a data breach. This is according to a new global report from Bitdefender, which also adds that those that haven’t been attacked yet – expect to experience such a scenario soon. As a matter of fact, more than a third of infosec professionals (36 per cent) polled for the report, whose employers haven’t been attacked yet, believe it’s likely that they’re...

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A malicious campaign that waged 13 attacks against hundreds of well-known publishers has been identified and put down by The Media Trust.  Rather appropriately for the Halloween season, the malware was given the name GhostCat-3PC by researchers in the Trust's Digital Security & Operations (DSO) team.  GhostCat-3PC ran behind an ad that used advanced, obfuscated code and delivery patterns to evade detection by the traditional signature-based ad blockers used by many of the publishers. After a quick prowl...

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Attackers are using an obfuscated version of Adwind Remote Access Trojan for stealing data, Netskope says. An unknown threat actor is targeting companies in the US petroleum industry with a sophisticated data-stealing remote access Trojan (RAT) that previously had been used in attacks against retail and hospitality organizations. Netskope says it observed a recent spike in alerts for the malware family — the Adwind RAT — among its customers operating within the petroleum industry. Source:...

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Ten hospitals—three in Alabama and seven in Australia—have been hit with paralyzing ransomware attacks that are affecting their ability to take new patients, it was widely reported on Tuesday. All three hospitals that make up the DCH Health System in Alabama were closed to new patients on Tuesday as officials there coped with an attack that paralyzed the health network's computer system. The hospitals—DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, Northport Medical Center, and Fayette Medical...

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