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Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:30:50 +0000

A Magecart credit card skimmer was found injected into hundreds of counterfeit, brand-name shoe stores—a one-two punch of victimization for users first duped with fake goods then stripped of their personal data.

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Threat analysis

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December 9, 2019 admin

Please don’t buy this: smart doorbells

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 17:15:56 +0000

This holiday season, please reconsider buying smart doorbells to protect your online shipments. The cybersecurity and privacy risks are too severe.

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Please don’t buy this

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December 9, 2019 admin

A week in security (December 2 – December 8)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 16:47:06 +0000

A roundup of the previous week’s security blogs and other news, including a new ransomware, an explanation of containerization, fixing leaky buckets, jewelry heists, and more.

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A week in security

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December 6, 2019 admin

Fake Elder Scrolls Online developers go phishing on PlayStation

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 20:29:26 +0000

We take a look at a pressure-filled phishing attempt sent to players of the Elder Scrolls Online video game.

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Social engineering

Tags: elder scrolls online ESO gamers gaming gaming scams gaming security MMORPG passwords phish phishing playstation scam scammers Social Engineering

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December 5, 2019 admin

Report: Organizations remain vulnerable to increasing insider threats

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 16:00:00 +0000

The risk and challenges insider threats pose to organizations are ever present, even before tech as we know it existed. The age of digitization only made it higher and far-reaching. How has insider threats evolved over time? Where are we now in terms of mitigating insider threat risk? Are businesses really doing something about it? We answer such questions—and more—in this post.

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Awareness

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December 4, 2019 admin

Explained: What is containerization?

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:00:00 +0000

Containerization is gaining traction as a method to improve consistency, portability, and scalability without the investments required for virtualization. But is it secure?

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