Sat.Aug 17, 2019

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Capital One hacker suspected to have breached other 30 companies

Security Affairs

Federal prosecutors revealed that Paige Thompson, who was arrested after the Capital One data breach, may have hacked more than 30 other organizations. In July, Capital One, one of the largest U.S. – card issuer and financial corporation suffered a data breach that exposed personal information from 106 million Capital One credit applications. A hacker that goes online with the handle “erratic” breached the systems at Capital One and gained access to the huge trove of personal information.

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Facebook's Voice Transcripts Were More Invasive Than Amazon's

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The Capital One hacker, a Bluetooth vulnerability, and more of the week's top security news.

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Expert shows how to bypass a fix for a recently discovered Steam flaw

Security Affairs

A security researcher demonstrated how to bypass a fix released by Valve for a recently discovered Steam vulnerability re-enabling the attack. A few days ago, the security experts Matt Nelson and Vasily Kravets separately disclosed a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Stream client for Windows that can be exploited by an attacker with limited permissions to run code administrative privileges.

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Protecting accounts from credential stuffing with password breach alerting

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Protecting accounts from credential stuffing attacks remains burdensome due to an asymmetry of knowledge: attackers have wide-scale access to billions of stolen usernames and passwords, while users and identity providers remain in the dark as to which accounts require remediation. In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving protocol whereby a client can query a centralized breach repository to determine whether a specific username and password combination is publicly exposed, but without reve

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.

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Trend Micro addressed two DLL Hijacking flaws in Trend Micro Password Manager

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Trend Micro addressed 2 DLL hijacking flaws in Trend Micro Password Manager that could allow malicious actors to escalate privileges and much more. Security expert Peleg Hadar from SafeBreach discovered a DLL hijacking vulnerability in the Trend Micro Password Manager that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the most privileged account on a Windows system.