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• First Hacker Convicted of 'SIM Swapping' Attack Gets 10 Years in Prison

"A 20-year-old college student who stole cryptocurrency worth more than $5 million by hijacking victims' phone numbers has pleaded guilty and accepted a sentence of 10 years in prison.

Ortiz was arrested last year on charges of siphoning millions of dollars in cryptocurrency from around 40 victims using a method commonly known as "SIM swapping," which typically involves fraudulently porting of the same number to a new SIM card belonging to the attacker.

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• TheMoon Rises Again, With a Botnet-as-a-Service Threat

"A new module allows it to be rented to other malicious actors — and it’s likely other new capabilities are coming down the pike."

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• Attackers Can Track Kids’ Locations via Connected Watches

"A severe flaw exposes sensitive information for 35,000 kids and 20,000 individual accounts."

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• Cybersecurity Market - Detailed Analysis of Current Industry Figures with Forecasts Growth By 2024

"MarketStudyReport.com Adds New Cybersecurity Market 2018 – 2024 research report providing information and data By Product Type, By Organization, By Industry, Industry Analysis, Regional Outlook, Growth Potential, Competitive Market Share & Forecast spreading across 450 Pages with table and figures in it. "

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• Facebook Paid Teens $20 to Install 'Research' App That Collects Private Data

"If you are thinking that Facebook is sitting quietly after being forced to remove its Onavo VPN app from Apple's App Store, then you are mistaken. "

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• Europol Now Going After People Who Bought DDoS-for-Hire Services

"If you were a buyer of any online DDoS-for-hire service, you might be in trouble. After taking down and arresting the operators of the world's biggest DDoS-for-hire service last year, the authorities are now in hunt for customers who bought the service that helped cyber criminals launch millions of attacks against several banks, government institutions, and gaming industry."

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• Cyber attacks outpacing physical terror attacks

"With increasing cases of data breaches and information loss happening on the Internet, cyber attacks are outpacing physical attacks among far-left groups and can cause greater destruction, researchers say."

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• Good practices in the implementation of regulatory technical standards

"ENISA publishes today ‘Good practices in the implementation of regulatory technical standards’, a study on the implementation of the PSD2 in the 28 Member States of the European Union."

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• China Blocks Microsoft's Bing Search Engine, Despite Offering Censored Results

"China has blocked Microsoft-owned search engine Bing, the company confirmed after receiving complaints from users throughout the country who took to social media beginning late Wednesday to express concerns."

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• DHS Orders U.S. Federal Agencies to Audit DNS Security for Their Domains.

"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has today issued an "emergency directive" to all federal agencies ordering IT staff to audit DNS records for their respective website domains, or other agency-managed domains, within next 10 business days."

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• Industry reactions to Google’s €50 million GDPR violation fine

"This is the first time that the CNIL applies the new sanction limits provided by the GDPR. The amount decided and the publicity of the fine are justified by the severity of the infringements observed regarding the essential principles of the GDPR: transparency, information and consent."

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