Good Twitter Samaritans accidentally prevent shoeshine scam

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:45:12 +0000

We take a look at how a shoeshine scam nearly took place in real life—until people online trying to help in one way, ended up assisting in quite another.

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Windows Server 2008 End of Support: Are you Prepared?

Credit to Author: Pawan Kinger (Director, Deep Security Labs)| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:42:36 +0000

On July 14th, 2015, Microsoft’s widely deployed Windows Server 2003 reached end of life after nearly 12 years of support. For millions of enterprise servers, this meant the end of security updates, leaving the door open to serious security risks. Now, we are fast approaching the end of life of another server operating system –…

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This Week in Security News: Unpatched Systems and Lateral Phishing

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:57:24 +0000

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about an attack against Elasticsearch that delivers backdoors as its payload. Additionally, read how cybercriminals are turning to hijacked accounts to perform lateral phishing attacks on…

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BlueKeep guides make imminent public exploit more likely

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:40:12 +0000

A public exploit for Microsoft’s BlueKeep vulnerability is just days away. In fact, for those with deep pockets, it’s already here.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ECYOzBCkJ4g” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Browser plug-ins peddled personal data from over 4m browsers

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:02:52 +0000

Nacho Analytics gathered data like passwords, tax and prescription data from browser add-ons – and those who bought it can keep it.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/hh3QByv2ph0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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