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Source: scmagazine.com Author: Tom Kemp The business email compromise (BEC) scam, sometimes called CEO Fraud, is an effective corporate attack where crooks use social engineering to get corporate executives to wire funds to the attackers by pretending to be a corporate executive, such as the CEO. One tech company was recently swindled out of $47 million. Another company was scammed out of $1.8 million. [ 481 more words ] https://breachiq.wordpress.com//9-steps-to-defending-again

Cybercriminals already able to hack ATM biometric readers http://www.scmagazine.com/cybercriminals-already-able-to//

Yahoo breach - at least 500 million accounts affected http://www.scmagazine.com/yahoo-breach-state-sponsored-//

Education sector bullied by ransomware and can barely defend itself http://www.scmagazine.com/education-sector-most-ransomwa//

Author: James DeLuccia, Breach-IQ's Contributing Editor & Cyber Security Expert Have you ever heard someone say - Make your password very hard to guess, complex, 8+ characters long, lower case, upper case, alphanumeric, numbers, and special characters! Phew that is a mouthful to read! This USED to be the best practice. This is all wrong. Frankly this only made sense based on how computers were set up and when Internet systems were single-use tools "long ago." [ 89 more words ] https://breachiq.wordpress.com//everything-you-heard-about

Malicious smartphone apps turn your phone into tracking device https://www.cnet.com//malicious-smartphone-apps-turn-your/

World Anti Doping Agency, another victim of Spear Phishing attack: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-37352326

New version of L0phtCrack makes cracking Windows passwords easier than ever http://www.scmagazine.com/new-version-of-l0phtcrack-make//

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Source: csoonline.com Author: Kacy Zurkus Why the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) doesn't give an accurate picture of the security risks from social media sites Easy to access, widely used, and outside of enterprise control, social media sites are gold mines for malicious actors. People share a lot of seemingly innocuous information, which is exactly the kind of data that hackers love to collect and use in phishing or spear phishing campaigns. [ 1,157 more word ] https://breachiq.wordpress.com//social-media-the-gateway-f

Chrome and Firefox address bar vulnerabilities allow spoofed URLs http://www.scmagazine.com/chrome-and-firefox-address-bar//

Everything We Know About NSO Group: The Professional Spies Who Hacked iPhones With A Single Text http://www.forbes.com//everything-we-know-about-nso-grou/

Researcher infects tech scammer with Locky for messing with his mother http://www.scmagazine.com/scammer-gets-scammed-researche//