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Current coverage means the last 12 months. Older reporting is preserved in the archive, with original attribution and visible publication years.

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Watch out – your unsecured database might be about to get ‘meowed’

Jul 22, 2020
Archive / originally published by www.techradar.com

www.techradar.com – 2020-07-22 23:12:20 – Source link Unsecured databases exposed on the public web are once again being targeted but…

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Windows Logon Audit Far Beyond Native Windows Security

Jul 20, 2020
Archive / originally published by securityboulevard.com

securityboulevard.com – 2020-07-20 18:05:44 – Source link Windows logon auditing is an important activity for diverse security and compliance…

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Who Pulled Off the Twitter Hack?

Jul 18, 2020
Archive / originally published by www.wired.com

www.wired.com – 2020-07-18 16:00:00 – Source link On Wednesday, an unprecedented Twitter hack saw the accounts of Elon Musk, Barack…

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Cisco routers and VPN are at risk once again

Jul 17, 2020
Archive / originally published by www.techradar.com

www.techradar.com – 2020-07-17 20:33:23 – Source link Cisco is rolling out a new security update that patches a grand total…

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Nasty Android malware attacks Facebook, Gmail and more — what to do

Jul 16, 2020
Archive / originally published by www.tomsguide.com

www.tomsguide.com – 2020-07-16 18:45:41 – Source link A new strain of Android banking malware that can steal information from an…

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Encryption-Busting EARN IT Act Advances in Senate

Jul 4, 2020
Archive / originally published by www.wired.com

Lily Hay Newman/www.wired.com – 2020-07-04 16:00:00 – Source link It’s not often that you see a new strain of Mac-targeted…

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Download NordVPN: how to install NordVPN on Windows, Mac, iOS and Android

Jul 3, 2020
Archive / originally published by www.tomsguide.com

/www.tomsguide.com – 2020-07-03 19:14:31 – Source link With over 12 million users, NordVPN is one of the most popular VPNs…

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Cisco Makes Economic Case for Cybersecurity

Jul 2, 2020
Archive / originally published by securityboulevard.com

Michael Vizard – 2020-07-02 13:18:40 – Source link Cisco Systems this week is making generally available Cisco SecureX, a free…

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Foreign adversaries likely try exploiting critical networking bug, US says

Jul 1, 2020
Archive / originally published by arstechnica.com

Dan Goodin – 2020-06-30 23:16:33 – Source link Foreign hackers backed by a well-resourced government are likely to exploit a…

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Google Removes 106 Malicious Chrome Extensions | Avast

Jun 27, 2020
Archive / originally published by securityboulevard.com

Avast Blog – 2020-06-26 21:53:47 – Source link Security researchers have discovered what they believe to be a global surveillance…

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