Infosec News 20200310
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Cybersecurity Risks Soar as Coronavirus Pushes More People to Work from Home
"The federal agency in charge of issuing .gov domain names is enacting new requirements for validating the identity of people requesting them."
TLP1 : Green
"Crooks are using a new phishing technique to trick victims into accepting the installation of a security certificate update and deliver malware."
TLP1 : Green
"Cisco has released security updates to fix multiple vulnerabilities in various products, including two remote code execution flaws in Webex Player. "
TLP1 : Green
"By contrast, two web browsers share identifiers that are tied to the device hardware and so persist even across fresh installs "
TLP1 : Green
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"A researcher has found a serious vulnerability in the Facebook platform that could allow hijacking anyone’s Facebook account. For discovering this OAuth Framework flaw, Facebook awarded a hefty bug bounty to the researcher."
TLP1 : Green
"Mozilla is turning on DNS over HTTPS by default for users in the United States and is making it available for users throughout the rest of the world if they choose it. The goal is to make it more difficult for Internet service providers (ISP) and other interested third parties to know what websites people access."
"Hackers are sharing SQL databases from unsecured Amazon S3 buckets, one of them belongs to the BGR tech news site in India."
TLP1 : Green
Billions of Devices Open to Wi-Fi Eavesdropping Attacks
"The Kr00k bug arises from an all-zero encryption key in Wi-Fi chips that reveals communications from devices from Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung and others."
TLP1 : Green
"This most recent Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released an Important-rated patch to address a remote code execution bug in Microsoft Exchange Server. This vulnerability was reported to us by an anonymous researcher and affects all supported versions of Microsoft Exchange Server up until the recent patch."