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Mobile Security

Facebook Whistleblower Fears Election Abuse

Frances Haugen, who famously blew the whistle on Facebook and its susceptibility to manipulation, has renewed concerns over the social-networking company. This time, she’s laser-focused on misinformation during the 2024 presidential election ...
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Event Logging Key to Detecting LOTL Attacks, Security Agencies Say

A report by CISA, the FBI, the NSA, and international agencies lay out the argument that event logging tools help enterprises better detect attacks that rely on LOTL techniques used by threat ...
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FBI data storage devices

Audit: FBI is Losing Track of Storage Devices Holding Sensitive Data

DOJ inspectors have found the FBI is not labeling hard drives and other storage devices holding sensitive that are slated for destruction, making them hard to track, and that boxes of them ...
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Backdoor in RFID Cards for Offices, Hotels Can Lead to Instant Cloning

A backdoor found in millions of Chinese-made RFID cards that are used by hotels and other businesses around the world can let bad actors instantly clone the cards to gain unauthorized access ...
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Microsoft Google 2FA MFA Azure

Mandatory MFA is Coming to Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is making MFA mandatory for signing into Azure accounts, the latest step in the IT vendor's Secure Future Initiative that it expanded in May in the wake of two embarrassing breaches ...
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infostealer RATs Reliaquest

ReliaQuest: Watch Out for Info-Stealers and RATs

ReliaQuest ranked LummaC2 and SocGholish among the top malware seen in Q2 and rounded out the top five list with AsyncRat, Oyster, and the growing numbers of info-stealers that were built using ...
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DonkeyHotey (cc:by-sa)

Don’t Mess With Texas Privacy: AG Sues GM for $18 BILLION

KP♡TX PII: “General Motors has engaged in egregious business practices that violated Texans’ pri­vacy … in unthinkable ways,” rants state attorney general Ken Paxton (pictured) ...
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U.S. Election Meddling Iran Biden Trump

Google: Iranian Group APT42 Behind Trump, Biden Hack Attempts

Google cybersecurity researchers confirm that the Iranian-sponsored APT42 threat group is being ongoing phishing campaigns against President Biden, Vice President Harris, and ex-President Trump in an attempt to influence the upcoming presidential ...
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Hackers Use BingoMod Android RAT For Fraudulent Transactions

Recent media reports have cited cybersecurity researchers discovering a new Android remote access trojan (RAT) that’s currently referred to as BingoMod. The BingoMod Android RAT is capable of transferring funds from compromised ...

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