InfoSec News 20181121
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Cyber Monday secrets retailers don’t want you to know
“When the Holiday season is getting closer, people tend to spend more time online than usual. Unfortunately, malware creators take advantage of the matter and create scams more actively than before. While bargains have always been attracting people, scams promising huge prizes or gifts have always been successful.[1] So, how to know what is truth and what is a lie?”
“Instagram has suffered a serious security leak that might have exposed user’s passwords, revealed The Information website. Instagram notified some of its users that it might have accidentally exposed their password due to a security glitch. According to a company spokesperson, the bug was “discovered internally and affected a very small number of people.””
“A new study finds that credit card fraud has not declined since the introduction of chip cards in the US. The majority of stolen card information comes from hacked point-of-sale terminals.”
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“Last quarter brought with it a maddening number of political ads, shocking and divisive news stories on climate change and gun laws, and mosquitoes.”
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“Another security vulnerability has been reported in Facebook that could have allowed attackers to obtain certain personal information about users and their friends, potentially putting the privacy of users of the world's most popular social network at risk.”
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“Crooks are exploiting the popularity of Elon Musk and a series of hacked verified Twitter accounts to implement a new fraud scheme.”
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“A Canadian university shut down its entire network last week in response to a cryptomining attack, highlighting the potential disruption that can be caused by this relatively new strain of malware.”
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“Microsoft, the American Multinational Technological company has taken a vow to work with US President Donald Trump as it did with Barack Obama previously on Cybersecurity. The company’s main objective behind this initiative is to protect US citizens from Cyberthreats of all range coming from hackers, groups, and adversaries.”
“The first wave of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) was squarely focused on reducing costs by reducing the need to backhaul network traffic from every branch office to a data center. In the age of the cloud, many branch offices now make use of SD-WANs to access public cloud services directly across a public internet connection. The challenge organizations are now facing is how to implement SD-WAN security.”