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Credential Harvesting Is Retail Industry’s Top Threat

Why bother with new tactics and exploits when the old tricks are still effective?

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Fortinet Warns of New Auth Bypass Flaw Affecting FortiGate and FortiProxy

Fortinet has privately warned its customers of a security flaw affecting FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies that could potentially allow an attacker to perform unauthorized actions on susceptible devices. Tracked as CVE-2022-40684, the high-severity flaw relates to an authentication bypass vulnerability that could permit an unauthenticated adversary to perform arbitrary operations on

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Friday Squid Blogging: Emotional Support Squid

The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a video—”2 Hours Of Squid To Relax/Study/Work To“—with 2.4 million views. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.

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2022 State of the Threat: Ransomware is still hitting companies hard

SecureWorks found that business email compromise still generates huge revenues for cybercriminals, while cyberespionage activities tend not to change so much. The post 2022 State of the Threat: Ransomware is still hitting companies hard appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Meta Flags Malicious Android, iOS Apps Affecting 1M Facebook Users

Some 400 mobile apps have posed as legitimate software on Google Play and the Apple App Store over the past year, and were designed to steal Facebook user credentials.

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Cybersecurity Will Account for Nearly One-Quarter of AI Software Market Through 2025

A boom in artificial intelligence-powered detection and remediation tools pushes security spending to the top of the AI market, according to Forrester.

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Report: Big U.S. Banks Are Stiffing Account Takeover Victims

When U.S. consumers have their online bank accounts hijacked and plundered by hackers, U.S. financial institutions are legally obligated to reverse any unauthorized transactions as long as the victim reports the fraud in a timely manner. But new data released this week suggests that for some of the nation’s largest banks, reimbursing account takeover victims […]

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Patch Now: Fortinet FortiGate & FortiProxy Contain Critical Vuln

Fortinet issued a customer advisory urging customers to apply its update immediately.

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State Bar of Georgia Notifies Members and Employees of Cybersecurity Incident

Current and former employees and members are being offered complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services as some personal information may have been accessed.

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