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A cloud misconfig by SocialArks exposed 318 million records gleaned from Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. More than 400GB of public and private profile data for 214 million social-media users from around the world has been exposed to the internet – including details for celebrities and social-media influencers in the U.S. and elsewhere. The leak stems from a misconfigured ElasticSearch database owned by Chinese social-media management company SocialArks, which contained personally identifiab...

minute read Share this article: Researchers at Recorded Future report a rise in cracked Cobalt Strike and other open-source adversarial tools with easy-to-use interfaces. Simple to use and deploy offensive security tools, making it easier than ever for criminals with little technical know-how to get in on cybercrime are seeing a significant rise, researchers say. Recorded Future just released findings from its regular year-end observations of malicious infrastructure, identifying m...

minute read Share this article: Major browsers get an update to fix separate bugs that both allow for remote attacks, which could potentially allow hackers to takeover targeted devices. Makers of the Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers are urging users to patch critical vulnerabilities that if exploited allow hackers to hijack systems running the software. The Mozilla Firefox vulnerability (CVE-2020-16044) is separate from a bug reported in Google’s browser engine Chromium, which...

minute read Share this article: The agency said the malware has already compromised more than 150 organizations and provided insight into its ransomware-as-a-service behavior. The FBI has alerted companies in the private sector to a spate of attacks using the Egregor ransomware. The malware currently is raging a warpath across businesses worldwide and has already compromised more than 150 organizations. The agency issued an advisory (PDF) that also shed new light and identifies the...

The NSA released new guidance providing system administrators with the tools to update outdated TLS protocols. The National Security Agency (NSA) is lighting a fire under system administrators who are dragging their feet to replace insecure and outdated Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol instances. The agency this week released new guidance and tools to equip companies to update from obsolete older versions of TLS (TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1) to newer versions of the protocol (TLS 1.2 or TLS 1.3)...

Ehsaas to invite hackers to identify digital security vulnerabilities Islamabad December 31, 2020 Islamabad : Ehsaas will be organising a hackers’ competition, inviting ethical hackers to outline its vulnerabilities as part of implementation of a Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (VDP) that is intended to give ethical hackers clear guidelines for submitting potentially unknown and harmful security vulnerabilities. The PM’s Special Assistant Dr. Sania Nishtar shared this information Wednesda...

This country from coronavirus. and the numbers, weve said it so often, these are not just numbers, theyre american lives lost. tonight, the toll passed the 100,000 mark. the searing images that led to this moment. the early scenes, crowded emergency rooms, the shocking vulnerabilities revealed at facilities across the country. and of course the heartbreak for so many americans dying alone. their loved ones not allowed into the hospital because of fears of spreading the virus. tonight, as the cou...

Lasted three hours. >> jason young was a very good witness. he understood what he had to do when he was on the stand. >> reporter: so he didnt come off as contrived or phony? like he had put this together very carefully in order to account for all of the evidence that they had? >> he had access to police reports. all of the discovery. he knew the states vulnerabilities. and so he could arguably tailor his testimony to fit with an innocent explanation. >> reporter: how did jason young do? 12 juro...

Discussion, because it is so true. and i have been saying, just looking at the women alone, how different they have approached the campaign in talking about their own vulnerabilities. even four years ago, hillary clinton. but were going to talk broadly. its not just about women, about both genders, but look at elizabeth warren and listen to what she said about what she was saying to her mother when she was a teenager and she was getting married. >> she wanted me to marry well, and i really tried...

It if you have to. the key is with deterring it. they want to raise the cost for actors with fingers on keyboards, pull e-mails and documents and financial records to show disloyalty, corruption, other malfeasance they would be threatened with having exposed. i dont think you will see messing around with actual finances, the banking system. >> what happens then? >> that raises the stakes for the whole world really with respect to showing there are vulnerabilities in the financial system. >> i se...