Data Breach Today

AUGUST 22, 2020

Fraudster Could Use Sites to Steal Personal Data and Send Phishing Emails FINRA, a private organization that helps self-regulate brokerage firms and exchange markets, is warning that fraudsters have recently started creating spoofed websites and domains using members' real names and images in an attempt to steal personal information and credentials.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2020

Hackers are attempting to exploit multiple vulnerabilities in the Discount Rules for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, which has 30,000+ installations. Researchers from security firm WebArx reported that Hackers are actively attempting to exploit numerous flaws in the Discount Rules for WooCommerce WordPress plugin. The list of vulnerabilities includes SQL injection, authorization flaws, and unauthenticated stored cross-site scripting (XSS) security vulnerabilities.

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 22, 2020

Plus: A top-secret iPod, Carnival ransomware, and more of the week’s top security news.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2020

Adobe has released an open-source tool, dubbed Stringlifier, that allows users to identify randomly generated strings in any plain text, it can be used to sanitize logs. Adobe has released an open-source tool, dubbed Stringlifier, which was designed to identify randomly generated strings in any plain text. The Stringlifier tool was written in Python and uses machine learning to identify sequences of random characters inserted in a normal text.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 22, 2020

DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge in 2016 showed the world what's coming -- autonomous adversaries -- and raised serious questions. How can organizations react to something that makes decisions in milliseconds? How can you still have humans in the loop when reaction time is key? And, how can organizations defend or stop something that increases its own cyber capabilities autonomously?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2020

Freepik, one of the most popular online graphic resources sites online has disclosed a security breach that impacted 8.3 Million users. Freepik, the popular website that provides high-quality free photos and design graphics, has disclosed a major security breach that impacted 8.3 Million users. Freepik says that hackers were able to steal emails and password hashes for 8.3M Freepik and Flaticon users in an SQL injection attack against the company’s Flaticon website.

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