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Microsoft has decided to roll back its decision to add the Downloads folder to the Windows 10 Disk Cleanup program after receiving negative feedback from users. The Windows 10 Disk Cleanup program allows users to quickly free up hard drive space by removing unneeded files found in a variety of system locations. These locations include temporary files, the Recycle Bin, Thumbnails, old Windows Update files, etc. Source: Bleeping Computer

The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) together with state and territory partners warns businesses and people of Emotet and BlueKeep threats being active in the wild. The ACSC urges vigilance as attackers exploiting the Windows BlueKeep vulnerability have started attacking unpatched systems to infect them with coin miners. Source: Bleeping Computer

The Portland, Maine healthcare provider InterMed is informing about 30,000 patients that some of their PHI has been involved in a data breach. The facility learned on September 6, 2019 that an employee’s email account had been hacked a few days prior, which led to several other accounts also being breached between September 7-10. An investigation was started, and it was determined the attacker could have viewed emails and attachments from the accounts but it...

A cyber adversary in possession of both ransomware and point-of-sale malware was recently found to have obtained “a deep level of access” to the infrastructures of at least two targets, including a U.S.-based aluminum and stainless steel gratings company, researchers have reported. Source: SC Magazine

Yes, ransomware is plaguing businesses and government organizations, but impersonators inserting themselves into financial workflows - most often via e-mail - continue to enable big paydays. Source: Dark Reading

For the last 18 months some of Facebook’s developers have had access to private user information contained within some of the social media site’s groups. Source: SC Magazine

The Android version of the popular virtual keyboard app ai.type has attempted to make over 14 million unauthorized transactions that could have cost the users US$18 million in unwanted charges, reads a report from mobile technology firm Upstream. Source: We Live Security

Facebook has quietly revealed another privacy breach involving approximately 100 developers. On Tuesday, Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, Facebook's Director of Platform Partnerships said in a blog post that the names and profile pictures of users connected to Groups and the system's API were accessible.

Security researchers today published technical details about malware used by a new threat actor that matches a signature in a scanner likely built by the U.S. National Security Agency and leaked more than two years ago. The new threat received the name DarkUniverse and was active for at least eight years, between 2009 and 2017. It was identified last year, but the NSA knew about it long before.

Even after Brexit, the UK and Europe need to work together very closely with cybersecurity a key area, according to Michel Barnier, the chief negotiator on Brexit at the European Commission. Any new agreement between the EU and UK will be based both on trade and on ensuring mutual security, Barnier said, noting that the UK and Europe will need to cooperate against new threats -- cybersecurity in particular. "Our new partnership should include the...