Google Calendar Settings Gaffes Exposes Users’ Meetings, Company Details
A configuration setting in Google Calendars does not sufficiently warn users that it makes their calendars public to all, a researcher argues.
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AuthorLindsey O Donnell
iPhone iOS 13 Lockscreen Bypass Flaw Exposes Contacts
Apple will not fix the glitch until the release of iOS 13.1 later in September.
Source: Threat Post – Mobile Security –
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North Korean Spear-Phishing Attack Targets U.S. Firms
Researchers warn that U.S. firms are being targeted with legitimate – but trojanized – documents that are often socially engineered to a tee.
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1B Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack
More than one billion mobile users are at risk from a SIM card flaw being currently exploited by threat actors, researchers warn.
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Major Groupon, Ticketmaster Fraud Scheme Exposed By Insecure Database
An exposed database containing 17 million email addresses exposed a massive fraud scheme impacting vendors like Groupon and Ticketmaster.
Source: Threat Post
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Strangest Phishing Lures of 2019: From Divorce Papers to Real Estate Decoys
Proofpoint’s senior director of the threat research team discusses the strange levels that attackers are going to in order to persuade victims to
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Adobe Fixes Critical Flash Player Code Execution Flaws
Overall Adobe’s September security update addressed vulnerabilities in Flash Player and Application Manager.
Source: Threat Post – Web Security – Adobe Fixes
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U.S. Manufacturer Most Recent Target of LokiBot Malspam Campaign
A large U.S. manufacturing company is the latest organization to be targeted with the LokiBot trojan – although this most recent campaign harbored
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Wikipedia, World of Warcraft Downed By Weekend DDoS Attacks
Wikipedia and World of Warcraft Classic users reported global outages over the weekend in targeted – and connected – DDoS attacks.
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Back-to-School Scams Target Students with Library-Themed Emails
Students should keep their eyes peeled for phishing emails purporting to be from their colleges, as well as online student resources laced with
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